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Design Matters with Debbie Millman
by Design Matters Media · English
Design Matters with Debbie Millman is one of the world’s very first podcasts. Broadcasting independently for over 15 years, the show is about how incredibly creative people design the arc of their lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Robert Moor
Robert Moore discusses what trees teach about life—flourishing with others over time, trees as processes (branching, pruning, gnarling, rooting), and how complexity and imperfection can support…
9 Nov 2026 · 1h 11m · 39 chapters
Platon & Scott Dadich Part Two
The episode (Part Two) centers on Platon and Scott Dadich’s long creative collaboration and their latest book Paros, which argues for “mastering the art of living” by reclaiming calm, reflection, and…
2 Nov 2026 · 1h 14m · 25 chapters
Platon & Scott Dadich Part One
Part one of Design Matters with Debbie Millman focuses on portrait photographer and artist Platon’s career and his concerns about technology/social media, arguing that people risk surrendering…
26 Oct 2026 · 1h 2m · 23 chapters
Debra McGuire
Deborah McGuire discusses her surprising, multi-industry career at the intersection of art and business—how she moved from making fashion and jewelry to becoming a top costume designer for major TV…
19 Oct 2026 · 1h 18m · 36 chapters
Craig Elimeliah
Craig Elimeliah discusses early internet creativity, the shift from designing interfaces to designing customer experiences and tools, and what AI means for designers—especially authorship,…
12 Oct 2026 · 59m · 22 chapters
Françoise Mouly
Françoise Mouly discusses how images “develop in time,” her path from architecture to comics and printing, and her role as art editor of The New Yorker—especially how New Yorker covers are conceived,…
5 Oct 2026 · 1h 15m · 23 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Ada Limón
Ada Limón discusses how she became a poet and how poetry can bring people together, drawing on her childhood, family history, mortality, and the craft of writing (including form and risk).
28 Sep 2026 · 1h 11m · 35 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Kim Hastreiter
Kim Hastreiter discusses her life and career building Paper Magazine, a downtown New York platform at the intersection of art, fashion, music, and nightlife.
21 Sep 2026 · 1h 18m · 34 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Lidia Yuknavitch
Lydia Yuknavitch discusses how trauma shapes memory, storytelling, sex/eroticism, and the body as a site of survival and language; she also connects her life experiences to her writing process and…
14 Sep 2026 · 1h 21m · 34 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Gloria Steinem
A replay of Debbie Millman’s 2023 interview with Gloria Steinem about how her upbringing shaped her feminism and activism, moving from “origin story” details to claims about optimism, reproductive…
7 Sep 2026 · 1h 14m · 33 chapters
Best of Design Matters: C. Thi Nguyen
C. Thi Nguyen discusses what games teach about real life and the self, arguing that games are an art form that creates agency through rules, and that scoring/metrics can both enable beautiful action…
31 Aug 2026 · 1h 11m · 27 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega discusses her lifelong quest to embody emotion in performance, her doubts and neurodivergent processing, songwriting as a “mystery” that must be invited, and how her music evolved from…
24 Aug 2026 · 1h 1m · 19 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Lulu Miller
Lulu Miller discusses her career conflicts and how she learned to do deep, ethical reporting; she also revisits the origin of her book Why Fish Don’t Exist, centered on taxonomist David Starr Jordan…
17 Aug 2026 · 1h 22m · 34 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss discusses how ambition and overachievement evolved in his thinking, why people use “certainty” as coping, the downsides of fame and social apps, and the creation of his new card game…
10 Aug 2026 · 1h 25m · 28 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Debbie Millman interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, composer, and novelist Quiara Alegría Hudes about her new novel The White Hot, focusing on writing as survival, the novel’s themes (rage…
3 Aug 2026 · 1h 2m · 22 chapters
Best of Design Matters: Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini discusses facial recognition and AI in public spaces, arguing that even “accurate” systems can be abused and that society must decide what technologies it wants.
27 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m · 31 chapters
Best of Design Matters: James Dyson
Sir James Dyson discusses how frustration, failure, and relentless tinkering shaped his life and inventions—especially the bagless vacuum cleaner—and argues for engineering-design integration,…
20 Jul 2026 · 43m · 17 chapters
Laverne Cox
Design Matters live with Emmy-winning actor Laverne Cox at the Pride Book Fair, discussing her memoir Transcendent, how fame affects aspirations, and the current anti-trans dehumanization backlash…
13 Jul 2026 · 43m · 16 chapters
Craig Mod
Craig Mod (Design Matters with Debbie Millman) discusses self-worth and “belonging,” adoption and shame, emotional scarcity in relationships, and how creativity (writing, drumming, walking, and early…
6 Jul 2026 · 1h 23m · 39 chapters
Piera Gelardi
Piera Gilardi discusses “playfulness” as a practical, trainable muscle for creativity, resilience, connection, and health—contrasting it with perfectionism and performance-driven anxiety.
29 Jun 2026 · 1h 8m · 31 chapters
Maria Popova
Maria Popova discusses how to make meaning in an indifferent universe through attention, wonder, dreaming, and love; she connects science and poetry, argues against mind/body dualism, and explains…
22 Jun 2026 · 1h 1m · 23 chapters
Ann Patchett
Debbie Millman’s Design Matters episode features a conversation with novelist and bookstore owner Ann Patchett at the TED conference (Apr 14, 2026) celebrating Patchett’s 2026 TED Women Trailblazer…
15 Jun 2026 · 30m · 11 chapters
Spencer Bailey
Spencer Bailey discusses “slow media” and identity—how to make space for inefficiency in a social-media and optimization culture—while tying it to his life story, especially the 1989 United Airlines…
8 Jun 2026 · 1h 26m · 41 chapters
Michael Arden
Michael Arden’s career in theater and directing, shaped by early trauma, mentorship, and a lifelong fascination with how stage space and design create emotional connection.
1 Jun 2026 · 1h · 27 chaptersWe use cookies.They keep VO running smoothly and help us improve it. Privacy policy