thistbh – A podcast about design thistbh

This month we’ve got a very special, live edition for you. We were invited to host the panel at Product Party with Octopus Ventures, so we figured we would record it and share with you all!
We were really excited to take part, we’ve wanted to record the podcast with a live audience for a long time now and when the opportunity arose to interview such a wonderful panel, we jumped at the chance.

You can find all the panelists on Twitter:

Nat Buckley
https://twitter.com/thatnatbuckley
Camila Diaz
https://twitter.com/Ux_Chick
Rachel Ilan Simpson
https://twitter.com/rilan

This month, Mike & Will are talking to the designer and ethicist Cennydd Bowles

He is a principal technology adviser at the ICO, author of Future Ethics, and a visiting lecturer at the RCA and Manchester Met.
Cennydd’s views on the ethics of technology and design have been quoted by Forbes, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken on responsible innovation at Facebook, Stanford University, and Google, and is currently studying practical ethics at the University of Oxford.


Further Reading: 
https://cennydd.com/future-ethics
http://tarotcardsoftech.artefactgroup.com
https://ethicalexplorer.org
https://www.ethicsfordesigners.com
https://www.designethically.com

This week Will and Mike are talking to Vuokko Aro, VP of Design at Monzo. 

Joining 5 years ago from Citymapper, when Monzo was a pre-paid app and there was just one product squad, they've been a part of that incredible journey from 100k customers and  less than 100 employees to 6 million customers and a few thousand employees.

We discuss a whole bunch of topics this time round, from the importance of being your authentic self at work to how pragmatism and appreciation for topics beyond design actually help further the case for design.

This week Mike and Will are talking to Jaime Robb, Product Design Director at TotallyMoney.

Jaime has recently been promoted up to the role of Director, we talk about where having a seat at the table differs from her expectations as well as the her initial transition into management when she became Head of Design at Totally Money.

This week Mike and Will are talking to Nat Buckley. 

Nat is currently the Head of Design at Attest and before that headed up the team at Bulb Energy, the fastest growing energy company in history who at their peak were one of the UK’s most recommended businesses, with 30% of new sign-ups coming from referrals.

We’ll be talking about creating the best work possible by ensuring an environment of psychological safety, how fun can help us achieve this goal and how they approach this crucial part of the puzzle for their teams.

This week Mike and Will are talking to Matt Vagni & Simon Rohrbach who for the past year have been building a company called Plain. An an API-first customer service platform, focused on helping modern companies easily build great customer service tools tailored to them.

Most recently Matt was a Senior Software Engineer at Echo Pharmacy and Simon was advising start ups at Index Ventures. But they both met while working at in the Design team at Deliveroo which Simon built.