Facing forward, choices look like forks in a road. In hindsight, the path is clear and coherent. This is a list of things made, done, and accomplished along that path. It sits at the intersection of filing cabinet and CV and is intermittently pruned.

2022
Interview
The Omni Show
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.
2022
Interview
The Daily Heller: Tales from the Crypto
Interview with Steven Heller on NFTs, designers' roles in Web3, and my Beige Climate drawings.
2022
Interview
Design To Be Podcast
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."
2021
Interview
AIGA Fireside Chat
A conversation with AIGA Executive Director Bennie F. Johnson about design leadership, culture, and what's next in design.
2021
Book Contribution
Design-Led Culture Playbook
Contributions on building design-led culture at Grab for this research project led by DesignSingapore Council and ROHEI Learning & Consulting
2021
Talk
Global Innovation Forum
2021
Talk
IXDC 2021
2021
Talk
DTUX 2021
Designing for Humans by Learning from Ground Truths
2021
Interview
Skyline Magazine
Singapore URA's (Urban Redevelopment Authority) publication interview on changing work habits, shifts in office culture, and Singapore compared to New York City.
2021
Talk
UX Evening @ Google
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.
2021
Talk
UXDX APAC 2021
Fireside chat with UXDX founder Catherine Madden focused on lessons learned building and leading teams in new markets.
2021
Talk
World Class Design Conference
2021
Jury
SG Mark 2021
The SG Mark is awarded to individuals and organisations whose innovative and exceptional designs spur the imagination and enhance our day-to-day lives.
2020
Talk
UXVN Festival 2020
Design For/In/With: An open sharing of observations and lessons learned after two years working in Southeast Asia.
2020
Talk
Made In The Future Summit
Closing keynote for fellows and mentors
2020
Talk
Web Directions, Product: Remote
2020
Jury
President's Design Award
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.
2020
Talk
Feed Sessions: Designing Resilient Systems
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.
2020
Jury
SG Mark 2020
The SG Mark is awarded to individuals and organisations whose innovative and exceptional designs spur the imagination and enhance our day-to-day lives.
2020
Jury
Design For Good
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.
2020
Interview
Print CoviDiaries: Remote Working With Randy J. Hunt in Singapore
"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."
2019
Talk
Sketch Kuala Lumpur Meet Up
What's Next in 2020
2019
Talk
Leading Design London
Plans are lies, so let's keep planning.
2019
Talk
MODA Design Conversation: Randy J. Hunt
2019
Talk
Stack-X: Experience Reimagined
Presented by GovTech Singapore
2019
Talk
Design4India Design Summit
2019
Talk
IXDC 2019
keynote
2019
Talk
Tech In Asia: Product Development Conference
2019
Talk
Product Management Festival
2019
Interview
Bureau of Digital
A conversation on "Time Well Spent"
2019
Project
Product Design for the Web, 2nd Edition
Updated edition of my first book with expanded content and revised illustrations.
2019
Project
Things of Quality, Remastered
T-shirt design for Ghostly International
2019
Talk
SHIFT: Design Leadership in Southeast Asia
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.
2019
Talk
In/Visible 2019
2018
Talk
Anchorage Design Week
2018
Talk
DesignThinkers
2018
Talk
Designation Conference
2018
Talk
University of Texas at Austin
2018
Talk
Abilene Christian University
2018
Talk
Rutgers University
2017
Interview
The Design of Business | The Business of Design
Discussion with Jessica Helfand and Michael Beirut, centers around designing for online communities and e-commerce.
2017
Talk
Yale School of Management
Guest lecture for MBA students on design and business.
2017
Jury
National Design Awards
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.
2017
Jury
Sappi Ideas That Matter
2017
Talk
Service Design Days
A talk titled "What's Design Worth?"
2017
Talk
Likeminds
2017
Talk
AIGA Orlando
A talk titled: We Can Make Anything
2017
Interview
Dumb Questions for Smart Designers
2017
Talk
IDSA International Conference
Keynote: An Inspiring Total Experience
2017
Talk
UCF Celebrates the Arts
Panel discussion at my alma mater: a career in the arts.
