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by Chris Whyte | Kodu
Why Design is a podcast exploring the stories behind hardware and physical product development. Hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu, the show dives into the journeys of founders, senior design leaders, and engineers shaping people and planet-friendly products.Formerly "The Design Journeys Podcast", each episode uncovers pivotal career moments, lessons learned, and behind-the-scenes insights from industry experts. Whether you’re a designer, engineer, or simply curious about how great hardware products come to life, Why Design offers real stories, actionable advice, and inspiration for anyone passionate about design and innovation.Join us as we listen, learn, and connect through the stories that define the world of physical product development.
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- 2 weeks ago27 min
Why Great Design Isn't Enough to Win Work | Tim Perry
What if the last 5% of craft you are chasing is the part your clients will never notice?In this episode of Why Design, Tim Perry shares the belief that sits at the heart of his work: once you have cleared the quality bar, commercial skills make the biggest difference to your success. He has seen it from both sides, from designing the Fairy Liquid bottle to running design strategy at Nokia and growing a packaging consultancy to around 100 people.Rather than stay on the tools, Tim chose to learn how to bring work in. That decision led to promotions, a partnership, the sale of the business, and the training he now runs for designers who find themselves facing clients without ever being taught how.This conversation isn't about sales tricks. It's about the side of design that decides who gets the work.This is a condensed re-cut of our 2025 conversation, recorded live at Blue Garage in Lewisham.Don't just listen. Go beyond the podcast.Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesignWhat You'll Learn🎯 Why chasing the last 5% of craft rarely moves the needle with clients📊 What a LinkedIn poll of designers revealed about what clients actually notice🧴 How designing the Fairy Liquid bottle meant shaving fractions of a cent at huge scale🪟 Why taking the products off the shelves got clients buying strategy🤝 How bringing in work took Tim from designer to running the consultancy✋ What one firm no taught Tim about negotiating with clientsMemorable Quotes“I've yet to meet anybody who likes being sold to, right? Nobody likes it.”“My design education had not prepared me for this side of business at all.”“We had plastic bottles on glass shelves with spotlight shining on them like they were museum pieces.”“people will keep on asking and asking and asking until they hear a firm no.”“It's actually augmenting that with commercial skills.”Resources & Links🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon → whydesign.club👥 Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesign📸 Follow @why.design_ on Instagram🎥 Watch full episodes → YouTube.com/@whydesignpod🔗 Follow Chris Whyte → linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte🔗 Explore TP Consulting🔗 Connect with Tim PerryAbout the EpisodeWhy Design is powered by Kodu, a specialist recruitment partner for the hardware and physical product development industry.Through honest conversations with designers, engineers and creative leaders, we explore not just what they build but why they build it; the beliefs, decisions and responsibility behind meaningful work.About KoduWhy Design is produced by Kodu, a recruitment partner for ambitious hardware brands, design consultancies and product-led start-ups.We help founders and leadership teams hire exceptional talent across industrial design, mechanical engineering and product leadership bringing structure and clarity to one of the hardest parts of scaling.🔗 Learn more → teamkodu.comThis episode is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare. Kodu, is running the hiring. Recruiting for Vax for more than ten years, placing over fifty people including a VP of Engineering and a Head of Design. We know how they build. Right now they’re rebuilding their UK engineering and innovation function from the ground up: advanced development, design engineering and industrial design, all at once. We haven’t seen them move at this pace in a decade of working with them.Mentioned in this episode:VAX
- 3 weeks ago43 min
Your Startup Isn't Special. Here's Why Most Fail | Sera Evcimen (Special Feature)
