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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 45
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
Top 10 questions of young designers ANSWERED with Jon Bennett
This is the first of many episodes where we dive into addressing the top 10 questions young industrial designers face.
- What skills are most important for a successful career in industrial design?
- Stud…
Stand Out!- How to be more memorable and more valuable to companies as a designer.
There's a sea of industrial designers out there, how can you stand out? Everyone is trying to stand out... but how can you actually do it?
Skill Stacking
We talk about the ins and outs of skill stacki…
YOU - the problem and the solution. Breaking out of a rut as an industrial designer
I used to enjoy my job, and now it's terrible. I aspire to be a great industrial designer, but I feel like I'm pigeon holed in my current role. I'm not growing as a creative. I feel stuck but I don't…
Banger actually a bust? How to handle times when you're not proud of your design work.
You won't always be able to give something 100%... heck sometimes 50% is all you've got. What do you do when you want to hit a home run, but you feel like you've struck out? In this episode we break…
You don't know what you don't know- with Jack Marple
In this episode we jump on a call with Jack Marple, the Associate Director of Industrial Design at Enlisted in Salt Lake City Utah to discuss design education and the top things that keep young (and …
Design traps we fall for and how to navigate feedback with professionalism.
In this episode of The Variable Design Podcast we dive in and discuss Sushant Vohra's LinkedIn post:
If you are a design student in 2023 don't fall for these 12 traps ↘
1) Being first in your class an…
The Art of Design- with Steve Cozzolino
Steve Cozzolino, an award winning and distinguished industrial designer with over 25 years of consulting experience, earned a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. Earl…
UGLY DESIGN ON PURPOSE- With Joey Zeledón
About Joey:
Prior to starting his own practice, Joey led design teams over the past 15 years while working for companies like Clarks, Continuum, Smart Design, Steelcase, and HP. His design work has be…
Experience Design is Not (only) Digital, with Brian Roderman
Recognized as 1 of the 50 most notable designers over the last 50 years, Brian Roderman is the President and Co-Owner of IN2 Innovation, an experience innovation design agency that provides a global …
A Designer's Guide to Unconsciously Sabotaging Yourself
There are a number of ways that we as creatives can inadvertently keep ourselves away from progress. In this episode we talk about common ways we shoot ourselves in the foot as industrial designers, …
Fact or Cap? The realities of intuition vs validation in Industrial Design
Questions we cover in this episode
1- Industrial Designers do human factors testing and ethnographic research to drive all their decisions.
- When is it appropriate to let intuition trump validation? Is …
The Ways of the Industry In ID
If you've been in the field of Industrial Design or you're just about to enter the field, then you've probably already noticed that there is a very traditional expectation you must meet. In MANY aspe…
Balance and Authenticity
As a designer how do you find the balance? Should we expect to always be grinding into the late hours of the night working on designs? Or should there be a clear separation of work and personal life?…
No BS Guide to startup design with Dave Joseph
Dave Joseph is the founder of Ovie Smartware and Camp design.
It's his mission to make meaningful products that impact people's lives. His design philosophy is to reach for the fusion point between a…
Leading Design Thinking Inside a Global Corporation- FT. Stephen Wurth
Stephen Wurth jumps in the deep end and shares the power of design thinking within a corporate environment.
Join the discussion on Clubhouse:
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Other (non-reco…
Want to grow as a creative? Try this- Design Career Development featuring Per Magnus Sköld
Watch the Original YouTube broadcast: https://youtu.be/y8KCHmiDBzU
Read the article mentioned in our food for thought segment https://vanschneider.com/blog/portfolio-tips/the-old-case-study-is-not-wor…
Retail Design, with Neon Carrot's Chris Weigand
A degree in industrial design gives you many career options. One of the paths we don’t mention often- but is in high demand- is retail and environment design. As designers, we have the power to influ…
Better Designers Tell Better Stories- With James Adams and Thomas Manning from Epic Light Media
The best designers are able not only to create noteworthy concepts, but present it in a compelling way that tells a memorable story. That's why we reached out to James Adams and Thomas Manning, the l…
Form, Design Language, & Visual Storytelling- Live Q&A with John Mauriello
John Mauriello is an intensely driven independent industrial designer and adjunct professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts. John works with clients to create best-selling desi…
Industrial Design Essentials with Reid Schlegel
About Reid
A NYC based Industrial Designer with a solid history working in the design consulting and education space. Currently an Associate Design Director at Aruliden and an Adjunct Professor at The…