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Better late than never, and worth the wait no doubt!

It's the end of season 2 episode, where we wrap up the season with a look back over our guests, what we've learnt and the great conversations we've had!

Join our hosts for this final episode John and Dom, who take you through what's been done, what's to come and their favourite moments from the movie Ghost, which John's only just got round to seeing!

Thanks for listening, see you for season 3 soonish...

Pack out!

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**Links from the show:

1. Business for designers - Ryan Rumsey**
   https://www.designbetter.co/business-thinking-for-designers

2. Tom prior - business for designers
https://www.designersinbusiness.com/

3. Product unleashed - Richard Banfield recordinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXRFbrJsRk

4. Meet butter
https://meetbutter.io/

5. Just enough research book - Erika Hall
https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research

6. Duke Nukem article wired
https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/

7. Marc Maron interview with David Fincherhttps://www.moviemaker.com/david-fincher-marc-maron-wtf/

8. Mat Hunter - Plus X
https://twitter.com/mat_hunter?lang=en

9. Silicon Brighton
https://siliconbrighton.com/

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In our penultimate episode of Pack Unleashed season 2, we are welcoming Richard Banfield, VP of design transformation into the mix!

Richard joined our recently at our first product unleashed event, where he dropped some knowledge combs about high performing teams on our eyes and ears!

This time, like Arnold, he's back! And our design director John got Richard chewing the fat about his varied career starting with studying biology and ending up in design via diving in far away lands.

Always an entertaining and insightful guest, Richard is a first-class fountain of knowledge. Don't miss this!

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**Links from the show:

1. Our Product Unleashed Event with Richard - November 2020:**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXRFbrJsRk&t=1145s

2. Richard Banfield - Your Product Idea is Great, But Who Cares? Live! (Spoolcast):

https://uie.fm/shows/spoolcast/richard-banfield-your-product-idea-is-great-but-who-cares-live

3. Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Sprint-Practical-Guidebook-Building/dp/1491923172

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For this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, Mat Hunter, Co-CEO of Plus X.

Matt has had a long and varied career kick-started by landing a placement at world-renowned design and innovation agency IDEO, where he went on to work for 15 years focussing mostly on creating digital products and services.

He's also a tutor and visiting professor at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Imperial Business School London.

As if that wasn't enough plates for Mat to spin, he's now Co-Ceo of Plus X, an innovation hub with ambitious plans to create safe spaces for experimentation and collaboration for companies of all sizes.

Join our Matt, as he quiz's Mat (so many Matt's!) on his origins story, what led him into a career in design, how to build the right conditions for innovation and most importantly...finds out what's in Mat's draws! Oooooh errrr.

Don't miss it, get your ears involved. Do it, Do it NOW!

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**Links from the show:

1. IDEO** https://www.ideo.com/eu

2. Central Research Laboratory https://centralresearchlaboratory.com/

3. Plus X
https://plusx.space/

4. Pack Articles

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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In this episode of Pack Unleashed, the founders of Pack Matt, John and Dom delve into the world of perfection OR, rather, how striving for perfection can ultimately hold you back.

From day dot we’re programmed to strive for perfection in everything we do.

But is perfection something we can really attain?

And how does perfection affect the way we think about our work and the products we create?

AND...what on earth does all this have to do with John’s Nan and Duke Nukem 3D…

You’re going to have to listen to find out!

Please Note: This episode contains many many bleeps! 🤬😂

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Links from the show:

1. Feck Perfuction book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feck-Perfuction-Dangerous-Ideas-Business/dp/1452166366

2. Slo Mo - SXSW Best Documentary Winner:

https://vimeo.com/59749737

3. Love for Imperfect Things book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Imperfect-Things-Yourself-Perfection/dp/0241331129

4. Wired Magazine - How Success Killed Duke Nukem:

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/

5. Pack Articles

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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Settling into Season 2 of our podcast, we have the great Erika Hall joining us for an awesome episode, where we talk about the importance of research and how you can benefit from including it in your product business.

