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#310 - Teamwork makes the dream work

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pranathi Vangeepuram is a Software Engineer with over 16 years of experience. A passionate technologist  who likes to think out of the box and chal...

#309 - Be the change you want to see

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Torpea joined Mastercard in February of 2017 as a UX contractor. Prior to Mastercard, he was an Interactive Art Director at Ansira Engagemen...

#308 - Be able to speak for yourself

26 Dec 2022

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Sean Brown, a creative designer with over 20 years of experience in digital, interactive, and web design; a thought leader in digital content and stor...

#307 - You learn by being Curious

19 Dec 2022

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Milton Jackson was a native of Jamaica and was raised in Hartford, Connecticut. He holds a B.S. in History and Social Sciences from Eastern Connecticu...

#306 - Fail forward is the way to winning

19 Dec 2022

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Rachel is an Executive Director of UX & Design at Vericast. Her passion is mentoring designers and building solid UX foundations with a research-based...

#305 - Importance of Human Centric Design in Healthcare

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amy West is the Head of US Digital Transformation & Innovation at Novo Nordisk. Her work in the direct response engagements gave her a great skill ...

#304 - The Beauty of Simplification

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vipin Maheshwary, User Experience Leader at Salesforce joins the show to share his journey of becoming a UX designer. What he loves about this work, t...

#303 - Transform, Innovate and Deliver with human centric empathy!

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Suma Kumaraswamy is an innovative & collaborative digital transformation leader with several patents, accolades to her credit. An industry leader who ...

#302 - What's your Relationship Credit?

24 Nov 2022

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Ramesh Aki is the Vice President, Digital Solutions and Engineering at Ameriprise Financial Services. "I don't like that man, I must get to know him b...

#301 - Leveraging diversity to carry out transformations at scale

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Scutari, Global Senior Director, Finance Digital Transformation at Kimberly-Clark joins us to share how his passion for playing Rugby for 12 y...

#300 - Fail quickly, fail often

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Raghav Singh has over twenty years of experience in product management leadership. He currently is a Director of Product Management at Salesforce and ...

#299 - Innovation is a space for an organization to place calculated debts on the future

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A data, analytics, and technology executive with experience building products and partnerships with some of the top organizations across media, insura...

#298 - If you want to get to a destination, you have to go through the journey

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vishal Gupta is Senior Vice President, CIO and CTO for Lexmark International. He leads global information technology, software development, data scien...

#297 - The Human side of Innovation, the power of people in love with people

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo's first-ever Chief Design Officer. He joined the food & beverage corporation in 2012 and in said role he is infusing design t...

#296 - Failures can be a bigger step for bigger goals.

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael is a Product Design leader and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in high tech working in various sectors including eCommerce, telecom, ...

#295 - Designing Happiness Over and Over

28 Oct 2022

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Steve Tatham, Executive Creative Director at Universal Creative, Imagineer's one of the most prolific minds who also made to 2021 Blooloop Top 50 The...

#294 - Be cognizant on how you design an environment

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anusha Dwivedula is a technologist with an experience in leading global engineering and product teams. She is currently a director of product for the ...

#293 - Failures are a stepping stone towards opportunities

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ramya Ramanathan is a Senior Vice President at Marsh McLennan, the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, where she leads digital strategy...

#292 - Experience Design within the Digital realm

18 Oct 2022

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Spyridon is a creative problem solver, innovator, and solutionist with experience consulting for financial institutions, lifestyle brands, and large e...

#291 - Baking Tech, Creativity & Business to Craft Products

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Nichols is the Vice President Of Product Management at Genesys. He shares his non-linear journey from networking to logistics to communications ...

#290 - Owning our stories

13 Oct 2022

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Tamila Fathi is a Cybersecurity & Technology Executive and #15 in Top100 Women in Fintech Magazine - 2022 joins us to share examples of what was consi...

#289 - Clear Vision and Strategy Empowers People to be Creative

10 Oct 2022

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Christian is a product leader and former founder who has spent his career in product roles at startups and scale-ups. He was the founder and CEO of Us...

#288 - Accepting a mistake is the first step towards correcting it

07 Oct 2022

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Nishant Pandey is the Global Product Manager at JLL Technologies and manages a suite of technology products in the Commercial Real Estate space. Nisha...

#287 - It's okay to not know everything

28 Sep 2022

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Jonathan Barnett, Senior Director, Customer & User Experience at AmerisourceBergen, a leading global healthcare company, with a foundation in pharmac...

