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The queue

The shading behind each date shows whether an episode is still current. It empties after two years for AI and design; five years for design engineering, design systems and career; fifteen years for everything else.

1. 1 1. What is UX, anyway? (feat. Dr. Jakob Nielsen, the usability guru) NN/g UX Podcast 17 min A 17-minute grounding in what 'user experience' actually covers, from the person who defined much of the field's vocabulary. Good calibration before the more opinionated episodes.
   Aug 2020 Research Mark as heard
2. 2 9. You Are Not the User: How the the False Consensus Effect Can Lead Good Design Astray (feat. Alita Joyce, UX Specialist at NN/g) NN/g UX Podcast 29 min The single most important habit to unlearn as a developer: assuming your own intuition represents users. Short and concrete.
   Apr 2021 Research Mark as heard
3. 3 Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more Lenny's Podcast 48 min The standard framework for deciding what to build: weekly customer contact plus the opportunity solution tree. Gives you a structure for the 'why' before any pixels.
   Jun 2022 Discovery Mark as heard
4. 4 Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 30 min A GV researcher with 300+ research sprints explains a one-day method for finding who to build for first. Very tactical about interviews and quick prototypes.
   Dec 2024 Discovery Mark as heard
5. 5 38. User Interviews (feat. Steve Portigal, Research Consultant and Author) NN/g UX Podcast 46 min The author of Interviewing Users on when interviews are the right method and how to run them without leading the witness.
   Apr 2024 Research Mark as heard
6. 6 #166 - Summer Throwback: Erika Hall on Why Surveys (Almost Always) Suck Awkward Silences 44 min The author of Just Enough Research explains why surveys are the most overused and misused research tool, and what to reach for instead.
   May 2025 Research Mark as heard
7. 7 25. Discount Usability: Expert Reviews and Heuristic Evaluations (feat. Evan Sunwall, UX Specialist, NNg) NN/g UX Podcast 36 min Heuristic evaluation is the cheapest usability method you can run alone on your own product today. This episode covers how to run one and how to report the results.
   Feb 2023 Research Mark as heard
8. 8 The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 15 min A former Airbnb/Meta research leader's critique of how research went wrong, which helps you tell useful research from ritual.
   Jan 2024 Research Mark as heard
9. 9 35. Wireframing & Prototyping (feat. Leon Barnard, Content Manager, Balsamiq) NN/g UX Podcast 37 min A developer's instinct is to jump to high fidelity; this argues for low-fidelity wireframes as the thinking tool that keeps options open.
   Feb 2024 Craft Mark as heard
10. 10 How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 22 min A lettering artist explains typography choices and what they signal, using a live logo refresh as the case study. Useful for training your eye for type.
    Oct 2024 Craft Mark as heard
11. 11 Janum Trivedi - What makes a software product feel great Dive Club 49 min A prototyper who worked on Arc, Netflix iOS and the iPad pointer takes apart what makes software feel good. This is where interaction craft meets code.
    Sept 2024 Design engineering Mark as heard
12. 12 Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 40 min The designer-founder of Linear on running a company where craft is the strategy. It's the reference case for quality in software people use every day.
    Oct 2023 Craft Mark as heard
13. 13 Config 2025: Crafting quality that endures (Karri Saarinen, Co-founder & CEO, Linear) Figma Config 2025 20 min Video only A 20-minute talk that works as a companion to the Linear episode: quality as the foundation rather than a finishing step, and the case for designers as tool-builders.
    May 2025 Craft Mark as heard
14. 14 Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 34 min Stripe's head of design on what makes a design great and how Stripe ties quality to growth. Pairs with her 2026 summit talk later in this queue.
    Oct 2023 Craft Mark as heard
15. 15 Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon care Dive Club 54 min A detailed look at interface craft from a designer of Wealthfront and Dropbox, including live walkthroughs of micro-interactions and an onboarding flow.
    Mar 2026 Craft Mark as heard
16. 16 Be the director: how stage craft informs product craft ft. Kim Beverett (OpenAI) | Config 2026 Figma Config 2026 22 min Video only An OpenAI designer uses stage direction as a frame for product decisions. It gives you a vocabulary for intentional choices and non-negotiables.
    Jul 2026 Craft Mark as heard
