Nick Cochran's guest appearances

Nick Cochran

Designdrives

Design Systems Podcast

Bob Baxley

Brad Frost

Dan Mall

Stephen Gates

Jina Anne

Adam Argyle

Doug Powell

Michael Seum

Jeremy Keith

Mina Markham

Josh Clark

Joey Zeledón

Michael Janda

Jason Lengstorf

Chris Jackson

OwlTail

Nick and Chris discuss standing up a design system in 2016, serving development teams that didn’t have access to designers at the time, accelerating and amplifying the value of design, freeing up designers to focus on high-value problems, considerations and tactics for driving adoption, how design systems create internal communities that bring design and developers together, building on-brand and UX-compliant apps quickly in a diverse technology ecosystem.Guest:Nick Cochran is the Design Strategy Manager at ExxonMobil, aspiring photographer, baker of artisan breads, and purveyor of dad jokes. You can find Nick on Twitter as @internick, on Instagram as @internick.photography, and on LinkedIn.Host:Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of Knapsack, host of @TheDSPod, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter as @chrisstrahl and on LinkedIn.Sponsor:Knapsack — Build without rebuilding. Learn more at knapsack.cloud about Knapsack and getting your team to 80% design and code reusability.Links:View the transcript for this episode.

Nick and Chris discuss standing up a design system in 2016, serving development teams that didn’t have access to designers at the time, accelerating and amplifying the value of design, freeing up designers to focus on high-value problems, considerations and tactics for driving adoption, how design systems create internal communities that bring design and developers together, building on-brand and UX-compliant apps quickly in a diverse technology ecosystem. Guest: Nick Cochran is the Design Strategy Manager at ExxonMobil, aspiring photographer, baker of artisan breads, and purveyor of dad jokes. You can find Nick on Twitter as <a href="https://twitter.com/internick" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@internick</a>, on Instagram as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/internick.photography/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@internick.photography</a>, and on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcochran/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. Host: Chris Strahl is co-founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.knapsack.cloud/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knapsack</a>, host of <a href="https://twitter.com/thedspod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@TheDSPod</a>, DnD DM, and occasional river guide. You can find Chris on Twitter as <a href="https://twitter.com/chrisstrahl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@chrisstrahl</a> and on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisstrahl/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. Sponsor: Knapsack — Build without rebuilding. Learn more at <a href="https://www.knapsack.cloud/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">knapsack.cloud</a> about Knapsack and getting your team to 80% design and code reusability. Links: View the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zc_Q7hAoXoLibAWawdOJ19IMZvnjf6vD/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">transcript for this episode</a>.

24. Nick Cochran from ExxonMobil: How to make doing the right thing the easy thing

In episode 30 I talk with Nick Cochran, Design Strategy Manager at ExxonMobil.During UX India we sat together and exchanged over his experiences building and growing internal design communities, resources and culture for many years. We tap intohis experience transitioning from a technical IT role into the design and being part of day one of design within the organizationwhy and how to evangelize a design-mindest within an organisation and how he helped to establish a internal design culturehow to pull in other departments into design practices and methods and empower other teams to use the same methods - building bridges with other departmentshow to grow a design community, methods, processes within an organisation and built out the infrastructure that empowers the design team to drive impacthow to communicate design value to other teams and what it can deliver to the business and the productsThis episode is in collaboration with uxindiaconf (ux-india.org) UX INDIA. More episodes from the UX India (and soon IXDA Interaction 20) are on the way.About UX IndiaUX India is a not-for-profit venture, UX INDIA is built by, built for, and sustained by its growing community of designers, enthusiasts, influencers from business, education, and governance.UXINDIA is being organized by UsabilityMatters.Org(UMO). With over 800+ attendees at UX India 2019, it was India’s largest conference on user experience design. UXINDIA™ helps to educate the next generation by bringing innovators and UX practitioners from across the world.Learn more at https://www.ux-india.org and https://www.umo.design

In episode 30 I talk with Nick Cochran, Design Strategy Manager at ExxonMobil.During UX India we sat together and exchanged over his experiences building and growing internal design communities, resources and culture for many years. We tap intohis experience transitioning from a technical IT role into the design and being part of day one of design within the organizationwhy and how to evangelize a design-mindest within an organisation and how he helped to establish a internal design culturehow to pull in other departments into design practices and methods and empower other teams to use the same methods - building bridges with other departmentshow to grow a design community, methods, processes within an organisation and built out the infrastructure that empowers the design team to drive impacthow to communicate design value to other teams and what it can deliver to the business and the productsThis episode is in collaboration with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/spark-reply/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BBX4ARuRNTjaqlc%2BPds%2Bowg%3D%3D&amp;licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base-background_details_company#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uxindiaconf (ux-india.org)</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/spark-reply/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3BBX4ARuRNTjaqlc%2BPds%2Bowg%3D%3D&amp;licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base-background_details_company#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UX INDIA</a>. More episodes from the UX India (and soon IXDA Interaction 20) are on the way.About UX IndiaUX India is a not-for-profit venture, UX INDIA is built by, built for, and sustained by its growing community of designers, enthusiasts, influencers from business, education, and governance.UXINDIA is being organized by <a href="http://UsabilityMatters.Org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UsabilityMatters.Org</a>(UMO). With over 800+ attendees at UX India 2019, it was India’s largest conference on user experience design. UXINDIA™ helps to educate the next generation by bringing innovators and UX practitioners from across the world.Learn more at <a href="https://www.ux-india.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ux-india.org</a> and <a href="https://www.umo.design/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.umo.design</a>

#30 | Nick Cochran | Driving and growing design within organisations