What if the decision that sinks your hardware startup is one nobody remembers making?In this episode of Why Design, Sera Evcimen shares the belief that sits at the heart of her work: most hardware failures are predictable, and the people who talk honestly about their mistakes are the ones others can actually learn from.Rather than staying on one company's payroll, Sera chose to move through startup after startup, from CubeSats to fusion to robotics, and then to go in alongside founders as a hands-on partner. That decision led to Pratik, The Builder Circle podcast and a hardware community that now spans Boston and London.This conversation isn't about startup statistics.It's about the hidden chain reaction between a product decision, a hiring decision and a company strategy.Think of it as the highlights reel. Same conversation, fewer detours, every point that still matters.Don't just listen. Go beyond the podcast.Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesignWhat You'll Learn 🏭 Why your first operations hire ends up choosing your manufacturing strategy for you🔧 How the in-house decision gets made by accident, one purchase at a time🧭 What hardware-savvy VCs respect in founders who name their own risks🗺️ How to map skills to build milestones before you write a job description⚙️ Why tribology explains so many gearbox and bearing failures🤝 What actually works for engineers who find networking uncomfortableMemorable Quotes "If you hire too early, it will basically make the decision for you in a way.""There's no such thing as bad PR. When you're a startup there is.""I always joke that I'm the happiest when I'm crawling on the floor of a factory floor.""Community is the lifeline for hardware.""I would say focus more on being interested than interesting."Resources & Links 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon → whydesign.club 👥 Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesign 📸 Follow @why.design_ on Instagram🎥 Watch full episodes → YouTube.com/@whydesignpod 🔗 Follow Chris Whyte → linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte 🔗 Explore Pratik → pratikdev.com 🔗 Connect with Sera Evcimen → linkedin.com/in/seraevcimen About the Episode Why Design is powered by Kodu, a specialist recruitment partner for the hardware and physical product development industry.Through honest conversations with designers, engineers and creative leaders, we explore not just what they build — but why they build it; the beliefs, decisions and responsibility behind meaningful work.About Kodu Why Design is produced by Kodu, a recruitment partner for ambitious hardware brands, design consultancies and product-led start-ups.We help founders and leadership teams hire exceptional talent across industrial design, mechanical engineering and product leadership —bringing structure and clarity to one of the hardest parts of scaling.🔗 Learn more → teamkodu.comSponsorThis episode is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare. Kodu, is running the hiring. Recruiting for Vax for more than ten years, placing over fifty people including a VP of Engineering and a Head of Design. We know how they build. Right now they’re rebuilding their UK engineering and innovation function from the ground up: advanced development, design engineering and industrial design, all at once. We haven’t seen them move at this pace in a decade of working with them.
- Oct 7, 202637 min
We Ran a 32 Ton Lorry Over Our Own Prototype | Nick Ford
Why would Airbus bring in three guys in a shed at the bottom of somebody's garden?In this episode of Why Design, Nick Ford shares the belief that sits at the heart of his work: that a small, curious team brought in at exactly the point where others get stuck will outperform a bigger one, provided it is willing to break things to learn.Rather than following an academic route into design, Nick chose the shop floor of a racing engine company, broom in hand, asking questions until the machinists taught him their jobs. That decision led to museum exhibits, an insolvency, Pipsqueak, more than a thousand jobs, and a tool Airbus uses to fit engines to wings.This conversation isn't about a career path. It's about choosing who you work for, and what you are prepared to say no to.Don't just listen. Go beyond the podcast.Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesignWhat You'll Learn 🚛 Why Nick drove a 32 ton lorry over his own prototype, on purpose🧹 How a cleaner with too many questions learned every machinist's job🏗️ Why big engineering firms hand their £10k jobs to a tiny studio✈️ What Airbus needed that only three guys in a shed could deliver💷 How Patent Box can cut corporation tax on patent profits to 10%🎓 What happens when a design studio commits to work experience for 18 yearsMemorable Quotes "But what I loved about being a cleaner is that I wasn't a threat to anyone.""Children are the most constructive and the most destructive force known to man.""And so it's very easy to be popular if you're selling pound coins for 50p.""We are there to make our clients look good. period. If we can't do that, we are failing.""if you don't understand IP, you don't understand business."Resources & Links 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon → whydesign.club👥 Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesign📸 Follow @why.design_ on Instagram🎥 Watch full episodes → YouTube.com/@whydesignpod🔗 Follow Chris Whyte → linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte🔗 Explore Pipsqueak Developments → pipdev.co.uk🔗 Explore Patent Ferret → patentferret.co.uk🔗 Connect with Nick Ford → linkedin.com/in/nick-ford-psAbout the Episode Why Design is powered by Kodu, a specialist recruitment partner for the hardware and physical product development industry. Through honest conversations with designers, engineers and creative leaders, we explore not just what they build, but why they build it; the beliefs, decisions and responsibility behind meaningful work.About Kodu Why Design is produced by Kodu, a recruitment partner for ambitious hardware brands, design consultancies and product-led start-ups. We help founders and leadership teams hire exceptional talent across industrial design, mechanical engineering and product leadership, bringing structure and clarity to one of the hardest parts of scaling. 🔗 Learn more → teamkodu.com