#286 - You can Frame the Conversations to get Things.

26 Sep 2022

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Starting her career off in the fashion industry, Michelle Cohen had no idea that her career would be so varied. She has relished all of the opportunit...

#285 - Don't jump to solutioning, listen first!

20 Sep 2022

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Geetha Vidhyadhar, Director of Product Management at Accolades, a Personalized Healthcare company that puts humanity back in healthcare for employees ...

#284 - How do you deliver an aircraft in a week?

20 Sep 2022

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Alan Hohn, Director, External Outreach and Software Strategy has been a leader at Lockheed Martin for the past 25 years delivering mission-critical so...

#283 - Getting a paycheck for a hobby

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fumi is the Vice President, Experience Design from PNC joins us to share his unique journey that kicked off from a passion to solve human problems and...

#282- Power of Networking

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kendall leads the Rider & Maps UX Research team at Uber, where she and her team work to uncover insights about our users & identify strategies to deli...

#281 - Leading transformations with Empathy

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Forward thinking Senior leader passionate about capturing business opportunities through digital solutions and delivering global complex projects to F...

#280 - Stumbling upon difficult things and failing is the ultimate stairway to success.

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jesus is a technologist with decades of experience leading engineering and product teams for organizations that range from early-stage startups to lar...

#279 - Keeping our highways safe by taking out unsafe vehicles

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pavan Pidugu is a Chief Technology Officer at FMCSA delivering the world's leading transportation system, serving the American people and economy thr...

#278 - Simplicity is the best UI

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neha Pahwa is the Director of UX Design, currently working at ADP in New York City. She believes in designing clean and simple interfaces, which bring...

#277 - Sustainable IT Practices

05 Sep 2022

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Niklas Sundberg, Chief Information Officer for a Global Swedish Manufacturing company ASSA Abloy and a board member for the non-profit organization S...

#276 - Emotion leads to Motion.

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lan Tran is a learning strategist, experience designer, and technologist with over 20 years of experience in the learning and technology industries. S...

#275 - Weaving small great experiences to create huge transformations

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sovdeep Das is a Sr. Director of Product at Fiserv, a global leader in payments and financial technology. Serving millions of clients globally in ar...

#274 - Creativity and Fun in Design

29 Aug 2022

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Li Zeng is the Senior Product Designer at Carta, She is a Silicon Valley based designer and entrepreneur. She creates end-to-end digital experience. C...

#273 - What fuels the fire of creating great designs ?

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Vitale, Executive Vice President of Design at Rocket Companies, the nation's #1 mortgage lender, joins us in this episode. He leads a team focuse...

#272 - Practical Tools for Uxers

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here is an insightful conversation with Greg Nudelman, Head of Design & Senior Director at Logic Monitor, who is committed to expanding what's possibl...

#271 - Simplicity in Design

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Preston is currently Vice President of Design for Intuit. Joe leads teams by being hopelessly in love with design and gets energy through help...

#270 - Failures can be gateways to new opportunities

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carter Reue is Senior Director at Coupa, a cloud platform service provider for business spend management (BSM), empowering companies around the world...

#269 - Curiosity and Mentorship in Design

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Director in product development who loves to create products that help solve customers' pain points. In over 14 years of technology experience, I have...

#268 - Breaking silos together

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jasmine Ahmed is the Global Head of Finance Transformation at News Corp, a global, media and information services company focused on creating and dist...

#267 - Spend the time to know your people

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alvin Cho, Vice President of Engineering and Product, Digital Innovation & Transformation at Fiserv, a leading global technology provider serving the ...

#266 - Security as a design partner not an afterthought

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Moore, is the Chief Product Security Officer at Staples who is focused on bringing the security at Staples up a notch by being a key partner a...

#265 - Failing is the best way to learning

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sindre is a design leader at Ticketmaster. Having spent the last 12 years in various industries, Sindre has focused his career on using design as a pr...

#264 - Transforming Digital Operations

12 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A data, analytics and technology executive with experience building products and partnerships with some of the top organizations across media, insuran...

#263 - Taking the customer experience to the last mile

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We had an intriguing chat with Varun Sood, Director of Product - B2B Payments at American Express. His unique skill set is a combination of early lear...

#262 - Weekly sprints to recraft your life!

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to finding the right fit, we all have to go on a journey to reflect and identify what is it we really really want to feel successful pr...

#261 - Delight vs Efficiency

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mitul Bhat, Director Of Product Design at VMware joins us for an intriguing talk about how he is showcasing the value of product design principles acr...

