We welcome Virginia Museum of Fine Arts CEO Alex Nyerges for a verbal exhibit on how he and his team evaluate art exhibits, think about space, and use technology to enhance the museum experience. The VMFA is one of the nation’s top 10 comprehensive art museums with exciting and far-reaching strategic initiatives that have transformed the institution, making it more accessible, diverse, and inclusive.

Today's episode goes mach speed into the world of cybersecurity startups - MACH37 that is. A premier accelerator for cyber startups. Mike McCoy is MACH37's Director of Operations & Product Engineering and talks to us about what it takes to be a great cybersecurity company founder.

We welcome will.i.am's former CTO, Lee Kebler of Journey, to the show to talk about what the metaverse really is, virtual world building, parlaying a gaming hobby into a metaverse career, and his most recent project - Walmart Land in Roblox.

Nick & Alex welcome RVA newcomer Patrick Moran to the pod to chat about designing for streaming in relation to his company Applause, an online event platform that aims to enhance and increase engagement between music artists and their fans.

Mark Badger of CapTech joins the show to discuss how digital products are designed for transit. We chat websites, apps, overall UI/UX, and how transit authorities are evolving beyond just schedules and way finding.

Zak Brown, PhD, a Speech and Language Processing Lead at Balto, comes to us to talk about designing for contact centers. Balto Real Time offers a unique contact center coaching and monitoring product that allows managers and sales professionals to guide conversations with customers and potential customers as they happen. Come learn how it works!

Sleep is the greatest (biological) technology ever invented. On this episode we speak with Dave Weiss about how Hatch is amplifying the impact of sleep by creating products that align behavior, environment, and stimulus to help people get the most out of their shut-eye.

On this episode we chat with Mason Brown, Director of Strategy at Shockoe, on what strategy even means, the importance of it, how it shifts and changes, and how to design for it.

EVP and Head of Enterprise Digital Banking at Truist, Dan Massey, joins the show to cover the massive range of considerations one needs to manage when designing digital products for the finance industry. Whether it's the breadth and complexity of available financial instruments, the variability and diversity of the user, or the differentiation provided by the overall institution, finance ain't easy, but Dan and his team are working to make it more seamless and comfortable.

Don't bogey this episode - it's not about golf, it's about data. We talk with Eric Hanson, Sr. Director of Digital Product Design at the PGA about all things TourCast, the PGA's comprehensive content tracking product that amalgamates output from the most data driven sport in the world - professional golf.