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Changing Shapes

Technologies shape culture. Our innovations shape the frameworks for how we understand the world and relate to each other. How are we doing? Brought to you by allshapes.io

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EP 9: “Wish I Thought of That” – Play Without the...

Changing Shapes ·

2025/10/29

How children’s toys are teaching us better product design.In this week’s episode of Wish I Thought of That (WITOT), Hiba Ganta and I look at what innovation really means in the space of children’s play — and what it reveals about how we design technology for adults.The conversation starts with a simple idea: healthy play in the age of addictive screens. From Bluey to Yoto and Lovevery, we explore products that respect attention rather than exploit it, and how those same design principles could

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00:42:47

EP 8: "Wish I Thought of That" - Chat as Interface (?)

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2025/10/23

When a UX experiment became the world’s default way to talk to AIIn this first episode of our new weekly segment Wish I Thought of That (WITOT), Hiba Ganta and I explore how chat became the interface for everything, and whether it should stay that way.We talk about why ChatGPT’s text box was never meant to be the final form of AI interaction, and how a design experiment scaled into a global pattern that’s shaping everything from education tools to enterprise workflows.From there, the conversation

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00:41:36

EP 7: Tim Weinheimer – Innovation with Integrity and...

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2025/10/07

A conversation about leading with care in competitive spaces, building AI hackathons that mix speed with friction, and how communicators can balance hype, trust, and authenticity in the age of AI.Changing Shapes – Episode 7I sat down with Tim Weinheimer, Chief Marketing Officer at Hahn, to explore how he’s navigated decades of agency change — from the early digital days to today’s AI-powered campaigns — while holding fast to a simple but powerful value: caring.Tim has led award-winning public health

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01:04:47

EP 6: Alex Platonov - Worlds, Agents, and the Human...

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2025/09/16

A conversation about simulated worlds, agents that find clever exploits, and building call-centre AI that’s faster, kinder, and still human-centred.Changing Shapes – Episode 6In this episode, I sit down with Alex Platonov, a UX engineer and former technical artist who spent eight and a half years at DeepMind, to unpack how simulated worlds train real capabilities, why agents find exploits humans miss, and what “values in product” actually looks like when you’re shipping. Today he’s building an

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00:56:44

Hiba Ganta – Chaos, Friction, and the Soul of Product...

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2025/09/08

A conversation about AI tools, cultural shifts, and why products still need a human touch to feel alive.Changing Shapes – Episode 5“Finding meaning in the mess of product design.”In this episode of Changing Shapes, I sit down with Hiba Ganta, a Berlin-based product builder and writer whose career spans startups, community, no-code, and design, to talk about what it means to work fast, embrace chaos, and still create products with soul.Hiba shares how a startup incubator in Montreal set her on a path

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00:48:48

Episode 4: Evan Yudell – Trust, Creativity, and the...

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2025/07/04

How a jazz drummer turned SaaS founder leads with trust, creativity—and a healthy dose of humility.Changing Shapes – Episode 4“Wonder. What if. Let’s try.”In this episode of Changing Shapes, I speak with Evan Yudell—founder and CEO of Sales Made Simple—about what it takes to build trust in teams, navigate failure, and lead creatively in a world increasingly shaped by AI.Evan left a corporate leadership career to bootstrap his own SaaS company, not because he always wanted to be a founder, but

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00:51:11

Episode 3 - Onika Simon: AI, Ethics & Cultural...

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2025/06/12

🎙️ Episode OverviewIn this episode of Changing Shapes, Tom Horak sits down with Onika Simon—cultural strategist, brand thinker, philosopher by training, and co-founder of creative studio OK Sorted. With a career spanning two decades across New York, London and Berlin, Onika brings a singular voice to how we should think about creativity, ethics, and the role of technology in shaping culture.From walking away from Oxford at 17 to starting her career in New York the day before 9/11, Onika has always

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00:45:54

Episode 2: Felix Rossknecht: AI, Startups & the...

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2025/04/29

🎙️ Episode OverviewIn this episode of Changing Shapes, host Tom Horak talks with Felix Rossknecht—a fractional CMO, growth strategist, and advisor to over 50 companies across e-commerce, consumer tech, and health innovation. Felix grew up in a family business, spent years honing his expertise in global markets, and has now turned his attention to how AI is changing the foundations of product building, marketing, and even healthcare.From the rise of automated content generation to hyper-personalised

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01:11:35

Episode 1: Amy Daroukakis

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2025/03/24

Amy Daroukakis: AI, Culture & The Future of Human Insight🎙️ Episode Overview:In this episode of Changing Shapes, Tom Horak sits down with Amy Daroukakis, a cultural strategist and global trends expert who has spent over 20 years decoding the future for brands like Google, LVMH, and Airbnb. Amy doesn’t just observe trends—she sees the cultural forces shaping them before the rest of us even realise what’s happening.From AI’s impact on human connection to the crisis of authenticity in the digital

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