Episode 240: Designing for Play & Delight with Richard Ward

Can play and delight be an afterthought? Or must they be integral to a product from day one? Our guest today is Richard Ward, chief design officer at Otter.ai. You'll learn how to balance designing for delight and utility, how to bring joy to product users, ways to get design inspiration, and more.

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Show Notes

• Otter.ai — Richard’s place of work
• Frog Design, MetaLab — famous design agencies
• Donut, Bonusly — examples of playful tools
• Episode 91: Meaningful Motion in UX with Adrian Zumbrunnen
• Pitch — a presentation design tool
• Dribble, Product Hunt, Design Sprint Kit — resources for design inspiration
• Outline — Google’s tool for VPN
• Page Flows — a collection of UX flows
• Retool — a tool for quickly building internal tools
• Careers at Otter.ai
• Otter.ai free trial

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