New Season 5
Walk Your Dog
In the new season we go beyond the industry noise to explore the designer’s mindset and why the ways designers see, question and make sense of the world are their most valuable skills. Drawing on over thirty years of experience and conversations with working designers, this season digs into the cognitive habits within design—the ways of thinking that turn noticing into understanding, understanding into action and that action into meaningful change. In an industry wrestling with AI and shifting roles, this season takes a different approach. Less jargon and more real talk about how designers actually think and how those habits can be learned and applied by anyone who’s looking to solve real problems. Coming soon!

Season 4
The Human Spark
In a time when Generative AI can spin out infinite ideas from a single prompt, we’re backing away from our LLMs and turning towards the people behind the ideas. Where do great ideas come from? What mindsets, moments, and messy processes lead to something truly original? In this fourth season of A76, we talk with designers, creators, and adjacent makers to explore a deceptively simple question—how did you come up with that?
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Season 3
The Art and Science of Scale
How 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 design systems. Personalization. From macro ecosystems to micro interactions, the Art and Science of Scale.
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Season 2
Change and A Designer’s Mindset
In our second season, we discuss how designer’s not only deal with change but drive it for their projects, clients and the people around them. Plus we explore how everyone can utilize a designer’s mindset in their personal lives to manage change.
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Season 1
AI and the Double Diamond Model
For the the first season we discuss our foundational design process seemingly being at odds with a tech very much in the zeitgeist right now—AI and the Double Diamond design model. Hosted by Noel Childs and colleague Casey Hudetz.
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Welcome to A76 design podcast, created and hosted by Noel Childs.