Hosted by Max Beach · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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Q4D: Questions for Designers is a short-form podcast exploring how designers think, work, and make decisions across disciplines and career stages. Each episode uses a shared set of core questions to create a common framework, then expands into personal spotlight conversations shaped by each guest’s experience. Rather than portfolio talk, Q4D focuses on values, process, leadership, growth, and the realities of design practice. For students, professionals, and anyone curious about how design really works. Join the conversation, and keep asking questions.
Max Beach hosts Q4D - Questions for Designers | Conversations on Design, Leadership, and Creative Practice, a arts show with 12 episodes published.
In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Melina Goodwin about the transition from student to working designer and what that shift actually looks like in practice. Melina shares her experien
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Robert Creighton about designing interactive experiences across museums, public spaces, and educational environments. Robert reflects on the thread
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Peter DeMaria about architecture, modular construction, and the challenge of designing housing at scale. Peter shares how his work sits at the inter
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Melissa Brower about design leadership, building and scaling brand systems, and what it takes to lead creative teams effectively. Melissa shares ins
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Chris Collins of Kiwii about the intersection of brand partnerships, design strategy, and creative leadership. Chris shares insights from his experi
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), Max Beach speaks with Blair Hasty, Founder and Director of Industrial Design at Crafted By, about what it takes to move design upstream and earn a seat at the strategic t
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In this episode of Questions for Designers, host Max Beach sits down with Jon Lee, Principal Product Designer at Microsoft, to talk about designing at scale, decision-making inside large organizations, and the responsibi
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), host Max Beach talks with chair designer Eric MacDonald about craft, precision, and designing objects meant to be lived with every day. They explore his path into furnitu
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This bonus mini episode responds to a subscriber question from an engineering organization wrestling with a familiar challenge: how to bring real design principles into complex systems work without reducing design to a c
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In this episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), host Max Beach reconnects with longtime colleague Michelle Berryman, FIDSA—Executive Director of Digital Customer Experience at Labcorp, former IDSA President, and one of
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In this episode of Questions for Designers, host Max Beach talks with industrial designer and educator Jesus Galaz. They explore his path through product design, the role of discipline in creative work, what teaching has
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In this pilot episode of Questions for Designers (Q4D), host Max Beach sits down with longtime friend and fellow CCS alum Fernando Del Rosario, a seasoned creative, artist, and educator whose career bridges advertising,
Show notesThis short intro episode introduces Q4D: Questions for Designers, a podcast exploring how designers think, work, and make decisions beyond the portfolio. Host Max Beach shares the intent behind the series, the core quest
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Q4D - Questions for Designers | Conversations on Design, Leadership, and Creative Practice is hosted by Max Beach. The show is categorised under arts (design) and has published 12 episodes.
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