#260 - A home for living, working, schooling and more

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Pratik Dhebri, Vice President, Head of Product Management at AvalonBay Communities, which is an apartment living experience provider focused on develo...

#259 - Designing with care in Healthcare

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kelsey Buhr, Manager of Design and Innovation at Marshfield Clinic Health System, brings her interesting journey from an administrative role to leadin...

#258 - Stories from the Field: Building Out the Experience Design Practice

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we chatted with Andrew Lindsay and learned about his approach towards building out design teams and integrating them across organizations at dif...

#257 - How design can help conquer cancer

14 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Fallai is a Senior Director at Exact Sciences where he leads the Experience Design Team. Best known for creating the Colorectal Cancer Detection ...

#256 - Improving the plane, while flying the plane!

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Brereton, Chief Product Officer at Sidebench, a design and development studio based in LA focused on Climate-Tech & Health-Tech, joins us ...

#255 - Bringing Humanity to Banking

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Ferrell, MVP, Head of Design for Card & Bank, Capital One joins us to share about what got him interested in creating memorable consumer experi...

#254 - Design as a strategic partner

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jenna Date is the Chief Experience Officer for Hospital and Health Systems at Altera (formerly known as Allscripts). Jenna's life mission is to Lead D...

#253 - Where does the "knowledge" live today?

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brant Cooper, is the CEO and Founder at Moves the Needle, an agency that ignites entrepreneurial action within large organizations by educating, enab...

#252 - The winning duo of Data and Design

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Vishal Kapoor is the Head of Product, Data & Innovation at Prospection, a Pioneer in healthcare data analytics. His team brings insights that help pha...

#251 - If garments could tell a story, what would I want my outfit to say?

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Colarossi, Vice President, Product Line Management, Innovation and Sustainability at Avery Dennison joins the Fail Faster show to share his belie...

#250 - Driving daily transformations towards rich customer experience globally

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Veena Dandapani SVP, Global Head Product Strategy & Management at Western Union joins us to share her journey of falling in love with amazing possibi...

#249 - User interactions are like unwrapping a gift!

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Miranda is the Director of Design at Red Ventures, a world-class intelligence/analytics company making it easier for people to find informatio...

#248 - Are you being yourself at work?

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Swymer is the business and life strategist and a leader at Splunk, powering the enterprise to help tens of thousands of organizations turn data in...

#247 - Only designers can polish designers

14 Apr 2022

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Albert Wang, Director of Product Design at Bloomreach, a Commerce experience provider empowering brands to deliver hyper personalized customer experie...

#246 - Measuring engagement using metaverse of work

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Frederick, Principal AWH shares about his newest product creations that enable multi-sensory experiences using metaverse for work environments. H...

#245 - How to PM Your Career

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Weingart returns to our show to build on his last topic "How to PM Your Life", this time focusing on treating your career as a product, and manag...

#244 - Reducing pollution in software design

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Milliken, VP - Global Head of Accessibility at Atos. Atos is a global leader in digital transformation. Neil shares what accessibility in design...

#243 - Nobody fails like a winner fails

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Troy Azmoon, Vice President, Platform and Product Design at ServiceNow joins me to share his intriguing journey through Engineering, Product, and Des...

#242 - There is always room for more customer interaction in every business

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Kesner, Senior Director of Product Management - Common Retail Services at Cox Automotive, joins us to share his approach and techniques he loves ...

#241 - What is this UX research stuff?

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sal Bolaños is the Director of UX & Design at TransUnion. He shares some of his epic failures as a new Design practitioner who is trying to shake ...

#240 - The product is for your user NOT you!

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Eduardo D'Oracio de Almeida, is the Director of Engineering Innovation at BrandSafway joins us to share his amazing journey of embracing problems as o...

#239 - New Feature vs Better Performance of a Popular Feature

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mohit Goenka is the Director of Engineering at Yahoo. Mohit leads the Yahoo Mail Android app team, he shares the golden rules of managing a global te...

#238 - Take your time to frame the problem

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rene Insam is the Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Solutions, Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley. He brings a thought-provoking perspective ...

#237 - Your competition is the last best experience your customer has had

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Shivale, Director, Head of Product Strategy & Growth at Avant shares the importance of being mindful and looking at what really matters in life a...

#236 - Translating service design into business outcomes

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Kwon is the Senior Director of Product Design at BlackLine, a software development company enabling companies modernize accounting operations w...

