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Design Meets Business
Hosted by Christian Vasile · business · EN
About this Podcast:
Design Meets Business is a podcast that inspires designers to think beyond pixels. On this show you'll hear design leaders from all over the world talk about their stories, lessons they've learned during their careers, and how you can use Design to make a bigger impact in your organisation.
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What is Design Meets Business about?
Design Meets Business is a podcast that inspires designers to think beyond pixels. On this show you'll hear design leaders from all over the world talk about their stories, lessons they've learned during their careers, and how you can use Design to make a bigger impact in your organisation.
Who hosts Design Meets Business?
Design Meets Business is hosted by Christian Vasile. The show has published 41 episodes to date.
What has Design Meets Business covered recently?
Recent episodes include "The Accountability Ladder, Learning to Lead by Leading Yourself, and Why Wisdom Matters More Than Intelligence, with Steve "Buzz" Pearce (ex-Skype, Microsoft, SkyScanner, TravelPerk, Monday.com)" (14 January 2026, 64 minutes), "From Bad Management to Great Leadership, The Pendulum Swing Back to Craft, and Making Boring Projects Exciting, with Cap Watkins (ex-Amazon, Etsy, BuzzFeed, Lattice)" (7 January 2026, 47 minutes), and "Staying Useful as a Designer, Making Good Trouble, and How AI is Reshaping Design, with Matt Davey (CXO at 1Password)" (10 December 2025, 72 minutes).
How often does Design Meets Business publish?
Design Meets Business publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 61 minutes across 41 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Design Meets Business?
Booking probability for Design Meets Business is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Design Meets Business requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Design Meets Business's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Design Meets Business?
The strongest fits for Design Meets Business are Design Services and Business & Management Consulting. Design Meets Business has a business audience.
About the host
Christian Vasile hosts Design Meets Business, a business podcast with 41 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Jan 7, 202647 minS4Cap Watkins was most recently VP of Product Design at Lattice, and previously he's held design leadership roles at Amazon, Etsy, BuzzFeed, and Primary.com. Cap started his management career as an experiment after...
Dec 10, 20251h 12mS4Matt Davey is Chief Experience Officer at 1Password, where he's been for over 13 years, starting as a part-time contractor and growing alongside the company through multiple chapters of change. On today's show we chat...
Dec 3, 20251h 11mS4Jennifer Darmour is VP of Design at Oracle Health, where she's reimagining the healthcare experience. Jennifer has developed a distinct point of view on design through three pillars: beauty, meaning, and wellness. On...
Nov 26, 202554 minS4Rachel Been is Expedia's SVP of Design. Previously, she was one of the designers who laid the foundations for Google's Material Design, and has worked across products at Airbnb, Google Home, and Nest. Starting her...
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Nov 19, 20251h 1mS4Jehad Affoneh is Chief Design Officer at Toast, where he leads design across product, platform, and culture. Previously, he held design leadership roles at VMware and other complex B2B companies. Starting his career as...
Episode #5
Building Trust, Creating Clarity, and Making an Impact, with Vuokko Aro (Monzo Chief Design Officer)
Nov 12, 20251h 7mS4Vuokko Aro is Chief Design Officer at Monzo, where she has led the design function for nearly a decade through hypergrowth from startup to one of the UK's most loved fintech brands. She oversees a team of over 100...
Nov 5, 20251h 16mS4Andrea Mangini is a design and creative leader whose career spans some of the most design-driven companies in the world — from Adobe and Autodesk to Netflix and Shopify. She’s led teams that built the tools and...
Oct 29, 202555 minS4Josh is a super designer who believes the best ideas come from collaboration and play. Over his career, he’s worked across agencies and tech companies such as Google, ZOE, and Booking.com, helping teams find energy and...
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Taste, Craft, and Design in the Age of AI, with Avi Ashkenazi (ex Samsung & Shopify, now at Deel)
Oct 22, 202559 minS4Avi Ashkenazi is a design leader who’s spent his career moving between hardware, software, and strategy—always focused on how teams turn ideas into real products. He’s led design at global companies and helped build...
Oct 15, 20251h 11mS4J.B. Chaykowsky is a design and product leader with over two decades of experience spanning architecture, technology, and fintech. He spent more than 10 years at Intuit, where he led global design teams across the UK...
Jan 31, 202459 minS3Ryan is the founder of Accelerate Design Company. He's a Product and Design leader who brought food photography, live-order tracking, and remote driver training to DoorDash, launched step-function improvements to...
Episode #9
Doug Powell on Creating the Conditions for Designers to Do Great Work (ex IBM, Expedia, AIGA)
Jan 24, 202455 minS3Doug has been in the Design world for 30 years and is well known for his role as VP of Design at IBM, where he oversaw IBM's design practice, design career and leadership programs, and the scaling of cross-functional...
Jan 17, 202453 minS3Dan is a seasoned designer with over 20 years of experience in leading teams at companies such as Farfetch, Just Eat, Wonderbly, and Fresha. Until very recently Dan ran a small design studio – Rubber Studio. In today's...
Jan 10, 20241h 12mS3Dan is a seasoned design executive who's led teams at Microsoft, Google, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, and Lloyd's, among others. From working on the Surface Tablet, starting Project ARA at Google, leading the efforts to...
Jan 3, 202459 minS3Lea is a Product & Growth Consultant with a massive proven track record of helping companies get traction. Today we talk about experimentation frameworks, how to build better relationships with Product, and about what...
Dec 20, 20231h 1mS3Maria is a Product Design Leader at Turo and Founder of Careercoach.design. In this episode get to talk about the rise of the Player-Coach Designer, about building better relationships at work, about coaching, and we...
Dec 13, 202355 minS3Alastair Simpson is a design leader and mentor, serving as VP of Design at Dropbox. Prior to Dropbox, Alastair was Head of Design at Atlassian, where he helped scale the design team from 20 to over 250. On today's show...
Dec 6, 20231h 1mS3Sean has spent the past 25 years at the intersection of commerce, consumer behaviour, and data-driven feedback loops. This included working for Tesco, GfK, and two long stints with Amazon, among others. In this chat we...
Nov 29, 202349 minS3We're switching gears a little from Design and catch up with Tom Scott, who's sharing his thoughts on building and using your network for your job search, the rise of the player-coach designer, and his thoughts on...
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Entertainment writer, reporter and Box Office analyst, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana
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Professor of Nuclear Materials and Devices, Virginia’s Innovation Crossroads Alliance
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Jamie Young
PhD candidate in sports psychology, Liberty Hospital
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Alex Cuthbert
Wales and British & Irish Lions legend, Welsh rugby union
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