We’ll also be jumping into the Pack Delorean to take a leap back in time, to discuss how Erika got started in the design industry and what first got her interested in the subject of research.

Erika is Co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule, a consultancy which focuses on helping organisations make better, more evidence-based decisions.

She is also a prolific writer and the author of Just Enough Research, now in its second edition, and Conversational Design, both from A Book Apart.

She writes about topics that challenge the conventional wisdom of the field, which encourage designers to think more deeply about the implications of their work.

Packed with practical advice + knowledge bombs aplenty…😬😮😲😀

DO NOT MISS THIS EPISODE!

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Links from the show:

1. Just Enough Research by Erika Hall (Book)

https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research?_pos=1&_sid=dba49314c&_ss=r

2. Conversational Design by Erika Hall (Book)

https://abookapart.com/products/conversational-design?_pos=2&_sid=dba49314c&_ss=r

3. You’re my Favourite Client by Mike Monteiro (Book)

https://abookapart.com/products/youre-my-favorite-client?_pos=1&_sid=3c8bd7e92&_ss=r

4. Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro (Book)

https://abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job?_pos=2&_sid=3c8bd7e92&_ss=r

5. Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro (Book)

https://www.ruinedby.design/

6. Behave by Robert Sapolsky (Book)

https://www.bookdepository.com/Behave-Robert-M-Sapolsky/9780099575061

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Links to Erika:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikahall/

Twitter: @mulegirl

Website: https://muledesign.com/

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To kick off season 2 of our podcast, we have a great guest and a white hot topic!

We’re joined by Laïla von Alvensleben, who heads up Culture & Collaboration at MURAL.

Laïla has a background in UX design and has worked as an industry expert and facilitated workshops for the likes of Hyper Island and Mural.

She’s now a remote workplace expert and contributes to a variety of programmes and businesses helping them navigate their remote challenges!

We talk about what it means to build a remote culture which is both inclusive but also gives people and teams autonomy to shine. We also touch on the one super power you need to thrive in a remote team right now.

Packed with practical advice and knowledge bombs aplenty, you do not want to miss this episode!

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Links from the show:

1. Remote work transformation is a full-time job (or, why you need a Head of Remote Work)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-work-transformation-full-time-job-why-you-need-darren-murph

2. Online warmups and energisers from Mural:

https://www.mural.co/blog/online-warm-ups-energizers

3. Mural imagine

https://www.mural.co/imagine

4. Mural back stage pass

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZa1OFNww6MrYctf8Z1y7xPWYsfu8O6j

5. Pack Articles

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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Links to Laïla & Mural:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lailavon/

Twitter: @lailavona

Website: lailavon.com

MURAL:

Twitter: @mural

Website: mural.co

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WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!

It’s finally here. We’ve managed to push the fan mail aside and have made it back into the saddle once more, for season 2 of Pack Unleashed! 

Not only are we back, we’re also in a brand new studio and have a sponsor, the ever awesome Plus X innovation hubs. 

In our first episode we recap on season 1, but more importantly we look forward to what’s in store in season 2 our mightiest season yet. Jam packed with guests and knowledge bombs aplenty! 

Buckle up buttercup…Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!

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Links from the show:

1. Pack Articles

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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We had big things planned for the end of Pack Unleashed Season 1, but...life happens! 😬

This week John rounds things up with a retrospective episode where he reveals why we started the podcast, what we're passionate about, a tribute to our brilliant guests and what you can expect from season 2, while Matt and Dom are in the trenches of a Design Sprint! 🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏃‍♀️

If you want the lowdown on what the last 13 episodes have covered, this is the episode for you 🔥

It's time to kick off your shoes, relax your socks, let the final curtain draw to a close, that's the end of season 1, but in the words of a great philosopher....

"I'll be back" 🦾😎🦾

Arnold Schwarzenneger - 1984

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1. Follow Pack on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/pack-better-together/

2. Pack articles!https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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Worried your business is staggering into a post apocalyptic future like one of the Zombie hoard?

