The Variable Design Podcast
The Variable Design Podcast is an innovator's guide to all things related to product design, industrial design and manufacturing. It's a collection of interviews with industry experts who share their uncensored advice in order to help the next generation of designers and entrepreneurs take their ideas from conception to fruition. Episodes cover aspects of industrial design, graphic design, marketing, engineering, and manufacturing to give listeners key insights on how to successfully develop and sell a product in today's marketplace.
The Variable Design Podcast
12- What really counts- with Elijah Woolery from InVision
In this episode of the variable, we get raw and real as we discuss the fundamentals of product design with Eli Woolery from InVision's The Design Better Podcast. This episode we cover aspects of design, question the dogmatic culture of design-thinking, and uncover some of the underrated skills that set expert designers apart from the pack. This episode is rich with applicable advice taken from Eli's years of experience working in the industry, interviewing experts as a podcast host, and teaching at Stanford University.
About Eli Woolery
Elijah Woolery is an author, speaker, and designer, with a depth of experience in product, user interface, and user experience design. He currently works as the Senior Director of Design Education at InVision, where he writes, speaks, and runs workshops to help large enterprises adopt better design practices. His design career spans both physical and digital products, and he has worked with companies ranging from startups (his own and others) to Fortune 500 companies.
He’s the co-host, along with Aarron Walter, of the Design Better Podcast, which was nominated for a Webby in 2020, and has had the pleasure of interviewing creatives like John Maeda, Debbie Millman, Seth Godin, Jason C. Mayden, and the inimitable John Cleese. He wrote The Design Thinking Handbook for InVision, which is currently used in the curriculum at UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design, as well as USC’s Graduate School of Business.
In addition to his background in product & industrial design, he has been a professional photographer and filmmaker. He teaches the senior capstone class Implementation to undergraduate Product Designers at Stanford University.
Links and other related content from this episode:
The Design Better Podcast: https://www.designbetter.co/podcast
The Design Thinking Handbook : https://www.designbetter.co/design-thinking
Greyscalegorilla: https://greyscalegorilla.com
Erica Hall, Minimum Viable Ethnography: https://medium.com/mule-design/minimum-viable-ethnography-a047e9358df0
