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Whether you're a mid-level product pro looking to level up or just curious about how the best in the industry think and work, this podcast is for you. Join us as we explore the stories, strategies, and ideas that can help you grow and make an impact.
Inside Pocket FM's AI-Native Design Team, where Designers Now Ship Code | Hardik | Pocket FM
In this episode, I sit down with Hardik Pandya (linkedin.com/in/hvpandya/?skipRedirect=true (http://linkedin.com/in/hvpandya/?skipRedirect=true)), Design Lead at Pocket FM, to unpack what a design team looks like when it's truly AI-native — not just using AI tools, but shipping pull requests to the production repo. At Pocket FM, that's not a thought experiment. It's the current pilot.
Before Pocket FM — a company built on AI from the ground up — Hardik was at Atlassian, where he watched a large company respond full-stack to an existential AI threat. Between those two vantage points, he has one of the clearest views in the industry of how AI is actually reshaping design work, beyond the hype on social media.
In this conversation, he breaks down how Pocket FM's design team works today: every product exposed as code to the entire design team, designers building Swift prototypes by connecting Claude to Xcode, and a pilot where design picks up engineering's PR and does the final 10% of polish directly in code — effectively replacing the painful design QA process. He goes deep into how the team iterates on the production repo itself (forking ideas into plus and plus-plus versions in days, not weeks), why subjective guardrails and shared values matter more than component guidelines, and the question every designer is asking: if AI removes execution as the moat, what's actually left? His answer covers imagination, executive judgment, and why Figma's arrival created more designers — not fewer.
If you're a designer, design leader, or anyone rethinking how product teams should work in the AI era, this episode is for you.
20 Jul 2026
Designers Won't Have Job Titles in 5 Years - Mayur Chaudhary
In this episode, I sit down with Mayur Chaudhary (linkedin.com/in/mayurchaudhary/?skipRedirect=true), VP of Experience Design at Publicis Sapient, to unpack what really changes for designers when AI absorbs the craft — and why the answer isn't better tools, it's a rewired mindset.With over two decades of experience, Mayur has watched the industry evolve from Photoshop to Sketch to Figma, built and scaled design teams across nine geographies, and now operates in high-stakes consulting where clients run 770 million transactions a day. His conviction: tools are just the medium — mindset is what compounds.In this conversation, he lays out the advisor → strategist → executioner model for designers, explains why every designer should know their CFO, shares how his team shipped quarterly features written by designers as PRDs (not Figma files), and demonstrates how he built an hourly-updating industry intelligence dashboard with zero code. He also makes a provocative closing argument: we are the last generation of designers with a consistent job title.If you're a mid-level designer, design leader, or product professional trying to quantify your impact and stay relevant through the AI shift, this episode offers grounded, practical playbooks you can apply Monday morning.
1 Jun 2026
How to Build Trust in a Market That Doesn't Trust You | Varun | Product Marketing Head @ Kosh Money
What happens when you're trying to market a product in a category that doesn't fully exist yet — and the audience doesn't trust the industry you're in? That's the daily reality of Web3 product marketing, and Varun has lived it firsthand.Varun is the co-founder of Kosh Money, a Web3 payments company, and GoPMM — India's growing community for product marketers. Before that, he scaled IconScout to 2M+ users from Surat before it became a household name in the design world, and worked at Cashfree Payments where he understood what PMM looks like at enterprise scale.In this episode, we go deep into what it actually means to do product marketing in Web3 — why the traditional playbook breaks when you're selling to developers, crypto-natives, and skeptical enterprises at the same time, how you build trust when your industry carries the baggage of scams and fraud, and what it looks like to define positioning when the category itself is still being written. Varun also shares the real lessons from building IconScout — including why talking to your users with no framework and no agenda was the single biggest growth lever — and the frustration that pushed him to start GoPMM, a community built to give Indian product marketers the India-specific context they couldn't find anywhere else.If you're in PMM, growth, or building a product in a trust-deficient market, this one is for you.
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