
A76 | a design pod
A76 is a podcast that synthesizes surprising connections and speculates on the future of design.
Episodes
28 episodes
031: Design life with Jennifer Andrews
Welcome back from our mid-season break! In today’s pod, I chat with Jennifer Andrews, who leads the Experience Design team in Digitas’ New York office. We chat about web1, her personal origin...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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39:31

030: The path to a carbon neutral A76
My goal is to make A76 sustainable in as many facets as I can. And for my 30th episode, I'm sharing my introductory conversation with Matt Saip, Head of Technology at Digitas Chicago, where we...
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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36:55

029: Personalized micro-interaction fails with Noel Childs
Welcome to a new episode of A76. Today, we're taking a detour from our usual in-depth interviews with designers and makers to explore something a little different—micro-interactions and moments of personalization that could be vastly improved.<...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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19:37

028: Icebreak > NoelAI/3 [Patreon preview]
This is an A76 Patreon preview Icebreak episode coming off my interview with Tracy Kramer, President of BuzzCo. If you haven't listened to that int...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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11:25

027: Finding design jobs with Tracy Kramer
In today’s episode I chat with Tracy Kramer. Tracy is the president of Buzz Company, a talent and recruitment agency based out of Chicago. I origin...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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33:00

026: Icebreak > NoelAI/2 [Patreon preview]
Welcome to a new Icebreak episode coming off my conversation with friend of the pod Mick Champayne about design and play. If you haven't listened to that interview, hit pause on this one, and
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5:55

025: The art of play with Mick Champayne
I’ve often found, that the best designers have a lightness about how they go about their craft. They regularly joke, don’t take themselves too seriously, and connect with others through humor. One minute they’re clowning, dropping memes and the...
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Season 3
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Episode 25
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32:03

024: Icebreak > NoelAI/1 [Patreon preview]
This is an A76 Patreon preview of an Icebreak episode coming off my interview with Matt Saip; he's the SVP Tech Lead in the Digitas Chicago office. If you haven't listened to that interview you should listen to it first
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Season 3
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Episode 24
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6:10

023: Translating tech with Matt Saip
In this A76 episode, I talk with Matt Saip the SVP Technology Lead at Digitas' Chicago office. Matt spends his days translating complex topics, rejecting technical language others use as a crutch, and seamlessy delivers innovative platforms and...
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58:30

022: Season 3 Kickoff ~ The Art and Science of Scale
Introducing Season 3 of A76How do we design for the future, for new users, for niche cultures and our greater global society? How do we take amazing ideas and make them real and when is scale a negative? Growing teams. Enterprise des...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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8:21

020: A76's song with Stella Solveig
In this bonus episode of the A76 design pod, I talk with the creator of our intro theme music, the talented artist and musician, Stella Solveig. She illuminates her writing and recording process, discusses what informed her decisions, in...
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Season 2
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33:51

019: "What if..." with Frank Grubich (part 2)
Bringing you part 2 of my conversation with mentor and creative juggernaut, Frank Grubich. If you haven't listened to Part 1, definitely go check that out fir...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:13:44

018: "What if..." with Frank Grubich (part 1)
For today’s pod - I’m thrilled to bring you part 1 of my interview with Frank Grubich. He’s had a 35 year career that’s still going. He’s a creative juggernaut who owned a succ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:16:46

016: Crafting sails for future change with Casey Hudetz
In today’s episode, I talk with friend of the pod Casey Hudetz. He’s a Senior Product Design Manager at Docusign, an AI enthusiast and international speaker on all things AI, tech and UX Design....
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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41:38

014: Designing a successful design career with Christin Norris
In today’s pod, I interview the talented Christin Norris, an Experience Design Manager at Accenture on the Design and Digital Products team. We talk about what we do when we’re not working, ho...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:01:40

013: Icebreak ~ The new electricity
In today’s pod I break down my Adam Buhler interview from season 2’s episode 5—The new electricity—plus I experiment with interviewing Pi, an AI chatbot and have an uncanny, a little glitchy, yet ultimately...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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17:55

012: The new electricity with Adam Buhler
Continuing with our season of change, I talk with the incomparable Adam Buhler. Adam's the SVP Head of Creative Technology at Digitas, ferociously curious and strikingly prophetic a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:19

011: Icebreak ~ Mitigating risk
After some time off, A76 design pod is back. I discuss episode 3's February interview with Dolly Vu, talk Brad Stulberg's Order, Disorder, Reorder cycle and preview an upcoming episode.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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10:00

010: Mitigating risk via options with Dolly Vu
In the third episode of our season of change, I talk with Dolly Vu an Associate Creative Director at Huge focusing on user experience and user interfaces. We have an open co...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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40:01

009: Icebreak ~ Change whispering
I'm Icebreaking my interviews as part of season 2's discussion of change. Specifically in this episode I discuss the behind the scenes context of chatting with Paul Grachan, what it takes to produce an episode of A76 and what happened wh...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:56

008: Change whispering with Paul Grachan
Welcome to A76. We kick off our season of change, chatting with Paul Grachan. Paul is a long time friend, designer, creative spark, and driver of change. When I thought about who I wanted to c...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:00:40

007: A76 Season 2 of Change Trailer
Change. It’s so ubiquitous that it seems ridiculous to even talk about. Yet our relationship to change is challenging. We have poor reactions to it, we ignore it hoping it will go away. We’re even surprised when it happens; which we sh...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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2:34

006: Season 1 Wrap Up, Highlights & Next Season Update
Noel and Casey wrap the season chatting on how their understanding of AI has changed over the course of the season. They discuss the highlights of the various guests they interviewed, how they’ve integrated AI into their design craft and implem...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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41:45
