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Designer & Designer is a podcast about design. Each episode dives into a design topic with candor and humor, exposing the rarely talked about challenges that designers face, and what it takes to create great design.
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Growth
with Guest
In this special 50th episode, Brian and Joe reflect on growth — personal, professional, and creative. They discuss how designers evolve, the complexities of growth ladders, leadership authenticity, the fading era of traditional product design, and what might come next.
Prompts vs Pixels
with Guest
Part practical deep dive, part existential crisis, Joe and Brian provide Part 2 of our season opener "AI-ay-ay" and get tactical about the tools reshaping their workflows while wrestling with the bigger picture of our AI-obsessed industry. They dissect why every AI interface looks like the same damn
Mini Episode: Zuckerberg, AI, and the Long Game
with Guest
In this special mini episode, Joe & Brian discuss their dismay with the recent hard right turn of big tech before providing a light at the tunnel for creatives.
Big Rooms, Small Rooms
with Guest
Social platform algorithms that reward outrage. UX patterns that reward commerce. AI content that rewards... other AI? Where are the healthy places to communicate on the internet anymore? We talk to internet activist, archivist, optimist and yes, the inventor of the pop-up ad, Ethan Zuckerman, who p
Presenting Design
with Guest
How we present, how do we present ourselves? How do we talk about our work? How do we sell our work? Joe and Brian dive into design's greatest paradox: we're obsessed with pixel-perfect Figma files but stumble when explaining why anyone should care. They get real about swagger, theater, an
The Burn Book
with Guest
This week Brian & Joe decide to throw their format out the window and just bitch and moan for a half hour on the internet. Middle aged white guys complaining? We got you covered, fam. 👋
