Practical UX career mentorship, one conversation at a time.
Designed Today treats UX as a career path, not just a toolkit. Dylan Winspear mixes coaching-minded solo framing with guest conversations on management, empathy, accessibility, ambition, distraction, and the habits that help designers mature.
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Designed Today is a UX career show with a coaching backbone. It treats design as work done through people, tradeoffs, and personal growth. Dylan Winspear presents the show as a place to improve a designer's UX game from beginning to end. The episodes lean toward the moments when a designer has to decide what kind of professional to become next. One conversation follows the shift from individual contributor work into management, with attention to coaching, feedback, alignment documents, and the quieter forms of impact that can disappear from a portfolio. Another episode closes a soft-skills series by taking empathy seriously after the word has become industry shorthand. The discussion moves from UX research posture into broader habits of curiosity, question-asking, and understanding people beyond familiar circles. That gives the show a wider human register without losing its practical design focus. Career ambition gets treated as useful fuel, but also as something that needs balance and self-awareness. The show is especially interested in fit: not just getting hired, but finding a situation where both sides can actually help each other. Accessibility appears as a core design responsibility rather than a passing trend, with Doug Collins positioned as an accessibility expert and advocate. Product leadership also comes through, especially in the conversation with Catherine Wong about lessons learned through work and mentorship. The tone is informal but purposeful. It can be personal. It stays anchored in career movement, design community, and concrete professional habits. Designed Today also reaches beyond UX process into attention and behavior through the episode with Near, whose books Hooked and Indistractable frame questions about habits, products, and focus. The recurring pattern is clear: craft matters, but judgment matters too. Designers are asked to build skills, relationships, perspective, and resilience together. The show is strongest for listeners who want mentorship-shaped design conversations without losing touch with the day-to-day realities of interviews, teams, managers, and users.
Made for: Designed Today is for early and mid-career UX designers who want clearer judgment around career growth, interviews, soft skills, accessibility, leadership, and product work. It also fits design-adjacent professionals who care about how UX careers actually develop.
What sets it apart: The show combines UX craft with candid career coaching, treating ambition, empathy, management, and workplace fit as design skills in their own right. Its guest conversations stay grounded in professional turning points rather than abstract industry commentary.
Designed Today brings you insights to help bridge the world of Design & Business. I’ve centered my career on being the bridge between the “design eye” and the “business mind”. Learn how you can improve your design, branding, marketing, and advertising skills all in one place. In this show, we’ll explore the startup world, flexing the entrepreneurial muscles, from a User Experience perspective.
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A reflective conversation about how leadership can grow out of design work before management is actively pursued.
The move from individual contributor to manager is treated as a shift in how impact gets measured. Leadership here is not presented as pure ambition or ladder climbing, but as work that can arrive through circumstance: coaching someone through a hard challenge, giving useful…
A candid UX conversation reframes empathy as the practical work of understanding where other people come from.
Empathy can get flattened into UX shorthand, but this episode gives it a more practical shape. The conversation links a designer's curiosity to the habit of asking about people's histories, rights, and privileges, then keeps widening the frame beyond product work.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Design Today episode 111 pairs Dylan Winspear with Webflow director of design David Hong to talk about the shift from individual contributor to manager.
Empathy in UX is "downplayed" when it becomes a buzzword, and understanding can be enough.
Design Today host Dylan interviews Jared Spool about entering UX, hiring junior designers, and designing hiring processes around first-year outcomes.
Ioana Teleanu recommends applying the UX process to career decisions before choosing a mentor.
Designed Today features Uliti Fangupo describing his move from Tonga to the University of Kansas with $300, followed by a UX boot camp and 123 unsuccessful job applications.
Host Dylan Winspear introduces accessibility expert Doug Collins and promotes a free resume course for designers.
Host Dylan Winspear interviews Catherine Wong, Chief Product Officer at Domo, discussing lessons in design, business, and leadership.
The host interviews Nir Eyal, author of Hooked and Indistractable, about building habit-forming products and controlling attention.