2017
Talk
O'Reilly Design Conference
Fireside chat with Etsy CTO John Allspaw
2017
Talk
OFFSET
Fireside chat with Lara Hanlon, IBM Design, discussing design & brand at scale.
2017
Interview
On Design: Randy Hunt
Short interview for ACU Art + Design
2017
Interview
O'Reilly Design Podcast
2016
Talk
Creative Mornings
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.
2016
Talk
ACU Visiting Designer
Lecture and workshop "All That Design Is"
2016
Talk
AIGA Hampton Roads
Talk titled "What if?"
2016
Talk
Prototypes, Process & Play
Fireside chat on the role of data in prototype inspiration and validation.
2016
Talk
HOW Design Live
Presented a talk "From Cave Drawings to Snapchat: The Modern Designer's Toolkit"
2015
Interview
Design Details
"It depends" recorded live at Etsy.
2015
Talk
Creative Leaders Retreat
Gave an intimate open sharing about working with other executives to attendees of the retreat.
2015
Talk
Delve: Product
2015
Talk
Made By Few
Shared the process behind developing Etsy's brand strategy and evolved identity.
2015
Interview
The Start
2015
Talk
Dallas Dribbble Meet-Up
Sharing on how the design systems and illustration practice at Etsy operates.
2015
Jury
DesignArts Utah
2015
Talk
Two5Six Conference
Presented at this indie gaming conference on the human qualities communicated through handmade work.
2015
Talk
HOW Design Live
2015
Interview
Between Screens: Code & Design
Topics: organising teams, effective over clever, research, value of small frequent change
2015
Talk
The College of New Jersey
2015
Jury
Print Celebrates Design
2014
Book Contribution
Forward for Designing For Performance
A forward essay for Lara Hogan's book on balancing aesthetics and speed in software design. Cake-baking makes an appearance as metaphor.
2014
Award
National Design Award
Etsy received the National Design Award for Corporate & Institutional Achievement, the highest design honor in the U.S.A.
2014
Talk
AIGA Denver
Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."
2014
Talk
GIANT Conference
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.
2014
Talk
MoMA R&D Salon
Talk and panel as part of a salon title "The Object, Online" curated by Paola Antonelli.
2014
Talk
Cornell Tech
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.
2014
Talk
Re:Design UXD Conference
On data-informed design
2014
Talk
AIGA Charlotte
Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."
2013
Talk
NJ Tech Meet-Up
Sharing with the local start-up community how Etsy approaches design and product development.
2013
Talk
New Hampshire Institute of Art
Visiting designer lecture
2013
Talk
InSource
Frenemies! A Panel Discussion on the In-House/Agency Relationship
2013
Article
Hey, Designers: Stop Trying To Be So Damned Clever
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."
2013
Project
Product Design for the Web
Book published by New Riders. John Maeda called it "the book on product design."
2013
Talk
Innovation Excellence
2013
Talk
AIGA National Design Conference
Presented highlights from the book Product Design for the Web
2013
Talk
Design Week Portland
2013
Talk
AIGA Austin
Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."
2013
Talk
AIGA San Antonio
Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."
2013
Talk
Design Founder Meetup
Talk on building marketplaces
2013
Talk
IDEO & First Round Capital Design & Startup Series
Gave a talk about listening, both to customers and colleagues, titled "Eight Ways We Listen at Etsy."
2013
Talk
AIGA New York
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.
2013
Talk
Meet the Pros: Design at Etsy
2013
Interview
The Industry podcast
Discussion on creative direction, formal education, getting hired at a tech company.
2012
Talk
DesignThinkers
Shared Etsy's approach to design and continuous deployment.
2012
Talk
Hello Etsy at Dutch Design Week
Shared Economy panel moderator
2012
Talk
Emerce Eday
Guest presenter at the Dutch media event.
2012
Talk
Say: Create
Presented "A Path to Total Design" to advertising and marketing executives.
2012
Talk
Digital Buffet Experience Day
Keynote: Total Design at Etsy
2012
Talk
SEGD Conference: The Bridge
Panel discussion: "Jumpstart: Concept to Reality"