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#669: It's already time to start planning for the holiday shopping season with Carey Cockrum, Cella by Randstad Digital 28:52

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Retailers are facing a rapidly evolving landscape where consumer expectations, AI advancements, and social media platforms like TikTok are redefining engagement. It feels like the holiday shopping season just ended, but when do retailers start planning for the next one, and some retailers already behind the curve for this season? Joining us today is Carey Cockrum, Director of Consulting at Cella by Randstad Digital, where she helps major brands and marketing teams optimize their strategies with data-driven insights, AI-powered content creation, and cutting-edge retail marketing trends. With the holidays just around the corner, she’s here to share what’s next for retail marketing, campaign optimization, and how brands can stay ahead in a hyper-competitive space. ABOUT CAREY COCKRUM Carey has been a part of the Creative Agency space for nearly 30 years. She has served as Designer, Creative Director, Creative Operations Lead and Agency Lead in both internal and external agencies (big and small). Carey has worked directly with C-suite stakeholders to understand organizational strategies that inform effective creative solutions. She is a bit of a data nerd and loves demonstrating results. Brands she’s supported include Fruit of the Loom, Wendy’s and Humana. In her free time, she enjoys going back to her creative roots through painting and drawing. She also spends her time improving upon the house she lives in today in Southern, MI - inside and out. RESOURCES Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brands Don't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…

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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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#Tech #Fine Arts #Arts #Graphic Design #Design #Brian Fling #Joe Alterio #Product Design

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51 Episoden

#Tech #Fine Arts #Arts #Graphic Design #Design #Brian Fling #Joe Alterio #Product Design

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Growth 44:51

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Mentioned Medium’s Snowflake Growth Tool (original GitHub repo) Stanford Product Design Rubric ( Stanford Design Program ) I, X and T shaped Designers Book: Radical Candor by Kim Scott Book: The Visual MBA (or Creative MBA — verify the exact title) Short Story: The Swimmer by John Cheever Newsletter: Good Work by Joe Alterio – goodwork.is Topics Discussed Growth ladders: how to define and measure designer growth Craft vs. Influence vs. Ownership vs. Communication vs. Engagement Developing fair, non-linear growth frameworks (including a Medium-inspired "Snowflake Tool") Challenges of upper-level design leadership (craft ≠ promotion criteria) Managing biases and subjectivity in design career advancement Importance of presence and communication (even on Slack!) Transitioning from craft-focused design to diplomacy, storytelling, and team leadership Reflection on the potential "end of an era" for traditional product design careers Life reflections: parenting, aging, mortality, and evolving beyond professional identity 🎬 Sneak peek: Next season’s theme — Top 10 Design Films exploration! Pull Quotes "At the upper levels, it's not about pixels anymore — it's about affecting change within other human beings." — Joe "Presence matters. Even in Slack. It’s visibility, engagement, and political capital." — Brian "We’ve reached the end of something... but the beginning of something else." — Brian "Growth isn’t just learning new tools — it’s learning how to move people and systems." — Joe 📣 Shout-outs To everyone who has listened across these 50 episodes — thank you for helping us grow. To our future selves: onward to new creative adventures (and maybe even bagel making). Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Please like, subscribe, and give us any feedback! Outro music: Bridge to Hawaii by Tacocat Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Prompts vs Pixels 46:40

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Mentioned V0 by Vercel that generates front-end code Builder.io for creating UI flows from language prompts UXPilot for generating UI from specs Lovable for different design styles Perplexity as a tool that bypasses SEO spam Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? Jakob's Law of Internet User Experience 23:48 Brian says he didn’t do a great job unpacking the confusion and buzz around “agentic AI” and that many people conflate multi-shot prompts, agentic AI and AI agents. Most real world “agentic AI” today doesn’t exactly match the definition used in research papers around AI agents. 38:00 Great story of a UX designer using Figma’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server and Cursor to create functional code. 41:00 The Shape of AI | UX Patterns for Artificial Intelligence Design Topics Discussed Large Language Models (LLMs) vs other AI technologies The rapid standardization of AI interface patterns AI tools in designers' current workflows Multi-shot prompts and agentic systems The tension between "prompts vs pixels" in product development How AI is changing the designer's role The new "industrial revolution" we're experiencing with AI Pull Quotes "Most AI researchers believe that the AI models have already reached 100% scouring of the web, right? So anything that's public is probably in those foundational models, which means they're not really going to grow much in the next five years." –Brian "It will make the most basic patterns. It will pull the most basic stuff... But what it won't do is it won't make it interesting." –Joe "I was a little bit stunned by how quickly that locked into amber... that they're all chat-based interfaces. They all use magic wands or sparkles or something." –Joe "A society that prioritizes productivity is a society without imagination... if the goal is to just get the data as fast as possible to do things better and faster, you are saving time for what?" –Joe "This is a new enlightenment. This is a new industrial revolution... Everything is changing." –Joe Other Resources on AI & Design The case against conversational interfaces Emerging UI/UX Patterns in Generative AI: A Visual Guide UX patterns for AI-powered experiences Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences What I’ve learned from 18 mths of AI conversational UI design Generative AI UX Design Patterns Scarcity and Abundance in 2025 Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Please like, subscribe, and give us any feedback! Outro music: In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Mini Episode: Zuckerberg, AI, and the Long Game 13:59

