PRISM

What are agencies looking for when hiring industrial designers, and how should you tailor your portfolio to stand out? In this episode, Anson Cheung and Cole Derby share practical tips on navigating the competitive design landscape, and how to use storytelling to highlight your skills. 

How do designers and artists overcome creative block? In the second episode of office hours, Dan discusses tips for finding inspiration when you’re in a creative rut, embracing failure as part of the process, and thinking abstractly to find unique solutions.

Humanoid robots, transparent TVs, and the latest in VR technologies. Fresh from their return from CES, Anne Van Itallie and Dan Harden take listeners on a deep dive of the latest trends in tech. 

What is the future of residential and smart home technology, and what's emerging today? In this episode, Whipsaw's Director of Experience Design, Walker Harden, and Director of Industrial Design, Cole Derby, discuss the latest trends in smart home technology and related project experiences.

A big question in the realm of design today is whether artificial intelligence is a friend or foe. Dan Harden and design visionary guest, Branko Lukic, explore the profound implications of AI for designers and the remarkable power of meditation in fostering a creative mindset.

Office Hours is a new segment on PRISM where Whipsaw CEO and Principal Designer, Dan Harden, answers questions submitted by our listeners about industrial design, business, technology, or current topics of discussion in the greater design community.Partake in a future Office Hours episode by submitting a question at whipsaw.com/prismofficehours.

How does design relate to the current state of climate change? Dan Harden, Jonsara Ruth, and Rico Ruffino evaluate the environmental impacts of design and how designers can play a role in creating a more sustainable world.

Designers are often trapped in their own design thinking principles but Cross-Cultural Design provides a guideline that all designers can embody in their work. Dan Harden and guest Lorraine Justice, Design Researcher, Speaker, Author, and Educator, touch on the importance of considering diverse cultures in their work.