8 Best Design Podcasts to Boost Your Creativity

Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra
Published in
4 min readSep 5, 2020

8 Best Design Podcasts to Boost Your Creativity 🎧

Courtesy of @thecodegrain

Listening to music is probably one of the best options when you go on a design sprint 🎶

But once in a while, you might want to switch it up and learn something new while you design your upcoming masterpiece. ⁣⁣

So we have compiled a list of some great design podcasts to help you focus, gain inspiration, and stay entertained while you design 👍

99% Invisible

With Roman Mars

Host Roman Mars weaves together amazingly well-crafted stories of the highest production value. From brutalist architecture, to the history of the octothorpe (that’s hashtag for you millennials, or pound sign for you old-timers). Roman unpacks the impact that design has on our culture, even if you’ve never stopped to notice it before.

Design Matters

with Debbie Millman

This one is the classic. Debbie Millman is one of the pioneers of podcasting about design, and Design Matters is one of the world’s most beloved series of interviews with a broad range of leaders in the creative industry, including designers, writers, artists, curators, musicians, and others.

The Futur

by Chris Do

Candid conversations with the most interesting and inspirational people that you’ve never heard of. Host, Chris Do, interviews people from all walks of life about the fringes of design, technology, marketing and business all in hopes of changing the way you think.

The Honest Designers Show

by Design Cuts

Tom Ross, an Barnard, Dustin Lee and Lisa Glanz. Each of your hosts have found tremendous success in their own creative fields. They give you a completely honest, under the hood look at what it takes to flourish in this crazy creative vocation! You’ll discover actionable tips to land more clients, find your style, successfully brand yourself, and ultimately find satisfaction in your work.

UXPodcast

With James Royal-Lawson and Per Axbom

UXPodcastTM is a twice-monthly digital design podcast sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011. We want to push the boundaries of how user experience is perceived and boost your confidence in the work you do.

Well Made

By Lumi

Lumi founder, Stephan Ango host the Well Made podcast. Well Made focuses on designers in the ecommerce space, both from a design and product perspective. Or as Stephan puts it, it’s really just an excuse for him to “go deep with friends, entrepreneurs, designers and a few of our heroes.”

Grits & Grids

by Vigo

Our podcast taps the minds of the design industry’s greatest to learn about what makes them thirsty for great design, and hungry for more. Joseph Szala serves as the host of Grits & Grids’ namesake podcast, and through his interviews and banter, we get more personal with fantastic designers, their process, and their personalities.

The Logo Geek

With Ian Paget

In the this podcast, award winning logo design expert an Paget finds out by interviewing successful graphic designers and entrepreneurs around the world so you can learn from their experiences. Topics include logo design tips, getting clients, how much to charge, coming up with ideas, choosing fonts, portfolio mistakes, branding, online marketing and so much more!

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Ruslan Galba
@hellotegra

Increasing revenue for DTC brands via Facebook / Google ads 🚀Growth Strategist 🤘 Founder @hellotegra growth team 🤖 $5M+ profitable ad spend in 2020