James Bridle explores the importance of having agency in the complex systems in which we live.

Vanity Fair’s visual director Clinton Cargill on looking at photography with intent.

DIA Principle and Creative Director Mitch Paone on the parallels between jazz and design practice.

Designer and professor Molly Wright Steenson on lessons from the early foundations of AI.

How four teams harnessed Material’s components and code to craft award-winning experiences.

Exploring the intersection of expression and utility in fashion design.

Interdisciplinary designer Sang Mun on how privacy-focused design can empower users.

Design researcher Madeline Gannon on taming robots and reinventing the ways humans and machines interact.

How four teams harnessed Material’s components and code to craft award-winning experiences.

Bayonet Records founders Katie Garcia and Dustin Payseur on collaborating with musicians.

Exploring the music and movement of motion design with Bee Grandinetti and Hedvig Ahlberg.

Designer Ryan Snelson on inventing your own aesthetic and challenging industry norms.

Talking design systems and user-first experiences with the winners of the 2017 Material Design Awards

Tuuli and Kivi Sotamaa discuss their very first collaboration and an interest in experiences that aren’t stripped of friction.

How the heady early days of Material unfolded.

Illustrator Libby VanderPloeg explores the relationship between art and artist.

On getting to know your tools and the art only technology can create.

GMUNK on the psychedelic origins of his aesthetic and the importance of discomfort.

Rich Fulcher on game design, UX systems, and beautifying Google products

Illustrator and author Laurie Rosenwald on how to make mistakes on purpose and avoiding being alone with a blank page.

Engineering as the "study of making choices."

Game designer Bennett Foddy on “Getting Over It” and the expressive power of frustration.

Fashion designer Julian Zigerli on un-gendering clothes, cultural influence, and adaptation.

Taking a holistic perspective on Finnish design tradition, Marko Ahtisaari unpacks how the country’s societal values shaped its technologies.

How individual perspective is the real driver of design as a practice.

Rob details Notion Faces' journey from an internal tradition to a major public launch, including the pivotal decision to scale with human illustrators instead of AI.

Identity designer Jesse Reed on the lasting power of brand standards.

Fictive Kin’s Cameron Koczon on understanding the foundational impact of design.

Exploring the impact of digital type on our lives, on software production, and on the future of design.

Stephanie Dinkins unpacks why we should engage with AI, and her experience befriending the AI robot Bina48.

Exploring our shared vulnerabilities—and shared futures—in ink and code.

ORG Founder David Reinfurt on how identity intersects design, and what art and design have in common.

Isabelle Olsson explores the approach that lead to the unique aesthetic of Google hardware.

Architecture critic Alexandra Lange explores the design of childhood — from the sandbox to the street.

Anthropologist Tom Boellstorff on life—and the future—in virtual space.

Design Notes is a show about creative work and what it teaches us, hosted by Liam Spradlin.

Exploring potential futures for life online and the joy of learning (and sharing) something new.

Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.

The power of composition, and the importance of community.

Talbot & Yoon discuss designing objects that encourage play.

Fabian discusses his unique creative process, where inspiration flows from both artistic concepts and the discovery of new technological possibilities.

Artist Conor Grebel unpacks the relationship between his personal experiences and creative work.

Host Liam Spradlin reflects on the first 25 episodes of the podcast.

Design Notes is a podcast about creative work and what it teaches us. Hosted by Liam Spradlin, a Senior UX Designer at Google focused on the philosophy of the user interface, the show features convers...