- Sep 30, 202623 min
AI has not replaced the design skill. It just changed who has access to it: A Why Design Guide to AI
This compilation pulls together four Season 4 guests, a CEO, two design and innovation leaders, and a design consultancy owner, on where AI genuinely helps a hardware or design business: faster prototyping, a levelled playing field for smaller teams, a design process that runs like a loop. Every one of them also draws a line around what they're not ready to hand over: sketching, hiring judgement, the discipline to not chase every shiny new tool.This is a short cut, roughly three and a half minutes, because that's the honest amount of verified, on-topic AI material Season 4 actually contains. No trailer, no host narration. Just four guests, in their own words.Join the Why Design community to keep the conversation going: teamkodu.com/whydesignThis episode is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare.Kodu, is running the hiring. Recruiting for Vax for more than ten years, placing over fifty people including a VP of Engineering and a Head of Design.We know how they build. Right now they’re rebuilding their UK engineering and innovation function from the ground up: advanced development, design engineering and industrial design, all at once. We haven’t seen them move at this pace in a decade of working with them. Planning to interview for them with us? Here is what you need to know: VAX UKWhat You'll Learn in this episode:🔓 Why AI and cheaper design tools have removed the innovation monopoly that big organisations used to hold✏️ Why an EVP of Industrial Design still won't hire on sketching skill alone if it's been replaced by an AI tool🔁 What generative design looks like when a team, not software, runs the iteration loop📈 Why a design consultancy owner treats the current AI moment like the dot-com era: worth testing, not worth betting the business model on🚩 Why a CV or an application that reads as AI-polished can be a red flag rather than a strengthMemorable Quotes"That has gone. You can design, prototype, innovate." — Will Butler-Adams OBE, Brompton"If you can't communicate by sketching, that's a huge disadvantage." — Tylan Tschopp, Westinghouse"It isn't chat GBT and it's got some left-of-field odd things in it." — Will Butler-Adams OBE, Brompton"It reminds me of the dot com days." — Paul Metaxatos, Motive Design"It's working as a full organism where people don't fight for your idea." — Joachim, FutureWaveResources & Links 🎙️ Why Design podcast: whydesign.club👥 Join the community: teamkodu.com/whydesign📸 Instagram: @whydesignxkodu▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@whydesignpod💼 Chris Whyte: linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyteAbout the EpisodeAI Doesn't Replace the Craft | Why Design: AI is a compilation episode of Why Design, the podcast hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu. Each episode brings together founders, engineers, and design leaders working at the frontier of physical product to talk honestly about what it takes to build hardware teams that ship.About KoduKodu is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to physical product development.We connect hardware brands and design consultancies with the very best design and engineering talent, from industrial designers and mechanical engineers to senior leaders across product, technology, and R&D.Our clients range from well-funded start-ups and scale-ups under investor pressure to deliver, through to established businesses building serious hardware or innovation arms. They share a common challenge: they need to hire people who have actually built physical products before, and they cannot afford to get it wrong.Average time-to-offer: 5 to 6 weeks on senior hardware roles. Retention at 12 months: 97%. All-time NPS: +92.Learn more: teamkodu.com
- Sep 23, 202638 min
Raising too much money can be Dangerous: A Why Design Guide to Fundraising and Investment
What does two million pounds actually buy a hardware founder, and what does it cost?This compilation pulls together nine Season 4 guests, founders, owners and senior leaders building physical products, on the money side of the business they don't usually put in the pitch deck: the near miss on running out of cash, the grant that only exists for companies younger than theirs, the licence that handed away creative control, and the acquisition or private ownership that bought speed a round never could.No trailer, no host narration in this cut. Just nine guests, in their own words, on raising, not raising, and what it actually costs to keep control of what you built.Join the Why Design community to keep the conversation going: teamkodu.com/whydesignWhat You'll Learn 💸 Why raising too much too early can do more damage than raising too little📉 How one bad round pushed a bike brand to sell at a loss until it went bust📝 What a public grant's age rules can cost a growing hardware company😴 Why staying debt-free changes how a founder sleeps at night🤝 How an acquisition can hand a