Have you tried to introduce new innovative services and solutions into your company but hit a block at every turn?

Then you need to have a listen to this weeks Pack Unleashed special guest episode with Elvin Turner. Elvin is the go-to Innovation consultant for some of the biggest companies world, and author of Be Less Zombie - How great companies create dynamic innovation, fearless leadership and passionate people.

In this penultimate episode of season 1of the podcast, Matt and Elvin go deep on :

• How to work out if your company is part of the Zombie hoard

• How to introduce a culture (or space!) that encourages experiments

• How some of the biggest companies in the world foster scalable innovation

• Bowling with the bumpers up

And so much more!

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1. Link to the book on Amazon:https://amzn.to/3cB7tPN

2. Be Less Zombie website:www.belesszombie.com

4. Elvin's website:www.elvinturner.com

5. Elvin on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvint/

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In this weeks show John is joined by an extra special guest, head of communications at Eximia Graeme Cook.

Graeme is former EMEA strategic communications manager at Microsoft and has worked for both London Heathrow and BT in the past communications roles.

After telling our own Graeme and John origins story via wrestling and sharks, we talk about the power of stories and how you can harness storytelling to help get buy in for your ideas.

From neuroscience to Jaws, selling junk on eBay, right through to the neuroscience behind the way our brains LOVE stories, we give you practical and, sometimes slightly less practical, uses for stories which will help you engage people and rally around your ideas!

A fascinating episode not to be missed…

Let’s do this!

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1. 5 Business Lessons We Can Learn From JAWS
https://thedailyjaws.com/blog/2019/7/25/5-lessons-business-we-can-learn-from-jaws

2. Is the Karate Kid to Blame for the Design Sprint?
https://www.ridewiththepack.com/is-karate-kid-to-blame-for-the-design-sprint/

3. Eximia Linkedin page

https://www.linkedin.com/company/eximia-comms/

4. Graeme Cook Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/graeme-cook-20a80153/

5. Significant Objects Study

https://significantobjects.com/

6. Jaws the Novel - Peter Benchley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(novel)

7. Fear City (Netflix)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_City:_New_York_vs_The_Mafia

8. High Score (Netflix)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Score_(TV_series)

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On this weeks show we talk about 3 of our favourite knowledge bomb articles on our shiny new blog.

We’ll take you on a journey from The Karate Kid and Design Sprints, via Erika Hall’s approach to Just Enough Research with a slice of failed Coca Cola in the mix, before we take a wander through the angst ridden halls of Shermer High illinois during the summer of 1984, as we join The Breakfast club to talk about Cognitive Diversity.

Phew!

Buckle up and get your reading glasses out from the back of the sofa, knowledge bombs deployed…

Let’s do this!

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Pack Articles:

1. Is the Karate Kid to Blame for the Design Sprint?

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/is-karate-kid-to-blame-for-the-design-sprint/

2. Just Enough Research - The Pack Way

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/just-enough-research-the-pack-way/

3. Cognitive Diversity: Don’t you forget about me

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/cognitive-diversity-dont-you-forget-about-me/

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Karate Kid - The Training Montage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zamE9cvC6u0

Just enough research book by Erika Hall:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Enough-Research-Erika-Hall/dp/1937557103

Coca Cola’s failed product - C2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_C2

Simple minds - Breakfast club soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLVqjIvokc

Rebel Ideas book by Matthew Syed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rebel-Ideas-Power-Diverse-Thinking/dp/1473613914

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In this weeks episode, we discuss fear in all its guises, and how you can learn and even embrace it to do your best work!

😱😱😱

***How rational are our fears?

What are the different types of fear we encounter?***

Is something really bad going to happen or is it our mental state holding us back?-------

• John talks about his fear of the notorious killer sharks in the Brighton sea.

• Dom talks about how he harnessed fear during his recent boxing debut.

• We find out what Taylor Swift has taught Matt about embracing fear and being true to yourself?

