Finding Our Way

Peter Merholz, Jesse James Garrett

Booking Overview

An interview-led design leadership show focused on UX, design operations, organizational change, and the impact of artificial intelligence, alternating external conversations with episodes led by its two hosts. A PR agency could credibly pitch senior design executives, UX and design-operations leaders, technology strategists, authors, journalists, and founders with firsthand experience navigating AI transformation; booking difficulty is medium because guests are established specialists but generally come from a focused professional niche.

Metrics

Episodes: 76

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

jjg@jjg.net

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Host

Peter Merholz - UX design pioneer, design leadership expert, and co-founder of Adaptive Path.

Jesse James Garrett - UX design pioneer, author, and co-founder of Adaptive Path.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior design, UX, technology, or design-operations leadership; authors, journalists, and founders with firsthand experience leading organizations or services firms through technological and organizational change.

Required Achievements:

Leading design or technology organizations through transformation, Founding or running design, technology, or services firms, Writing books or substantial journalism about technology, design, or leadership

Recent Guest Discussions

Chengying "Z" Zheng - Ai-first Design Teams, Design Operations, Changing Roles And Titles, And Making Good Design Easier To Produce.

Dave Gray - Leadership Disruption, Beginner's Mind, Expertise, Corporate Work, And Defining Professional Value.

Paul Ford - Ai's Impact On Services Firms, The Falling Cost Of Software, Changing Professional Roles, Design's Value Proposition, And Adapting To Ongoing Technological Change.

Recent Topics

Design Leadership, Ux Design, Design Operations, Artificial Intelligence, Organizational Change

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Finding Our Way

76: Embrace the Chaos—Design Operations in the age of AI (ft. Z)

August 14, 2026

Peter and Jesse are joined by Chengying "Z" Zheng, who shares her experience migrating a design team to be AI-first — off Figma and into code. She discusses how design leadership and operations divide the work, what happens to roles and titles when everyone becomes a builder, and how to make good design easier than bad design. Z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/changyingz/ Z's Substack: https://changying.substack.com/ Jesse James Garrett: https://jessejamesgarrett.com/ Peter Merholz:...

75: The Steady State of Unsteadiness

July 24, 2026

Peter and Jesse compare notes from Config, Figma's AI study, Lenny's newsletter survey, and countless conversations to read the current state of design leadership. The signals: existential AI panic has cooled into exhaustion, organizational chaos and leadership churn are the new normal, and design still stumbles on business acumen. Their case for thriving—lead, don't just design, and reclaim design's unfinished mandate.

LIMINAL—4: You As A Service (ft. Dave Gray)

May 24, 2026

Dave Gray, author of Liminal Thinking and founder of School of the Possible, joins Peter and Jesse to examine what's actually getting in leaders' way right now: not the disruption itself, but the expertise that blinds them to it. The conversation moves from beginner's mind to the compression of corporate work, landing on a provocative question — what does your value look like when you define it yourself?

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