Designing Futures

In this episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by Katie Dill, head of design at Stripe. Katie is a design executive with a history of building outstanding teams and delivering impactful products with experiences that span from industrial, service, and digital design, to UX and business strategy. She was also named one of Fast Company’s “Most creative people in business”. Katie shares her thoughts and experience as a female leader in design - From the various traits leadership requires and why women are a great fit for those roles, her upbringing playing a part, and what inspires her to be a leader. Ang and Katie discuss the impact of design being connective tissue within organizations and strategies to maintain that status such as design systems and other techniques like a shared slide deck with status updates to help improve efficiency and transparency across various divisions or departments. Katie also compared and contrasted the different environment and workflow between her consultancy and corporate journey respectively and the different vantage points associated with each as well as the importance to the physicality of design and creative pursuits that shifted due to the remote culture brought in by the pandemic. Lastly, she discussed her “why” in raising her young children and motherhood.

In this episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by Michael DiTullo, a dear friend of hers and the founder and creative chief director of Michael DiTullo LLC. Michael has created iconic and innovative products and brand experiences for companies that want to disrupt their categories and impact culture. He’s skilled in brand positioning, innovation strategy, product roadmapping, industrial design packaging, and OOBE while covering categories like retail experience, interior architecture, robotics, footwear, and many more. Michael shares his thoughts on brand consistency and running his own business but spoke on the path he took to get to that point. He spoke on the various leadership positions he held from Nike to Frog and other companies and building an incredible body of work and deciding it was time to work for himself. They talk about how design is a trust based industry and how there are many portfolios and aesthetics that seem to be the same as everybody else’s now compared to the years prior which prevents risk taking for most, where Michael explains how his independent practice charges a premium for unique results. Angela and Michael discuss the impact of the pandemic on the design and his relationship with clients post pandemic, how they should be in agreement that they’re going to have to try stuff. Michael also speaks about the differences he notices in being an “intrepreneur” versus an entrepreneur, being on the corporate side of design but also what it takes to run a successful consultancy. Finally, they discuss Michael’s mindset/ outlook and how he sees himself as less of simply an “expert” and more as someone who is “here to help move things forward.”

Picking up from our last episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by Scot Herbst, a creative design director of Herbstprodukt, and his father, Walter Herbst, the founder and former CEO of Herbst LaZar Bell and currently COO of Herbestprodukt.

Scot and Walter share their ‘WFB’ experience - their “Work From Boat” work-style. Walter tells us about his journey through the historical and cultural movements of the Industrial Design Industry, and the ebbs and flows of sustaining a design career over the last 40 years. Scot discusses following his dad’s footsteps in design and working at Herbstprodukt - a design, brand, and strategy consulting agency with internal design teams based in Silicon Valley.

We discuss Walter’s contributions to the education of the Industrial Design field - creating the Master’s degree in Product Design and Development Management program at Northwestern University, where he is currently a director and professor of the program.

Stay tuned for Walter’s book called “No Excuses Innovation” coming out in August this summer!

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For this episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by Scot Herbst, a creative design director of Herbstprodukt, and his father, Walter Herbst, the founder and former CEO of Herbst LaZar Bell and currently COO of Herbst Produkt.

Scot and Walter share their ‘WFB’ experience - their “Work From Boat” work-style. Walter tells us about his journey through the historical and cultural movements of the Industrial Design Industry, and the ebbs and flows of sustaining a design career over the last 40 years. Scot discusses following his dad’s footsteps in design and working at Herbstprodukt - a design, brand, and strategy consulting agency with internal design teams based in Silicon Valley.

We discuss Walter’s contributions to the education of the Industrial Design field - creating the Master’s degree in Product Design and Development Management program at Northwestern University, where he is currently a director and professor of the program.

Join us next week for Pt.2!

Stay tuned for Walter’s book called “No Excuses Innovation” coming out in August this summer!

Learn more about:

Scot HerbstatLinkedin
Walter HerbstatLinkedin
Herbst Produkt atherbstprodukt.com

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In this episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by long-time friend Howard Nuk, creative leader, entrepreneur, board advisor, and co-founder of the new Palm.

He shares stories about taking on new challenges, launching new products, rebranding and running his company, and learning from the best in various design disciplines. Howard discusses the importance of keeping a balance between following one's passion for inspiring the world and understanding users and their experiences, developing and reporting back to them as product designers.

“The world benefits from people like us taking on risks and challenges because we’re the types of people who are designing the next world for everyone.” Howard Nuk co-founded the San Francisco-based startup Palm Ventures Group with a mission to disrupt the mobile industry and re-invent the Palm brand. In November of 2018, they launched the new Palm and the world’s first companion smartphone (also named Palm) with exclusive partner, Verizon.

Prior to Palm, Howard was Vice President of Design at Samsung Design America and Vice President of Industrial Design at Ammunition. Howard also shares a story of his own company called Palm Ventures, a San Francisco-based startup company with a mission to disrupt the mobile industry and re-invent the Palm brand, known as a tiny smartphone and earbuds. He talks about the difficulties of being a product designer and leading the company as a co-founder at the same time.