small business resources no round can match©️ What licensing an invention actually costs a designer in creative control💰 Why revenue generation from day one is a deliberate alternative to raising⚡ How private ownership lets a leadership team commit fully instead of stopping and startingMemorable Quotes "Soon you're a puppet.", Paul Metaxatos, Motive Design"It wouldn't work. No, it just wouldn't work. We're too long term.", Will Butler-Adams OBE, Brompton"Really the fundraise is just ridiculous.", Joachim, FutureWave"I'm not eligible anymore to this public funding.", Remi, Diplik / Bitpong"This is my main job now, albeit one with zero salary.", Paul Marshall, Rapid Fluidics"We've got to grow to survive. That's how a business survives, is risk by growth.", Paul Marshall, Rapid FluidicsResources & Links 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon - https://whydesign.club/ 👥 Join the Why Design community - https://teamkodu.com/whydesign/ 📸 Follow @whydesign on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/why.design_/ 📸 Follow @_whydesign on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@_whydesign 📸 Follow @kodurecruitment on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kodurecruitment/ 🔗 Follow Chris Whyte on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte/ About the Episode The Money Side of Hardware | Why Design: Investment and Fundraising is a compilation episode of Why Design, the podcast hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu. Each episode brings together founders, engineers, and design leaders working at the frontier of physical product to talk honestly about what it takes to build hardware teams that ship.About Kodu Kodu is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to physical product development.We connect hardware brands and design consultancies with the very best design and engineering talent, from industrial designers and mechanical engineers to senior leaders across product, technology, and R&D.Our clients range from well-funded start-ups and scale-ups under investor pressure to deliver, through to established businesses building serious hardware or innovation arms. They share a common challenge: they need to hire people who have actually built physical products before, and they cannot afford to get it wrong.Average time-to-offer: 5 to 6 weeks on senior hardware roles. Retention at 12 months: 97%. All-time NPS: +92.
- Sep 16, 202620 min
Why you are getting rejected even before the Interview - A Why Design Guide on Getting Hired
What if the CV you keep polishing for the fourth time is the reason you're not getting hired?Eight guests: from a Brompton CEO to a first-time founder, all landed their roles a different way than the job board suggests. Not one of them talks about the perfect CV. They talk about the novice's mindset that got them in the door, the adjacent title they applied for anyway, the portfolio habit that decides a candidate's fate before anyone reads a word, and the ten-year-old question that tells you whether you're even chasing the right career.This short compilation strips out all the usual advice about formatting your CV and keyword-matching a job spec, and replaces it with eight much harder, much more useful questions to ask yourself instead.Got a hiring story of your own, on either side of the table? Follow Why Design and tell us which guest's advice you needed to hear this week.This episode is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare. Kodu, is running the hiring. Recruiting for Vax for more than ten years, placing over fifty people including a VP of Engineering and a Head of Design. We know how they build. Right now they’re rebuilding their UK engineering and innovation function from the ground up: advanced development, design engineering and industrial design, all at once. We haven’t seen them move at this pace in a decade of working with them.What You'll Learn📄 Why the perfect CV can be a warning sign, not a strength🎯 How to widen your job search beyond the exact title advertised👀 What hiring managers actually look at first in a portfolio✏️ Why sketching still beats software when you need to communicate fast🌱 What it takes to be noticed as a junior in a consultancy🙋 Why taking the role nobody else wants can pay off🧭 How to know your own working style before you choose a path🔁 Why career breaks and non-linear starts are not a disadvantageMemorable Quotes“We're all a bit fricking weird. Great. Come on board.” (Will Butler-Adams OBE, Brompton)“I am a stereotypical industrial designer in the fact that I will look at the portfolio first and I will read absolutely none of it at first.” (Tylan Tschopp, Westinghouse)“I would encourage people to... apply for jobs that are adjacent... because sometimes you're looking for someone who has a little bit of a superpower that's outside of the job description.” (Rich Thrush, Guitar Center)“Apply to everything, go to as many interviews as you possibly can physically fit in, just to actually see how other companies operate.” (Paul Marshall, Rapid Fluidics)“That's your flow. And if that happens to be making stuff and designing stuff, you're great to go... because frankly, you'll never work another day in your life.” (Mark Sanders)“Take confidence in the fact that you probably know