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Mentioned Arthur C. Clarke did die in 2008. Brian has no idea what he saw now. The Tech Oligarchy Arrives Mark Zuckerberg's political shift Meta's Llama AI models versus other foundational models " Making the world a better place " from Silicon Valley TV show The world is not as bad as we think it is. HyperFixed: Kristen Has Doubts Alternative social platforms ( Bluesky , Glass , Pencil Booth ) Starting a Series B Company Climate tech investments Topics Discussed Big tech's rightward shift Corporate motives behind progressive policies Tech's abandoned idealism Reclaiming technology for social good Finding hope in alternative platforms Pull Quotes "There was all this optimism about changing the world, making the world a better place." "The masks are off and you understand that a lot of the family friendly policies and the pride banners and all that stuff, it is strictly employee morale capture." "The bloom is off the rose." "We've got to figure out a way to take it back. Social media and the web, those are ours. That belongs to us, the people." "Long game, long game. Let's collect our shit together, support each other. We can do this." Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Outro music: Hard Times by Baby Huey Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Big Rooms, Small Rooms 45:34

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Mentioned Oranssi Pazusu MIke Sugarman Blackgaze Context Collaspe Designing for the Pluriverse Enshittification ProSocial Media Kala, the Suburban Miner Topics Discussed How did we get to this place of totally siloed communal activity? Big Rooms and Small Rooms Where the Weird Still Is Making the web civic-minded again Ethan Link's Ethan's Personal Website The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure Freq.Social Gobo.social Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Outro music: Delirium Tremens by Protector ✌️When in doubt, PLUR .✌️ Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Presenting Design 35:11

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Mentioned What Was the TED Talk? from our super smart friend Jay Fienberg (who you should hire!) Topics Discussed Why don't designers learn how to present design? Do's and Don't for design presentations To Neg or Not to Neg? That is the question. The exhausting reality of "performing" Pull Quotes "Amateur hour is when someone spends all their bullets in the first minute... You got to keep some in reserve." –Joe "If you act like you've done this so many times that you know what the problem is and you are bored by the details, you have convinced someone already that you can solve it." –Joe "People gather artifacts and data when they don't trust themselves to actually have the answer." –Joe "I continue to believe that we have the hardest job out of anyone in technology because we have to balance so many different things." –Brian "It's the job." –Brian Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Outro music: How To Get Your Ass Kicked by Sparks Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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The Burn Book 29:55

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Burn Victims • FAANG as a validator • FAANG's lack of innovation • Armchair Logo Art Direction • Amateur hour in the design space • MAU/DAU is a broken concept • Uber is the ultimate example of enshittification • An attempt to not look at my phone •"Chimping" • Text messaging needs a reinvent • What's App is terrible • " Founder Mode " • Alegria Art is an abomination Pull Quotes "I've seen incredibly talented people passed on because they don't have a FAANG background." "If tomorrow they found out burning kittens in a barrel would make their stock price go up four points, they would do it so fucking fast ." "I think you can make something extremely valuable, that you don't touch a lot." "Uber has made the world worse in every conceivable way" "Can you stand still and look around for 10 minutes? I bet you can't." "Founder Mode is just a new term for micromanagement" "Teaching is thing the that taught me how to be a better leader." Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to us! Outro music: Rumors by Lizzo (ft. Cardi B) Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Risk 43:32

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Mentioned Mythic Quest episode: Dark Quiet Death The pram in the hall Tim Van Damme XOXO Festival Crazy Boat! Topics Discussed The delicate balance between following established patterns and advocating for innovative design solutions How life circumstances (family obligations, debt, financial security) fundamentally change our relationship with risk The consulting advantage: why outside perspectives have more freedom to propose radical ideas The shifting landscape of design opportunities from the mobile revolution to today's uncertain AI frontier Why designers often self-censor their most authentic work out of fear or practicality Pull Quotes "Every big moment in my career was when I took one of those big swings." "My job is to represent the user...even if it puts me at odds with my team." "Every single good piece of work comes from a genesis of a personal experience." "Risk is a clarification of one's priority list." "I would never do anything to risk my family or my children...nothing would be worth it." Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to us! Outro music: Play At Your Own Risk (12" Version) by Planet Patrol Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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The Future of Design with Dave Miller 50:33

