Episode 026

Life after Launch: Fitness Tracking with Julie Henne

We have a very motivational first guest, Julie Henne, to dive into the designer’s impact. She has had a career for over ten years at Garmin and in that tenure, she’s explored every angle of what a designer can do. She’s been there to see product cycles through many evolutions and watched the brand expand from its main driver being the high performance athlete to a broad health and wellness category with a much more varied customer. She speaks about how to stay engaged with your work by changing perspective often and on how her steady presence in the company has gained her the trust to be a stronger advocate for the voices of women and customers generally. She learned early on that she couldn’t be the voice of every woman and actively brought more perspectives into the company. She has seen great success when projects and communication can break out of siloed company thinking and believes that designer’s ability to zoom out makes us instrumental in being part of innovation teams. Realistic and optimistic about our agency, Julie is a great person to learn from. Our guest host for this episode is the fantastic Monica Broder who was our first ever podcast guest in the episode Not your traditional Outdoorsman.