Beyond Ray - Women Led Conversations on Industrial Design

Life after Launch: Finale

To close out the season, Ginger and Kate were interviewed by Joe Gonzalez, our typically bts teammate, and Fran Wang, founder of Yona Care and previous pod guest. We all

Life after Launch: Beauty Products with Angie Kim

Designing in the beauty space is delicate because we can have so much impact for better or worse when it comes to approaches that encourage self expression or ones that m

Life after Launch: Game Design with Christine Risinger

Christine Risinger joins us in this episode to shed light on the complex and well researched world of game design. In her over 10 years at Wizards of the Coast, she worke

Life after Launch: Design Awards with Shu Bertrand

Today we dive into the world of design judging with Shu Bertrand, founder of Aplat, Chair of ID at California College of the Arts, and an experienced judge who has been a

Life after Launch: Sustainable Design with Baillie Mishler

If you get into a conversation with industrial designers about our impact, it doesn’t take long for sustainability to come up. We work in a field that produces a lot of p

Life after Launch: Sexual Health Innovation with Jude Glover

Dr. Glover is an educator, a leading researcher on sexual pleasure and access for people with disabilities, and a designer who has been innovating in the sex toy industry

Life after Launch: Fitness Tracking with Julie Henne

We have a very motivational first guest, Julie Henne, to dive into the designer’s impact. She has had a career for over ten years at Garmin and in that tenure, she’s expl

Life after Launch: Education and Research with Isabel Prochner

Dr. Prochner is the reason we set out to explore our season 3 topic: how do design and society shape each other and how does the designer’s identity, choices and intentio

The Long Bet with Fran Wang

Fran Wang, an engineer, will be the first to tell you that she isn’t an industrial designer, but her experiences sound very familiar to us. Now driving the Yona Care spec

The Designer's Tightrope

Most professions have standard behaviors, expectations and dress codes, but designers have a particular challenge of living their own brand or even being the visual repre

Granting Grace with Caterina Rizzoni

This episode with Caterina Rizzoni is a how-to manual on all things to do with volunteering and advocacy work. Cat has an extremely compassionate way of showing a single

Listen to Lead: Live Episode with Jillian Tackaberry

Today our episode is a little unconventional! One year ago in Chicago at the Women In Design Deep Dive we had our first Beyond Ray live episode with guest Jillian Tackabe

020 - Change is the Only Constant with Clare Duffy

Our conversation with Clare is a call to action for all designers to zoom out and navigate our work with more adaptability. We talked about the importance of process, dis

019 - On the Chopping Block with Katie-Gray Jackson

In today’s episode, we’re changing up the structure a bit and handing the reins over to Katie-Gray! She leads our team through exercises focused on building our community

014 - Happy WID-iversary! with Margaret, Ginger and Kate

Listeners- we just want to say a big thank you! Here we are, a year into this rewarding adventure and while we are still learning and sometimes still surprised we exist,

015 - Should Designers be Sellfish? with Zab Steenwyk

What if your main questions to spark career transition were- “Where can I have the biggest impact?” And “Where are the people I really want to learn from?” For Zab, this

018 - Square Peggy in a Round Hole with Joey Zeledón

Join the WID team and our guest Joey for a powerful conversation about identity informing our designs and how our design work in turn shapes us. Joey moved through the wo

017 - Bringing it all Home - Live Episode with Sena Janky

This month, our team had the special experience of recording a live episode at Western Washington University with alumni and Seattle powerhouse designer Sena. Sena has ha

016 - Design Thinking isn’t Rocket Science with Jessie Kawata

For Jessie, art is not the opposite of science but instead a necessary storytelling device that she’s used to problem solve throughout her career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion

013 - Bias in Bias out with Kristi Bartlett

Bias and its impact has been studied in STEM fields now for several years, but design, a discipline that places less emphasis on degrees and academic research, has had a