Corporate Underpants
Corporate Underpants
Podcast Description
Uncomfortable truths, hidden dynamics, and the messy underbelly of corporate life—welcome to Corporate Underpants, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on the challenges holding back great teams and ideas. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, or leader, this series is your guide to navigating office politics, aligning stakeholders, and tackling the organizational hurdles that stand between you and making a real impact.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast addresses uncomfortable truths in workplace culture, tackling themes such as UX design, stakeholder engagement, and organizational politics. Examples include stories like Jillian Hudson's experience with UX democratization and the chaos caused by misalignment in Jeff Verona's project.
Uncomfortable truths, hidden dynamics, and the messy underbelly of corporate life—welcome to Corporate Underpants, the podcast that pulls back the curtain on the challenges holding back great teams and ideas. Whether you’re a product manager, designer, or leader, this series is your guide to navigating office politics, aligning stakeholders, and tackling the organizational hurdles that stand between you and making a real impact.
At some point in a UX career, you realize the problem isn’t wireframes. It’s tornadoes.
Dr. Darren Hood has spent decades inside organizations watching projects get blown sideways by politics, confusion, shifting priorities, low UX maturity, and executives changing direction halfway through the work.
This conversation is about what senior UX work actually starts to look like once you stop focusing only on deliverables and start paying attention to organizational behavior.
We talk about stakeholder maturity, managing up, AI adoption, why “UX is dead” discourse is exhausting, and the difference between having an opinion versus having enough experience to recognize patterns.
A lot of senior UX work isn’t designing interfaces. It’s learning how to function inside chaos without becoming part of it.
Key Topics
- UX maturity beyond organizational models
- Why senior UX work becomes political
- The difference between opinion and expert opinion
- How experienced practitioners are approaching AI
- Managing stakeholder chaos and “seagull management”
- Why experienced UX people stop complaining and start reframing problems
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