more than the people who are trying to recruit you.” (Vicky Lofthouse, Enable Sustainability)Resources & LinksResources and LinksNewlane : https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E1EN:ABLE Sustainability: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E2Guitar Center: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E3FutureWave: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E4Diplik: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E5Brompton Bicycles: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E6Rapid Fluidics: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E7Westinghouse: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E8Motive Design: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E9MAS Design Products Ltd. : https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E10🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon - https://whydesign.club/👥 Join the Why Design community - https://teamkodu.com/whydesign/📸 Follow @whydesign on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/why.design_/📸 Follow @_whydesign on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@_whydesign📸 Follow @kodurecruitment on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kodurecruitment/🔗 Follow Chris Whyte on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte/About the EpisodeYour CV Isn't Supposed to Be Perfect | Why Design: Being Hired (Season 4) is a compilation episode of Why Design, the podcast hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu. Each episode brings together founders, engineers, and design leaders working at the frontier of physical product to talk honestly about what it takes to build hardware teams that ship.About KoduKodu is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to physical product development.We connect hardware brands and design consultancies with the very best design and engineering talent, from Industrial Designers and Mechanical Engineers to senior leaders across Product, Technology, and R&D.</
- Sep 9, 20264 min
How this Company Is Revolutionising Engineering One Messy Home at a Time - A Special Feature on VAX
What if the hardest engineering problem in the room is also the one nobody wants to admit they'd be proud of?In this episode of Why Design, Chris Whyte shares the belief that sits at the heart of Kodu's work with Vax: that some of the most demanding engineering jobs are hiding inside products nobody dreams of designing.Rather than dress this up as a neutral interview, Chris chose to disclose the commercial relationship upfront and make the case anyway. That decision led to an unusually direct pitch for a very real, very live hiring mandate.This conversation isn't about vacuum cleaners. It's about what it takes to rebuild an entire engineering function from a blank sheet, and who actually wants that job.Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesign What You'll Learn🏭 Why Vax's 1977 origin story, a milk churn, a shower pump and a water heater, still shapes how the company thinks about engineering today🔧 Why a vacuum cleaner is a harder engineering problem than most products “with a badge on them”📈 How a fifteen billion dollar parent company with Milwaukee, Ryobi, AEG and Hoover under its roof ended up leaning on one site in Droitwich🌊 How Droitwich earned the group's global lead on fluid dynamics, not just the UK's🎯 Why Chris thinks a deliberately loose brief beats a secure, well-defined one🚪 Who should not apply, according to the person running the searchMemorable Quotes"I've recruited for Vax for more than 10 years. Over 50 people, including a VP of engineering and a head of design.""Nobody grows up wanting to design a vacuum cleaner.""It's a harder engineering problem than most of the things with badges on them. It just does not look like one from the outside.""You build the team rather than join it. People going in now set how this works. It does not come around twice at the same company.""It will not suit everyone, and I would rather say so now."Resources & Links🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon → whydesign.club 👥 Join the Why Design community → teamkodu.com/whydesign 📸 Follow @why.design_ on Instagram🎥 Watch full episodes → YouTube.com/@whydesignpod 🔗 Follow Chris Whyte → linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte 🔗 See every live Vax role → teamkodu.com/jobs About the Episode"Why Design is powered by Kodu, a specialist recruitment partner for the hardware and physical product development industry.""Through honest conversations with designers, engineers and creative leaders, we explore not just what they build, but why they build it; the beliefs, decisions and responsibility behind meaningful work."About Kodu"Why Design is produced by Kodu, a recruitment partner for ambitious hardware brands, design consultancies and product-led start-ups.""We help founders and leadership teams hire exceptional talent across industrial design, mechanical engineering and product leadership, bringing structure and clarity to one of the hardest parts of scaling."🔗 Learn more → teamkodu.com Sponsor CopyFull disclosure: this one is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare, and it's Kodu, my own company, running the hiring. So you know exactly what you're reading.
