🎙️ In this episode, we dive into the mind of Nick Cawthon — a visionary designer, researcher, and strategist at the intersection of user-centered design and enterprise-scale systems. With a career spanning influential roles in UX leadership and product innovation, Nick has helped shape digital experiences for some of the world’s most complex organizations.
Nick brings a rare blend of hands-on craft and strategic thinking to the table. As an invited speaker at SigCHI, Xerox PARC, PeopleNerds, and Lunch@Google, and an adjunct professor at CCA’s Design MBA and TRIUM Executive MBA, he’s influenced a generation of designers and strategists. He’s also a driving force behind the UX research community—open-sourcing tools like sandbox.gauge.io and anchorbox.gauge.io to make rigorous research more accessible to teams everywhere.
We talk about how AI is reshaping the UX research workflow, what design leadership looks like in the age of LLMs, and why enterprise-scale design systems need more than just good intentions—they need better tooling, governance, and culture.
🔍 Topics we cover:
Open-sourcing UX research tools
AI’s impact on product discovery
Scaling research ops in large orgs
Future of design strategy in enterprise tech
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