Randy J. Hunt Randy J. Hunt is the Vice President of Design at Etsy and author or Product Design for the web. In this episode we discuss his experience building and leading Etsy’s talented design team.
Episode Highlights
4:00: The state of design tools: Thoughts on collaboration, file-sharing, features, layouts, and what all of this means for the industry as a whole
7:10: Common issues that come up with collaborative design tools, and why design issues have become such a hot topic
18:00: The future of design tools: predictions
21:40: Fostering ultimate empathy for users, and what Randy discovered using only an iPad
24:45: How Randy’s background has brought him to where he is now, including how the early months of his launch went
29:40: The differences between agency work and entrepreneurship
35:00: The differences between product work vs. service work
39:20: Challenges scaling the Etsy design team
45:00: Common challenges in management and how Randy meets them head-on
49:00: Etsy’s “secret sauce”: How they attract so many talented people
