Seaworthy

If you're a founder, entrepreneur, designer, developer, or just love innovation, we're here to teach you the best ways to build a business designed to succeed. When you listen to the Seaworthy podcast, you get access to exclusive interviews with startup founders and design leaders from companies like Dribbble, Carbon Health, Facebook, Airbnb, Abstract, and more.Connect with Andrew on Twitter

Andrew talks with Michael Seidel, Design Strategy Manager at Advocate Aurora Health, about designing a system of care and the accelerated innovation of telehealth. They discuss using evidence-backed research to create products and creating holistic experiences for patients across various platforms.

When you're a one-person crew, how do you prioritize tasks to make the most impact? How do you keep your head up in a sea of to-dos? Andrew talks with Pete Bernardo, Founder of Punchlist, about starting a company from the ground up on your own.

Andrew talks with Scott Sambucci, CEO and Founder of SalesQualia, on how to leverage the sales process for your startup. Scott demystifies the selling, reminding entrepreneurs to stop focusing on the product - but instead, focus on the problem and the solutions their product offers.

Andrew talks with Justin Seidl of Sequoir (formerly Vertbase), about starting, scaling, and launching a crypto-startup. Justin gives a look behind his streamlined process for transferring digital assets and also discusses why the company donates a percentage of the fees back into the development of the asset through its charitable foundation.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Zack Onisko, CEO of Dribble. They discuss scaling teams and products as well as the benefits of hiring remote talent. As your business grows, how do you approach maintaining culture while building effective remote teams at the same time?

In this episode, Andrew interviews Kerem Suer, VP of Design at Carbon Health. They talk about Kerem’s journey into design, and discuss how designers can work more collaboratively and holistically with the entire product team to push businesses further.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Ben Huggins, Head of Design at Humu. They talk about Ben's journey into design and dig into using timely triggers to change behavior. They also talk about building product teams around business goals.

Andrew talks with Kyle Bragger about his path into design, tech, business, and more. Kyle is co-founder and currently running Exposure with Luke Beard. You may also be familiar with some of Kyle's other projects: Forrst, Statshot, or Thinglist.

In this episode, Andrew talks with Helen Tran, a Design Lead at Shopify. They talk about design leadership, what it takes to communicate well within a large product team, and using design to reach business goals.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Kris Eul, Director of Customer Partnerships at Kipsu. They talk about focusing on outcomes, meeting customers at the lowest point of friction, and creating delightful experiences.

In this episode, Andrew and Drew talk about on his background and how he got into design and development leading to shipping almost 40 of his own products into the wild. They discuss Drew's first experience raising funding and pitching to investors in Silicon Valley and Drew lends advice to entrepreneurs looking to raise funding.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Joe Razza on his background into design, and explores how they're democratizing data research and visualization at Knowledge Hound. We also talk about their new approach to hiring through value-based interviews as they look to scale their team and efforts up.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Jamie Wright on his history and path into technology and bots, and explores modern tools and kits that help streamline BaaBs. We also talk about his standup bot, Tatsu, and his experiences starting up a co-working space in Toledo, Ohio.

In this episode, Andrew talks with Pete about his path into UX, using intercom for segmentation, and utilizing slack bots to add value to your team.

In this episode, Andrew interviews Victor as they dive into the methods and benefits of using psychology and behavioral design to better serve customers. They also talk about Victor's new book about these same topics, heuristics, and more - titled Design for The Mind.

In this episode, Chris interviews Ben Bartling of Zoomshift on his entrepreneurial journey and how, along with his partner Jon, they've been able to bootstrap their startup in Wisconsin.

In this episode, I interview Brian Reath of Handshake. We talk about how Handshake has grown by focusing on their customers' success and balancing and prioritizing attention in their three-pronged market. We also discuss his time at CCI in a more corporate environment and how that translated into his startup endeavors and success.

In this episode, Andrew and Chris interview Ben Johnson of Elegant Seagulls. The discussion explores the value that design storytelling, empathy, and differentiating your brand (business, startup, or brand) can create. Communication, messaging, and marketing all play a huge role in user experience. They also talk about The Jack Dusty Experiment, a successful testament to Elegant Seagull's approach to experimentation and storytelling.

We discuss why you should fall in love with the problem and dig deeper beyond user requests. We also share a couple examples of our experiences with small requests that led to big gains. Learn more about customer problem interviews and using the 5 whys in your projects.

Andrew & Chris discuss different methods, strategies, tools and tactics you can use to start validating and mitigate the risk of pursuing your ideas.

Andrew and Chris introduce themselves, the podcast and Headway.