17. 17 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley Lenny's Podcast 1 h 42 min A long career's worth of opinions from Apple (online store, App Store), Pinterest and Yahoo, several of them contrarian and relevant to engineers, such as design reporting to engineering.
    Jun 2025 Craft Mark as heard
18. 18 Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing? Dive Club 55 min Figma's designer advocate on how design systems are shifting now that agents consume them. A developer already thinks in components, and this adds the design-side view.
    Mar 2026 Design systems Mark as heard
19. 19 Design systems anarchy ft. Lauren LoPrete (Mercury) | Config 2026 Figma Config 2026 22 min Video only A systems lead from Block, Dropbox and Expedia argues against policing design systems. A useful counterweight to thinking of a system purely as a component library.
    Jul 2026 Design systems Mark as heard
20. 20 Nate Koechly and Matthew Darby: YouTube's UX Director and Director of PM on redesigning one of the world's most-used apps Design Better 43 min A case study of redesigning an app used by billions without losing users. Covers how to measure a subjective goal like 'feels modern'.
    Feb 2026 Design systems Mark as heard
21. 21 Nate Parrott - Going from engineer to founding designer of Arc Dive Club 52 min The same path you're on: an engineer at Snap who became the founding designer of Arc. A good model for how an engineering background becomes an advantage.
    Aug 2024 Design engineering Mark as heard
22. 22 Designing in code | Config 2026 Figma Config 2026 43 min Video only Figma's own session on moving design work into code (Make on a local codebase, Code layers on the canvas). It's a product demo, but it shows where the mainstream tool is taking the designer–code boundary.
    Jun 2026 Design engineering Mark as heard
23. 23 Karl Koch - Tips for New Design Engineers Dive Club 46 min Practical advice for new design engineers, including how the role differs from frontend engineering. This is the most directly applicable episode for your transition.
    Feb 2026 Design engineering Mark as heard
24. 24 Soleio - The rise of designers who ship Dive Club 1 h 2 min Early Facebook and Dropbox design lead, now an investor, on why the future belongs to designers who can ship. It's the market argument for your skill mix.
    Oct 2024 Design engineering Mark as heard
25. 25 Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada Lenny's Podcast 1 h 1 min Microsoft's CPO on why prototyping with AI replaces much of the spec. It also covers designing natural-language experiences.
    May 2025 AI and design Mark as heard
26. 26 Vitaly Friedman - Beyond Chat: What's Next for AI Design Patterns Dive Club 57 min The Smashing Magazine founder on interaction patterns for AI features beyond the chat box. It's concrete enough to apply to your next feature.
    Aug 2025 AI and design Mark as heard
27. 27 The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude) Lenny's Podcast 1 h 17 min Claude's head of design on why the discovery → mock → iterate process is breaking down and what replaces it. Listen after the foundations so you know what's being retired.
    Mar 2026 AI and design Mark as heard
28. 28 Meaghan Choi - Designing Claude Code (and what's coming next) Dive Club 54 min Designing a product (the Claude Code CLI) that barely has a UI. It's a good stretch for a developer: design in a terminal is still design.
    Jul 2026 AI and design Mark as heard
29. 29 Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field Lenny's Podcast 1 h 27 min Figma's CEO argues that when AI makes building cheap, design and quality become the differentiator. It's the strategic case for the skill you're building.
    Oct 2025 AI and design Mark as heard
30. 30 OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber Lenny's Podcast 1 h 12 min OpenAI's head of product design (ChatGPT, Codex) on why engineers got 10x faster with AI while design teams didn't, and what OpenAI hires for.
    Aug 2026 AI and design Mark as heard
31. 31 Raise the ceiling: how to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI | Katie Dill (Stripe) Lenny's Podcast 22 min Video only A 22-minute summit talk from this week on keeping AI-built products from becoming generic 'zombie UI'. A current follow-up to her 2023 episode.
    Sept 2026 AI and design Mark as heard
32. 32 Josh Puckett: Design Has Never Been More in Demand. So Why Can't Juniors Get Hired? State of Play 41 min Tommy Geoco's show, on why design demand is high while juniors still can't get hired. Directly relevant if you're entering the field now.
    Mar 2026 Career Mark as heard
33. 33 Matt Sellers - What a top 1% design portfolio looks like Dive Club 33 min A behind-the-scenes look at the portfolio that got a designer hired at Lovable. Tactical, and a good last step before you build your own.
    Jan 2026 Career Mark as heard

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