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From host Andrew J. Mason: Randy shares his refreshing, thoughtfully disciplined approach to productivity. Using restraint as an superpower, Randy attributes the accumulated benefit of his second-brain to “sticking with it" in OmniFocus for over a decade. Randy and Andrew talk about “daisy-chaining” workflows, the power of complete capture in OmniFocus, and the benefit of restraint to avoid over-building your system.

Interview with Steven Heller on NFTs, designers' roles in Web3, and my Beige Climate drawings.

From host Rachel Weissman: "We dive into experiences that can unexpectedly elicit joy at work – like discovering and operationalizing a new strength or helping to bring someone else’s vision to life – as well as more intentional practices you can use – like getting clarity on your convictions through open conversation with people you trust."

A conversation with AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson about design leadership, culture, and what's next in design.

Contributions on building design-led culture at Grab for this research project led by DesignSingapore Council and ROHEI Learning & Consulting

Designing for Humans by Learning from Ground Truths

Singapore URA's (Urban Redevelopment Authority) publication interview on changing work habits, shifts in office culture, and Singapore compared to New York City.

What mindset and skills aide someone joining UX from unrelated disciplines? Along with two other designer leaders, addressing the topic of UX career development through various perspectives.

Fireside chat with UXDX founder Catherine Madden focused on lessons learned building and leading teams in new markets.

The SG Mark is awarded to individuals and organisations whose innovative and exceptional designs spur the imagination and enhance our day-to-day lives.

Design For/In/With: An open sharing of observations and lessons learned after two years working in Southeast Asia.

Closing keynote for fellows and mentors

The President*s Design Award (P*DA) is Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines. It recognises the achievements of an extraordinary group of people making a difference to the lives of Singaporeans and the global community through excellent design.

Fireside chat with, poet, policymaker and polymath Aaron Maniam to shed light on resilience in moments of crisis and when taking a long view of systems.

The SG Mark is awarded to individuals and organisations whose innovative and exceptional designs spur the imagination and enhance our day-to-day lives.

Design Business Chamber Singapore’s Design for Good Open Call attracted over 120 entries within two weeks and six promising projects are selected for funding, project development & rapid prototyping.

"Steven Heller checks in with Randy J. Hunt in Singapore. As he discusses below, Hunt is head of design at Grab, where he leads a team of designers, writers and researchers who create Southeast Asia’s Super App."

What's Next in 2020

Plans are lies, so let's keep planning.

Presented by GovTech Singapore

keynote

A conversation on "Time Well Spent"

Updated edition of my first book with expanded content and revised illustrations.

T-shirt design for Ghostly International

As the new Head of Design for Grab, I gave an address to both the Grab design team and the local design community about Grab's design leadership looking forward.

Discussion with Jessica Helfand and Michael Beirut, centers around designing for online communities and e-commerce.

Guest lecture for MBA students on design and business.

Served on the selection committee for the National Design Award, given by Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the highest design honor in the U.S.A.

A talk titled "What's Design Worth?"

A talk titled: We Can Make Anything

Keynote: An Inspiring Total Experience

Panel discussion at my alma mater: a career in the arts.

Fireside chat with Etsy CTO John Allspaw

Fireside chat with Lara Hanlon, IBM Design, discussing design & brand at scale.

Short interview for ACU Art + Design

VP of Design at Etsy, Randy J. Hunt, explores how design is the bridge between fantasy and reality. We dream of grandiose realities that seem out of reach because the beauty of imagination is that it’s limitless. And yet, there are many people who are able to not only explain their fantasy, but also bring it to life. Such a skill is possible for anyone with an imagination and a determination to make it happen.

Lecture and workshop "All That Design Is"

Talk titled "What if?"

Fireside chat on the role of data in prototype inspiration and validation.

Presented a talk "From Cave Drawings to Snapchat: The Modern Designer's Toolkit"

"It depends" recorded live at Etsy.

Gave an intimate open sharing about working with other executives to attendees of the retreat.

Shared the process behind developing Etsy's brand strategy and evolved identity.

Sharing on how the design systems and illustration practice at Etsy operates.

Presented at this indie gaming conference on the human qualities communicated through handmade work.

Topics: organising teams, effective over clever, research, value of small frequent change

A forward essay for Lara Hogan's book on balancing aesthetics and speed in software design. Cake-baking makes an appearance as metaphor.

Etsy received the National Design Award for Corporate & Institutional Achievement, the highest design honor in the U.S.A.

Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."

Presented together with Jay Carlson on Etsy's design evolution since 2010, how we grew from a scrappy team of two to a leading design team in tech.

Talk and panel as part of a salon title "The Object, Online" curated by Paola Antonelli.

Talk titled "Learning Data-Informed Design" shared highlights and lowlights from a four-and-a-half year journey at Etsy of learning to work with analysts, data engineers, user researchers, and market research to inform design decisions, while integrating product design into the development process.

On data-informed design

Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."

Sharing with the local start-up community how Etsy approaches design and product development.

Visiting designer lecture

Frenemies! A Panel Discussion on the In-House/Agency Relationship

An article for Fast Company's Innovation by Design section. "Clever is nice, but effective interfaces matter more. Here, Etsy’s Creative Director Randy J. Hunt explains why."

Book published by New Riders. John Maeda called it "the book on product design."

Presented highlights from the book Product Design for the Web

Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."

Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."

Talk on building marketplaces

Gave a talk about listening, both to customers and colleagues, titled "Eight Ways We Listen at Etsy."

Created and emcee'd the presentation "Rinse & Repeat: Principles of Design at Etsy," featuring ten members of Etsy's design team sharing process and output from brand, research, and product design.

Discussion on creative direction, formal education, getting hired at a tech company.

Shared Etsy's approach to design and continuous deployment.

Shared Economy panel moderator

Guest presenter at the Dutch media event.

Presented "A Path to Total Design" to advertising and marketing executives.

Keynote: Total Design at Etsy

Panel discussion: "Jumpstart: Concept to Reality"