Talks

Since 2015, Design Matters has shared design stories, inspiring and educating designers from all over the world. Here you can find all the talks from the Design Matters conferences as well as exclusive video content such as interviews and extra talks.

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2025 - Tokyo

Panel discussion (Local Heroes to Global Icons)

Philip Linnemann, Kontrapunkt

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2025 - Tokyo

From Zero to One: Building Products That Solve Real Problems

Jay Demetillo, Canva

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2025 - Tokyo

Future sight in design: Using process and context to solve the right problems

Cheryl Platz, Independent

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2025 - Tokyo

The Last Designer

Tey Bannerman, McKinsey & Company

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2025 - Tokyo

How to Work With Stupid People.

Chaz Spears, Google Beam

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The Paradox of Scrappy, Fast and Beautiful: How a world in crisis for children can make design superpowers uneasy

Erika Díaz Gómez, Unicef Office of Innovation

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2025 - Tokyo

AI Will Replace the Hands. Not the Mind.

James Hsu, Crunchyroll

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2025 - Tokyo

Designing a Hopeful Future

CJ Hostetter, Studio TERRANOVA

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2025 - Tokyo

BLOOMS: swimming in the intersection of fields

Wendy Chua, Forest & Whale | University of Arts Singapore

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2025 - Tokyo

What Happens To Design When Every Pixel Can Think?

Gleb Kuznetsov, Brain Technologies, Inc.

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2025 - Tokyo

How AI is Reshaping Design Leadership and Culture: Courage, Clarity, and Action in Times of Change

Harrison Wheeler, LinkedIn

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2025 - Tokyo

Introduction to the ‘Local Heroes to Global Icons’ segment

Philip Linnemann, Kontrapunkt

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2025 - Tokyo

How does Yonex tell a consistent brand story across performance gear, ambassadors, and digital campaigns

Casey Yoneyama, Yonex Co., Ltd

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2025 - Tokyo

Re-sensualizing our built environment

Frederik Alexander Werner, Norm Architects | Karimoku Case

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2025 - Tokyo

Introduction to Sony and the Sony Creative Center

Daigo Maesaka, Sony Group Corporation

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2025 - Tokyo

Towards middle grounds: Finding harmony in creative process

Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, Penpot

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2025 - Tokyo

Now is the Time of Monsters: An Ideascape for the Future of Design

Cheri Flewell-Smith, Torrens University Australia

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2025 - Tokyo

From Double-Diamond to Reverse Double-Diamond: Designing in the AI Era

Ben Shih, Miro

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2025 - Tokyo

What can graphic designers do in the era of climate crisis?

Minami Hirayama, Independent

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2025 - Tokyo

Maimee Rice Commons: designing rice paddies by the people, with the people, and for the people of Tsujido

Kenta Kondo, Jitabata

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2025 - Tokyo

WE ARE (NOT) HUMANS: a shift to Nature-Centered Design

Carla Paoliello, FBAULisboa/CIEBA

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2025 - Tokyo

Sustainable UX the Japanese Way: Merging Tradition with Innovation

Evan Yifan Liu, The Japan Research Institute, Limited

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2025 - Tokyo

Building unstoppable cross-functional partnerships

Iban Benzal, Wise

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2025 - Tokyo

Invisible Advantage: The ROI of Responsible & Ethical Design

Asuka Kondo, D4V