Top Design Podcasts To Empower Your Creativity

Cadabra Studio
5 min readMar 5, 2020

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One of the best ways to stay up-to-date with the design industry trends is by listening to design podcasts. Due to 24/7 access to the podcasts material, designers can listen to the industry experts anywhere and anytime on a regular basis.

If you are as fond of design as we are, you’ll definitely appreciate this list of recommended design podcasts. Enjoy!

Design Better

The Design Better podcast powered by InVision, shares insights from design leaders, inspiring teams to build outstanding products.

The podcast has 4 seasons:

Season 1 is dedicated to features of a product-driven company, including human-centered design and the power of collaboration between the product, design, and engineering.

Season 2 highlights the key elements to scale design.

Season 3 season dives its listeners into the connected workflow and partnership throughout a specific organization.

Season 4 points out the principles of becoming a better teammate to be effective in design and engineering. Moreover, listeners get backstage to large organizations and how they are functioning.

High resolution

High resolution is a video podcast about product design and design philosophy. The podcast contains 25 episodes with 25 design gurus. It is considered to be one of the strongest lineups of design leads. The podcast covers all the aspects of the graphic design sphere as well as the peculiarities of including the stakeholders in the design process. The most valuable topics are discussed with the representatives of such companies as Pinterest, Slack, Instagram, etc.

Inside Intercom

Inside Intercom podcast is a series of interviews from the team of Intercom, where they speak about product management, startups, and marketing in design. The average duration is approximately 35 minutes — pretty enough to enjoy the speeches of design experts and pick up some useful tips concerning specific themes.

Let’s make mistakes

This incredible podcast hosted by Mike Monteiro and Jessie Char keeps you on the top of the design game. Each episode of this podcast has a fancy title and a lovely introductory speech. Hosts have an energetic and humorous discussion on the design industry with famous experts that lasts about an hour.

What’s wrong with UX

The podcast is hosted by 2 ingenious product designers — Kate Rutter (Principal at Intelleto) and Laura Klein (the author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups). The discussions are dedicated to the basic concepts of good user experience design. Each podcast episode is an informal talk that is accompanied by a drink pairing.

Product Breakfast Club

Each episode is a combination of ideas from 2 outstanding guys — Jake Knapp (a New York Times best-selling author of “Sprint”) and Jonathan Courtney (product designer and co-founder of AJ&Smart).

The Product Breakfast Club Podcast is ideal if you are eager to have a behind-the-scenes look at the product design process and product team workflow. Moreover, the hosts talk about ways of creating quality products faster.

Grits & Grids Podcast

This podcast is akin to an audio-library with exclusive materials about design. Currently, there are 3 seasons of interviews with talented designers. Grits & Grits podcast taps the minds of the design industry’s greatest to find out what motivates designers to become thirsty for great design and look for more.

Design Matters

Featured by Debbie Milman, the Design Matters podcast is considered to be the world’s very first design podcast. Over 14 years, Debbie Milman has been interviewing incredible designers about their lives, experience, and design cases. Design Matters is an anchor show of Design observers media channel with more than 200 episodes broadcasted.

UI breakfast podcast

The podcast has almost 160 episodes of impressive conversations about UI/UX design, products, and marketing. Guests share their knowledge and experience about design industries — so that the listeners can apply it in their ongoing business.

Shoptalk Show

Shoptalk Show is a live podcast about front-end web design, UX and development. Each episode is hosted by smart and thoughtful developers — Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert. This show is a place, where people are joking about front-end and design-related stuff, providing useful tips at the same time. The duration is about an hour-long.

AID Network show

When the podcast has such a promising motto — “Sometimes educational, sometimes off-topic, but always entertaining!”, the content has to be wide-ranging. And it is so. AID Network is a daily talk show with catching conversations, famous guests and ongoing pieces of advice.

Google Design Podcast

The podcast shows up the daily routine of designers in Google. It consists of 2 parts: Design Notes and Method. The first part contains episodes concerning useful tips in the design process. The second is about various design and management processes. The collection of podcasts is about getting inspired by diverse, in-depth insights from professional Google design experts.

Women of Illustration

It’s more than a podcast, it’s like a community that unites women of illustration around the globe. The episodes are about helping women to find their unique style, launch and build passion design products. The creator of this podcast, Dina Rodriguez, aims to inspire female designers all over the world.

Let’s talk branding

The podcast is specially created for branding strategists by Stef Hamerlinck. It contains many interviews from experienced designers and authors that are specialized in branding strategy. There are also the author’s solo episodes where he comments on interviews, branding experiences and his daily job.

The Honest Designers Show

This new podcast is featured by Tom Ross, Ian Barnard, Lisa Glanz, and Dustin Lee. Each of the hosts is a professional in their own creative fields. The podcast aims to provide listeners with a transparent look into the life of modern designers and features of the daily work. Moreover, hosts speak about the everyday challenges designers all over the world may face and the ways of resolving different tasks.

The Logo Geek

Episodes’ topics of the Logo Geek podcast are related to the design tips, communication with clients, creating and sharing ideas, choosing elements of design systems, portfolio mistakes, online marketing, and branding.

The podcast is featured by award-winning logo design expert Ian Paget. Here he interviews entrepreneurs and logo-makers about their life and work experience. Fancy to know, isn’t it?

The list of recommended design podcasts is time-tested by our designers at Cadabra Studio. Listening to the podcast materials is an additional source of inspiration and knowledge despite your level of proficiency as a designer. Always keep learning, and you’ll be on the top!

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