• How can we control the movies in our minds we play back to ourselves so we remember fear differently?

All this AND a chance to win a signed photo of Matt in his short shorts. Not to be missed, probably, take it or leave it…

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It must be Pack Unleashed!

Darkness Is Where Diamonds Form.

Jim Carrey (on fear) - Comedian

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Links:

• Jia Jiang - What I learned from 100 days of rejection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZXgApsPCQ

• Rocky Balboa - Inspirational Speechhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk82j1jQw_8

• Jim Carrey - Darkness is where the Diamond form
https://tinyurl.com/y38fp44l

• Taylor Swift - Miss Americana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40RsbcFRwNA

• Ryan Holiday - Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatesthttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01AWUTMB0/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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In this weeks episode we delve into the story you’ve all been waiting to hear, that’s right, it’s the Pack Origins Episode!

Find out how the Pack trio got to know one another, how John and Dom almost fell out over the movie Groundhog Day before their bromance blossomed, the near miss when we almost wen’t fishing together in Matt’s amazonian Canoe, before we finally came together during a workshop about Design Thinking and the Karate Kid.

And what all this has to do with a greasy saxophone player called Tim?!

We bear (almost all) in this episode and work out how our shared values and purpose became the thread which weaved us together, one high five at a time.

Sit back, grab some popcorn, and let’s go back, way back, back to a time before the Pack!

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Links from the show:

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• Tim Capello - I Still Believe (From the Lost Boys)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdaaGlyu7EQ

• Product Tank Meet-ups

https://www.mindtheproduct.com/producttank/

• Pack purpose workshop

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/purpose-workshop/

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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In episode 8 we deep dive into the value of design. We’re not just talking colouring in shiny pixels here, we’re talking about design led businesses and how to sell in the processes which can level up your organisation to superstardom status whilst keeping your customers at the heart of what you do.

How do you analyse your stakeholders and work out who your allies are?

How important is it to talk the language of business to get others on board?

And what tools can you use in your arsenal to start building advocates of design led processes from within?

Find out all this and more in this weeks episode…Oh and Dom may or may not rap some stats too.

You heard it here first…not to be missed!

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast! 

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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In episode 7 Dom and Matt talk all things innovation while John goes full on Rambo, glamping in the Sussex hills.

A lot of companies are looking for a silver bullet to innovate with. But is there such a thing?!

What does innovation actually mean?

How can you foster it from within?

And what the hell is the Fosbury Flop?!

Find out all this and more in this weeks episode jam packed with insights, opinions, witty anecdotes and anything else we can fit in to fill the time, it’s an episode not to be missed. Probably.

Let’s innovate!

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Links from the show:

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• The ten faces of innovation - David Kelley & Johnathan Littman

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002SPXET4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

• Tim Brown - Tales of creativity and play

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_tales_of_creativity_and_play?language=en

• The Fosbury Flop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosbury_Flop

• Toyota’s Kanban system

https://blog.toyota.co.uk/kanban-toyota-production-system

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Get in touch with us here:

bettertogether@ridewiththepack.com

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our sixth episode, we explore the case for when it’s time to stop thinking around your product ideas and time to put things into action. Design doing!

A lot of the time it can be easy to snuggle up in the 'comfort blanket' of endless research without committing to making anything other than documents full of theory.

We argue the point, that while design thinking is definitely valid, design doing is the way forward. Get out there earlier and test your ideas.

We discuss the Design Sprint, the ultimate hybrid of thinking and doing, and how Matt learnt the importance of getting practical while baking sourdough during lockdown.

You do not want to miss the knowledge bombs within.

Get this in your ears, pronto.

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Links from the show:

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• Malcolm Gladwell - Blink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink:_The_Power_of_Thinking_Without_Thinking

• Tim Brown - Change by design

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Change-Design-Transforms-Organizations-Innovation/dp/0061766089

• Ed Catmull - Creativity inc

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0593070097

• Design sprints with Pack

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/design-sprints/

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https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

Get in touch with us here:

bettertogether@ridewiththepack.com

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our fifth episode, we take it back to what really matters...Your Purpose!

