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Fireside chat with Etsy CTO John Allspaw

Fireside chat with Lara Hanlon, IBM Design, discussing design & brand at scale.

Short interview for ACU Art + Design

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.

Lecture and workshop "All That Design Is"

Talk titled "What if?"

Fireside chat on the role of data in prototype inspiration and validation.

Presented a talk "From Cave Drawings to Snapchat: The Modern Designer's Toolkit"

"It depends" recorded live at Etsy.

Gave an intimate open sharing about working with other executives to attendees of the retreat.

Shared the process behind developing Etsy's brand strategy and evolved identity.

Sharing on how the design systems and illustration practice at Etsy operates.

Presented at this indie gaming conference on the human qualities communicated through handmade work.

Topics: organising teams, effective over clever, research, value of small frequent change

A forward essay for Lara Hogan's book on balancing aesthetics and speed in software design. Cake-baking makes an appearance as metaphor.

Etsy received the National Design Award for Corporate & Institutional Achievement, the highest design honor in the U.S.A.

Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."

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.

Talk and panel as part of a salon title "The Object, Online" curated by Paola Antonelli.

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.

On data-informed design

Presenting the talk "Making, Marking, and Other Pursuits."

Sharing with the local start-up community how Etsy approaches design and product development.

Visiting designer lecture

Frenemies! A Panel Discussion on the In-House/Agency Relationship

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."

Book published by New Riders. John Maeda called it "the book on product design."

Presented highlights from the book Product Design for the Web

Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."

Presented "Nothing is Precious: Designing Web Products."

Talk on building marketplaces

Gave a talk about listening, both to customers and colleagues, titled "Eight Ways We Listen at Etsy."

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.

Discussion on creative direction, formal education, getting hired at a tech company.

Shared Etsy's approach to design and continuous deployment.

Shared Economy panel moderator

Guest presenter at the Dutch media event.

Presented "A Path to Total Design" to advertising and marketing executives.

Keynote: Total Design at Etsy

Panel discussion: "Jumpstart: Concept to Reality"