What you listen to can set the tone for your whole day. And as a designer, you have to make sure you’re priming yourself for creativity.
So this week, we asked a few of our favorite designers to recommend a song they love listening to while at work. Check out the individual contributors and their picks, and listen to the entire playlist at the bottom—it’s a designer-curated mixtape of creativity-boosting tracks.
Gretchen Anderson, Director of Product Design, Auris Surgical Robotics
Susan Dybbs, Head of Design at Collective Health
Patrice Martin, Co-Lead + Creative Director at IDEO
Joshua Porter, Principal/Co-founder of Rocket Insights
Simona De Rosa, User Researcher at Twitter
Brian Yeung, Product Design Director
Andy Budd, CEO of Clearleft
Scott Sullivan, Applied Designer at Adaptive Path
Karen McGrane, Author of Going Responsive (coming in November)
Janet Crawford, Founder of Cascadance
Abi Jones, Interaction Designer at Google
Kevin M. Hoffman, Founder Seven Heads Design
Julie Stanford, Principal at Sliced Bread Design
Catriona Cornett, Director of Product Design at SalesforceIQ
Brad Nunnally, UX Designer
Uday Gajendar, Principal UX Consultant
Dan Saffer, VP of Product at Mayfield Robotics
For the whole mixtape:
What’s your favorite song to listen to while you’re working? Tell us on Twitter: @InvisionApp.
Header photo by stuart.childs. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Margaret Kelsey leads content marketing at Appcues. Before Appcues, she built content programs for InVision’s design community for 3.5 years and has roots in painting and PR. She’s a big fan of puns, Blackbird Donuts, and Oxford commas—probably in that order.