At Pack, we're passionate about purpose and believe it should be at the core of every organisation and product. We discuss the good the bad and the ugly when it comes to purpose with Matt's funky purpose quiz and Dom hits us with his mate Harveys purpose facts which you do not want to miss.

Find out about our purpose at Pack and what helped us define it, and why it matters to us!

Find out who you are. And do it with purpose.
Dolly Parton - Country singer.

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Links from the show:

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• Pack purpose workshop
https://ridewiththepack.com/purpose-workshop

• Let my people go surfing - Yvon Chouinardhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-People-Surfing-Education-Businessman-Including/dp/0143109677

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our fourth episode, we have an extra special guest in the form of Matt 'Mills' Miller, co-founder of global product studio Ustwo and our Pack Matt's old boss!

Matt and Mills talk about the often taboo subject of giving yourself 'permission to fail'.
Expect a gritty account from the front line of running an agency, the ups the downs and everything in-between.

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Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004.

In the 16 years since, ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful products and services. Alongside designing products for the likes of Sky and Facebook, it developed Google DeepMind’s Streams app, which can be used to remotely monitor patients from hospitals, and created the phenomenally successful mobile and tablet game Monument Valley.

Mills stepped away from his operational duties at ustwo to head up adventure – which provides support, investment and a workspace for startups at its London studio – in 2017.

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Links from the show:

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• Ustwo studios:
https://www.ustwo.com/

• Mills Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/millsustwo/

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Get in touch with us here:

bettertogether@ridewiththepack.com

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our third episode, we dial things up to 88mph and land smack back in 1985, for a retrospective look at how things used to be, why the decade means so much to us and what lessons we can learn from then, to apply to product design now.

Expect big hair, even bigger rose-tinted memories of Matt's 186 PC gaming, Doms 3 hours in a blockbuster video store and a look into why John thinks Rocky 4 is without a doubt the quintessential 80s blockbuster that created the art of the Montage.

Where we're going, we don't need roads!

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Links from the show:

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• Framing John Delorean:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6256978/

• The insanity of Rocky 4:
https://tinyurl.com/y9dt73u5

• Betamax vx VHS:https://legacybox.com/blogs/analog/vhs-beat-betamax

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our second episode, we have an extra special guest in the form of John Zeratsky, co-author of Sprint (the bible on Design Sprints) and Make Time.

Our John speaks to JZ about how to embrace the new normal we're living in and make the best use of our time while everything is different, using this time to reprogram our habits and make a better version of ourselves for the future.

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Links from the show:

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• Check out all our 'New Normal' episodes here:
https://ridewiththepack.com/the-new-normal

• The Make time blog:https://maketime.blog/

• The Design Sprint book:

https://www.thesprintbook.com/

• The Design Sprint book:

https://johnzeratsky.com/

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Find us here:

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

Get in touch with us here:

bettertogether@ridewiththepack.com

& please don’t forget to subscribe and spread the word.

Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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For our first episode we look back at our video series ‘The New Normal’, a conversation led look into how things have changed for a variety of people from different walks of life and professional backgrounds during lockdown, and what the future might look like once we’re out the other side

We discuss the insights we’ve learnt from those conversations, how John bagged a celebrity author of Sprint and Make Time (John Zeratsky!) for a chat, and why Dom thinks everyone should throw in the towel and fire up Tiger King on Netflix.

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Links from the show:

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• Check out all our 'New Normal' episodes here:
https://ridewiththepack.com/the-new-normal

• How to fail podcast Episode 68:

https://tinyurl.com/y8prlnow

• Tiger King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_King

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Find us here:

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

Get in touch with us here:

bettertogether@ridewiththepack.com

& please don’t forget to subscribe and spread the word.

Peace.X

—————————

Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:

https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases

Under the creative commons 3.0 license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/