- Sep 2, 202620 min
Why the Perfect CV Is the Wrong Hire, A Why Design Guide on Hiring (SN 4 Recap)
What if the candidate who looks perfect on paper is exactly the one you shouldn't hire?Eight Season 4 guests, from a bike brand to an industrial giant to three small hardware studios, keep landing on the same answer from completely different directions. The flawless CV, the fixed job spec, and the polished portfolio are the least reliable signal in the room.What actually predicts a good hire is fit, curiosity, and how someone handles a question they weren't ready for, whether that's a new hire asking what to do, a job title that almost puts the right person off applying, or a founder telling a candidate outright that the business isn't for them.Join the Why Design community to keep this conversation going, and to hear how other hiring managers in physical product are solving the same problem.This episode is sponsored by Vax and TTi Floorcare. Kodu, is running the hiring. Recruiting for Vax for more than ten years, placing over fifty people including a VP of Engineering and a Head of Design. We know how they build. Right now they’re rebuilding their UK engineering and innovation function from the ground up: advanced development, design engineering and industrial design, all at once. We haven’t seen them move at this pace in a decade of working with them.What You'll Learn🔍 Why the candidates who look imperfect on paper often make the better hire.🗣️ How to spend most of an interview on the person, not the portfolio.🧩 Why building a team around available talent beats writing a fixed job spec.🏷️ What one wrong word in a job title does to your candidate pool.🧭 Why independence matters more than hand holding on a small team.🎯 How to spot the fit that actually predicts whether someone stays.⚙️ Why a specialist hire is sometimes worth more than a confident generalist.Memorable Quotes"It's the grit in the oyster that creates the pearl." Will Butler-Adams, Brompton (S4E06)."If you knew, you wouldn't be hiring that." Will Butler-Adams, Brompton (S4E06)."That tends to be a unicorn every time." Tylan Tschopp, Westinghouse (S4E08)."What happens if you didn't have this role?" Rich Thrush, Guitar Center (S4E03)."I'm not gonna hold anyone's hand, I'm not gonna micromanage." Paul Marshall, Rapid Fluidics (S4E07)."Maybe our kind of business is not for you." Paul Metaxatos, Motive Design (S4E09).Newlane : https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E1Guitar Center: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E3FutureWave: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E4Diplik: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E5Brompton Bicycles: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E6Rapid Fluidics: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E7Westinghouse: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E8Motive Design: https://www.whydesign.club/episodes/S4E9🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Amazon - https://whydesign.club/👥 Join the Why Design community - https://teamkodu.com/whydesign/📸 Follow @whydesign on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/why.design_/📸 Follow @_whydesign on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@_whydesign📸 Follow @kodurecruitment on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kodurecruitment/🔗 Follow Chris Whyte on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchriswhyte/About the EpisodeWhy the Perfect CV Is the Wrong Hire, A Why Design Guide on Hiring (SN 4 Recap) is a Season 4 compilation episode of Why Design, the podcast hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu. Each episode brings together founders, engineers, and design leaders working at the frontier of physical product to talk honestly about what it takes to build hardware teams that ship.About KoduKodu is the specialist recruitment partner for hardware and deep tech teams. We place industrial designers, mechanical engineers, and product development leaders in companies building physical products, from medtech and consumer hardware to robotics and mobility. We work with founding teams and global R&D organisations alike, and we understand what great looks like in the room, not just on paper. NPS: +92.teamkodu.com
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Why Design is a podcast exploring the stories behind hardware and physical product development. Hosted by Chris Whyte, founder of Kodu, the show dives into the journeys of founders, senior design leaders, and engineers shaping people and planet-friendly products.Formerly "The Design Journeys Podcast", each episode uncovers pivotal career moments, lessons learned, and behind-the-scenes insights from industry experts. Whether you’re a designer, engineer, or simply curious about how great hardware products come to life, Why Design offers real stories, actionable advice, and inspiration for anyone passionate about design and innovation.Join us as we listen, learn, and connect through the stories that define the world of physical product development.
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