#235 - The magic of having a great team of specialists

17 Mar 2022

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Beth Seaman, Vice President, Product Experience at Entertainment Partners joins us to give us a glimpse of her exciting day at work as she leads high ...

#234 - Making Healthcare an ongoing conversation rather than a stressful episodic occurrence

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Witenko, System Director of Virtual Health and Telemedicine at Lee Health engages with us to share his hugely inspiring career and life story...

#233 - What does it sound like when you change your mind?

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Thomas, Lead Product Manager at SmartRecruiters joins us to share the three key questions Product designers need to ask the stakeholders to keep ...

#232 - Value of accuracy for today's Traveller

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Jaehn, Vice President: Product Strategy & Operations at Arrivia, a travel organization with a mission to help people around the world travel bett...

#231 - Would you trade a high paying job for a less paying more flexible job?

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Kedzierski is the Chief Learning Officer at HumanWRKS providing Industry 5.0 solutions and strategies based on learning science and human-centri...

#230 - Work for a start-up at least once

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lata Ahuja is the Senior Director of Engineering at CarGurus, engineering a better car-shopping experience using technology and data analytics. Lata...

#229 - Learn, dialogue and play your way into the Metaverse

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandy Carter SVP and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains, Sandy's mission is to onboard the world onto the decentralized web by building blockchain-b...

#228 - The limitless world of learning

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tosin Aje-Adegbite is the senior director of product management at EAB. EAB is an education management organization with a mission to empower educatio...

#227 - Who is the right employer for you today?

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Neetika Bansal is the Head of Engineering, Money Movement at Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Neetika shares what it takes ...

#226 - What would you choose - A small great experience or a crappy big one?

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Milan Kocic is the Head of Sixth Sense - an open innovation platform at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. A global leader in digital reality solutio...

#225 - Innovation is a balance sheet

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Darren Thayre, is the Head of Innovation focused on global strategic initiatives at Google building long-term Digital Transformation Partnerships acro...

#224 - Sometimes customers don't need a full Enchilada!

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shivani Aneja, Sr Director Exp Design & Content Strategy at EPAM, a global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digit...

#223 - Be a little childish

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cory Warfield is the Chief Connection Officer at Cory Connects - the forward thinking tech-forward organization helping many thousands worldwide upski...

#222 - What does customer-delight look like?

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Samantha Berg, Head Of Design at Chime, one of the fastest-growing financial technology companies in the U.S., offering banking services that are help...

#221 - Unpacking Design Ops

25 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ruizhi Liu, Sr. Lead Experience Designer at Travelers insurance joins us to share his journey from an industrial product designer to an Experience De...

#220 - Stop and take a breath before you push again!

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Abraham Doris-Down, Senior Director of UX and Visual Design at Boston Globe Media Partners. BGMP is New England's largest news gathering organization,...

#219 - An approach to landing an amazing career in Design

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Auldyn Matthews is the Associate Director of UX at Phreesia. Phreesia is a platform service provider across Administrative, financial and clinical ope...

#218 - Everyone deserves nothing less than a 20/20 vision

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Arun Gulani is the Founding Director and Chief Surgeon at Gulani Vision Institute, a state-of-the-art eye care facility. This episode feels li...

#217 - Smaller iterations towards big leaps

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shay Isdale is the Director Of User Experience at Athenahealth, a team innovating healthcare, optimizing financial performance and delivering high-qua...

#216 - Being open is more important than being right!

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chien Kui is the Senior Director of Engineering at Oscar Health. An organization committed to utilizing technology, design and data to humanize healt...

#215 - Observe what people like and fast forward that just a little!

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Leake is the senior VP and Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer at RPA, a modern ad agency with a People First perspective. Tim truely embrac...

#214 - The beautiful office on 5th Ave doesn't matter anymore!

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Ringel is the Global CEO at Meet the People, a next-generation advertising company focused on transparency, talent and integration. Tim combines...

#213 - Making your consumers' attention count every day!

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Ore Chief Product Officer at Insider, the global digital media organization behind Insider, Business Insider, Markets Insider, and Insider Intell...

#212 - Are you articulating your failures to set yourself up for success next time?

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Teresa Wu is the Vice President of Innovation and Client Engagement at IDEMIA, a global leader in digital identity solutions, and a trusted partner in...

#211 - Create what makes your Culture

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Rosenzweig is Senior Director of Digital Transformation and User Experience at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, a Global legal firm committed to inno...