Learn more about Howard Nuk at Linkedin and Palm’s New Earbud Pro at palm.com

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In this episode of Designing Futures, Angela Yeh is joined by Ginger Dhaliwal, co-founder of Upflex, who shares the inspiration behind Upflex's shared workspaces, the "Future of Work" moving from designated offices to revitalized, shared office spaces, and their recent partnership with WeWork.

They discuss the importance of in-person collaboration and balance of remote work, allowing flexibility to working professionals now and in the future... no matter where they choose to live. Ginger Dhaliwal is the Co-Founder & CPO of Upflex, a B2B SaaS platform for on-demand, flexible & safe workspaces.

Upflex strives to make businesses more efficient & sustainable while giving employees access to a global network of workspaces — including ones close to home. They are one provider for access to the leading coworking and flexible workspaces globally. “Workspaces when and where your team needs them.”

In the past month, coworking and flex space operators across Ukraine have pivoted to help connect their war-torn communities with urgently needed resources — from shelter and food and medicine to power generators and protective gear. Join us and other partners behind #WithinUkraine and send your support. Create or use your Upflex account to book a desk and support them instantly, or visit their websites for other ways to help.

Learn more about Ginger DhaliwalatLinkedinandUpflex atupflex.com

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In this episode of Designing Futures, Angela is joined by her great friend Inna Alesina, a Ukrainian born designer and educator, where they discussed how design can impact almost every aspect of society no matter how big or small it may be.

With years of design practicing and design teaching experience, Inna considers herself a maker and a thinker, a learner and a teacher. She thinks systematically as well as considers small details. She believes her role is to engage people and to protect ecology.

Multidisciplinary designer Inna was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, where she studied industrial design. She continued her studies at Parsons School of Design and later at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work spans many disciplines and media including object design, performance wear, communication design, ergonomics, and most recently food systems.

Inna is always looking for new areas to apply her design thinking. Her works have won numerous awards and recognition by the press. She also holds dozens of patents for her inventions.

At the moment, you can find Inna at Stevenson University as a Associate Professor and a faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art. While thriving in the education field, she is still running her own practice.

Find out more about Inna on:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inna-alesina-98b4291/

- Website: http://alesinadesign.com/

In this episode, Lauryn Menard of PROWL Studio joins Angela Yeh as they discuss why the future of design is almost completely dependent on the new generation of consumers who are more aware and knowledgeable about sustainability and ethical production of consumer products.

She is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of PROWL, a full service design studio that offers strategic insight through their unique trademarked Progress Projections Process, Design Strategy, and Industrial and Material Design. Lauryn also is Chair of IDSA's Women in Design SF chapter.

Connect with Lauryn on:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauryn-menard/
• PROWL Studio Website: https://www.prowlstud.io/
• PROWL Studio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prowl__/

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For the month of March, we are celebrating Women's History Month by featuring women who have made an impact and are pioneering in the field of the male-dominated industry of design.

In this episode, Angela Yeh is joined by Vicki Matranga of International Housewares Association (IHA). Vicki created IHA's infamous Student Design Competition in 1993 which has launched thousands of careers and has had over 5,000 students participate since it began.

Vicki shares with Angela several success stories of students who have competed in the competition and have now found themselves thriving in the design industry. She also talks about a couple pioneering women who has paved the way for women designers today.

Ever since Vicki was young, she had a fascination in not only design but also the history of it. Vicki is the author of America at Home: A Celebration of Twentieth-Century Housewares,a book published in 1997,which presented a unique cultural perspective on the evolution of household products in relation to lifestyles, women, technology, and retailing. She has written essays for historical encyclopedias and museum catalogues. She wrote sections ofThe Alliance of Art and Industry: Toledo Designs for a Modern America, published by the Toledo Museum of Art in 2002. She interpreted Chicago’s industrial design legacy forThe Encyclopedia of Chicago, editedDesign Chronicles, a 2005 book written by Carroll Gantz, and assisted in the development of the 2006 autobiography of designer Charles Harrison,A Life’s Design.

Vicki delivers lectures on housekeeping history to varied audiences, appears on television, and is often quoted in print media about consumer trends. She was also awarded by IDSA its honorary membership “in recognition and gratitude for special efforts to enhance the public’s appreciation of industrial design.”

Connect with Vicki:

• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-victoria-matranga-6aa8912/

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"The pace of material innovation has increased rapidly. So, it's hard to keep up as well. That's another thing for designers - they have to keep up with the material innovation."

Welcome back to the second season of Designing Futures!

We're kicking it off with an amazing first episode featuring Sarah D'Sylva of hyloh.where she discusses with Angela her life as a new mother while running her company as well as how designers are shifting into having sustainable material at the core of their design process with innovation in mind.

Sarah mentions that her view on design has changed the moment she had her daughter because now she looks at design with a higher purpose because whatever product the industry releases today will predict the world that her child will have in the future.

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Sarah is one of the three female co-founders of hyloh, who work to accelerate the circular economy. Responsible for gathering insights and imagining prospective solutions, Sarah helps brands navigate the most advanced transition of material innovation in history; eliminating waste and regenerating our environment.

With professional experience in Industrial Design, Design Strategy, CMF Design, and Eco-Design, Sarah spans science, sociology, sustainability, and scalability when it comes to materials and design. She uses the craft of storytelling to translate complicated information into satiable opportunities for growth.

Connect with Sarah:

• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-d-sylva-75052b57/

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