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In this episode, Brian and Joe welcome back Dave Miller from Design Citizen to discuss the evolving landscape of design as a profession and what the future designer might look like. Dave shares insights from his recent LinkedIn article exploring design from 2025 through 2040, discussing how AI and accessible tools are transforming creative capabilities and what skills tomorrow's designers will need to thrive in an increasingly competitive market. Mentioned What’s Next for Design? Predictions for 2025 to 2040 - Dave's article on how design will evolve over the next 15 years as AI transforms the field. How are we doing out there? (Designer&Designer Episode 30) - Previous episode with Dave Design Citizen - Dave's company website where you can learn about his coaching services r/pressurewashingporn - Ooooh yeah! Topics Discussed Dave's recent LinkedIn article about the future of design that "blew up" The shift from specialist designers to "Omni designers" who can do a bit of everything How AI and accessible tools are breaking down barriers to creativity The changing economic landscape for designers and the job market The value of design education in today's world The challenges of cross-disciplinary collaboration between design, engineering, and product How design can become a key differentiator in a world of sameness The future of design leadership and who will be in charge of creative vision Pull Quotes "Everything's changed. I think everything's gonna change every year apparently." - Dave Miller "I found myself all of a sudden seeing that I was exploring adjacent areas of what I'm technically qualified to do and not doing a bad job at it." - Dave Miller "The hottest thing in the market right now is essentially the player coach. It's the adult in the room that could manage... but they are particularly skilled in the craft." - Dave Miller About Dave Dave Miller is the founder of Design Citizen , a recruiting and coaching firm dedicated to helping designers thrive. With over 20 years of experience in the creative industry, he draws on the insights and trends he uncovers through conversations with the remarkable people and companies he collaborates with. For more of Dave’s perspectives on the ever-evolving world of design, follow him here on LinkedIn. Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: designer@designer.fm Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to us! Outro music: Pressure Washer vs Techno by @Klangphonics Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect 42:07

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect The Continuity Girl https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/continuity-girl/ Joe's Latest Web Comic, The Custodian https://goodwork.is/TheCustodian/ Design is Storytelling, by Ellen Lupton https://www.cooperhewitt.org/publications/design-is-storytelling/ "Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor and good taste, but we can't all have good taste" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8zvaTRuGo Medieval Guilds https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-guilds-4147821 Outro Song Et moi et moi et moi - Jacques Dutronc Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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What Will Product Design Look Like In A Year? 34:40

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"Meta’s Terrible AI Profiles Are Going Viral": https://lifehacker.com/tech/instagram-has-official-ai-accounts-and-they-are-weird AI2: https://allenai.org/ The Singularity Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/ Charles Baudelaire on Photography: https://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art109/readings/11%20baudelaire%20photography.htm Klout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout A Gentleman in Moscow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gentleman_in_Moscow Sam Altman's Popped Collars https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/sam-altman-sama Outro Song Time Hard - The Pioneers Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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AI-ay-ay 40:38

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"Generative AI fuels creative physical product design but is no magic wand" https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/generative-ai-fuels-creative-physical-product-design-but-is-no-magic-wand "Graphic design among most at-risk jobs from AI – report" "https://www.designweek.co.uk/graphic-design-among-most-at-risk-jobs-from-ai-report/" "Dieter - Your Virtual Head of Design" https://chatgpt.com/g/g-LQEv5avuV-dieter-your-virtual-head-of-design Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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The New Design Enlightenment 50:13

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Ep 40 Show Notes CZ is Going to Prison R/workreform The Need for Climate Optimism The Economy, Stupid The Strauss-Howe Generational Theory You’re Can’t Let Mom’s Death Be An Excuse for Getting the Ol Job Done How the Internet Makes Money by Making Us Feel Bad Library of Congress, Cartoon Collection The Electric Wire Panic N/N: “ AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years” Jakob’s Law Frutiger Aero Painter Bill Braun That Dickhead VC Dude Song Credit: “Auld Lang Sign” Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-75 https://lightintheattic.net/products/wheedles-groove-seattles-finest-in-funk-soul-1965-75 Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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The Dark Age of UX 42:04

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LinkedIn People who talk about this topic: Hang Xu https://www.linkedin.com/in/haxuco/ Peter Merholz https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/ Manuel Lima https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslima/ Erika Hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/ - Indeed UX Job Report https://indeed.design/article/ux-job-listings-plunged-in-2023 Joe’s Small Jobs, Small Dreams https://uxdesign.cc/small-jobs-small-dreams-7ed46faf46b0 Facebook is Chairs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA Runway AI Motion Genertationhttps://runwayml.com Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Visual Thinking 51:11

vor 2 years51:11

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Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All American schools are screening out too many of our visual and spatial thinkers. A Comparative Study of Colour Effects on Cognitive Performance in Real-World and VR Environments This research explores the influence of colour on cognitive performance and intellectual abilities (i.e., logical and lateral thinking abilities and people’s attention to detail) in a conventional laboratory setting and an approximately identical ... Visual Thinkers Online Test Buy Temple's book here! Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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Layoffs! 39:19

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Show Notes Workism Is Making Americans Miserable https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ Some decent Job Boards https://www.ixda.org/jobs/ https://www.uxjobsboard.com/ https://dribbble.com/ https://www.earlystagedesignjobs.com/ https://www.krop.com/creative-jobs/ux-ui-designer/ https://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/jobs/ If you ever want a portfolio review, email us! designer@designer.fm Stay strong out there ❤️ Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at designer@designer.fm…

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