AI in Product & Design
032 AI, Originality, and the Value of Expertise
Adobe's A.J. Wood joins Metsy and J to discuss originality, copyright, AI-powered workflows, and why human judgment still matters for designers and product professionals.
Modern Work
Human-Centered Leadership
031 Resilience Is a Practice, Not a Trait
Brandy Schade joins Metsy and J to explore how resilience develops through action, failure, career pivots, and community, and why navigating uncertainty requires more than individual determination.
AI in Product & Design
030 Who's Responsible for AI Upskilling?
Brandy Schade joins Metsy and J to explore AI uncertainty, strengths-based learning, and why building AI capabilities requires more than individual effort. What can leaders do to help entire product and design teams adapt?
AI in Product & Design
029 The Design Skills AI Can't Shortcut: Why Productive Friction Matters
Dallas College educators Lisa Gabriel and Sandy Harris join us to explore what happens when technology makes it easy to skip the difficult parts of learning.
AI in Product & Design
028 You Can’t Learn This in Isolation
Dallas College educators Lisa Gabriel and Sandy Harris join Metsy and J to explore what tutorials, online courses, and AI can’t fully replicate: critique, collaboration, productive friction, and the human skills product and UX professionals need.
Creative Work & Career Growth
027 Four Roles We Play in Workplace Conflict
Nikhil Wadhera joins Metsy and J to explore four workplace conflict roles and how product and UX professionals can turn silence, tension, disagreement, and directness into healthier collaboration.
UX Research & Product Strategy
026 Turning Product Conflict Into Productive Friction
Nikhil Wadhera joins us to explore product conflict, roadmap trade-offs, difficult conversations, curiosity, and healthier decisions.
Human-Centered Leadership
025 When Work Never Feels Finished
Whitney Schreck joins Metsy and J to explore how product and UX professionals can close the stress loop through completion, movement, play, connection, and small moments that help us move toward life.
Human-Centered Leadership
024 Self-Trust Is a Career Skill
Whitney Schreck joins Metsy and J to explore self-trust as a career skills, workplace relationships, and how assessments like DISC and TriMetrix can become useful career tools instead of one-time exercises.
UX Research & Product Strategy
023 Product Strategy: Are You Allowed to Ask Why?
We explored Frederic Laloux’s culture framework as a different way to evaluate workplace culture: observe it the same way you would observe a product experience. The culture around your team can either fuel great product strategy or get in its way.
Creative Work & Career Growth
022 Workmares: Workplace Culture Follows You Home
Metsy and J share real “workmares” from their careers and explore what happens when workplace stress follows you home. We examine how the culture employees actually experience can matter far more than the values a company claims to have.
Human-Centered Leadership
021 What Your Team Actually Needs From You
Anita Barraco, UX Manager at Goosehead Insurance, joins Metsy and J to explore what product and UX teams actually need from their leaders. We discuss impactful mindset shifts to help your people do their best work.