Mission
Empower and inspire creatives to reach their full potential.
Creative leaders play a pivotal role in driving innovation and fostering positive change in the world.
Defining Impact
What value and impact can designers bring to the table?
Designers play a pivotal role in driving innovation and fostering positive change in the world.
Human & Society
Increasing well-beeing, positive behavior, ease of use, delight, health and overall satisfaction.
Business & Growth
Supporting in creating outcomes that foster business growth, product KPIs which can improve economic and job market conditions.
Technology & Science
Fostering exploration of new technologies, finding product-market fit, exploring dangers and benefits of technical innovations and supporting science in materializing future use-cases.
Planetary & Sustainability
Bettering the conditions of the planet, working on innovations that make businesses more sustainable and improve conditions for the enviroment.
Human & Society
Design to improve people’s health, behavior and life.
Planetary & Sustainability
Design to reduce negative impact on the planet through humanity.
Business & Growth
Design to accelerate growth and economy.
Technology & Science
Design to foster technology and science progress and adoption.
Collaboration
Design is an accelerator.
When set up the right way design can be the multiplier by teaming others. Design drives X.
Praised by global design leaders.
Chris Livaudis
Executive Director IDSA, Industrial Designer Society of America
“Designdrives provides a strong connection point for designers of all disciplines and experience levels to learn from one another and exchange knowledge. Sebastian displays a selfless propensity to dedicate a tremendous amount of personal resources towards connecting people across industry and creating pathways for members of the design community to become better designers.”
Shiva Jaini
UX Design Manager at Google
“Pouring his heart and soul into producing this podcast, Sebastian is enabling sharing of a wealth of knowledge and learnings from design industry’s top leaders across sectors on how design is driving things forward around the world. In this process, he has created a platform that inspires the next generation of designers and uplevels conversations around design’s value and impact in the industry.”
Pedro Gommes
Founder & Creative Director at Possibility™
“Sebastian's podcast has brought exponential value to the design industry. Tackling complex topics that range a wide variety of expertise, Sebastian's events and content are a key element to push the design community to evolve, both in the educational and professional sectors. I look forward to continue to listen to Sebastian content and learn from his Design Thought Leadership.”
Community first
100% of the profits will be used to empowers creatives and raise awerness.
HOST
HOST
Sebastian Gier
Sebastian Gier designed digital product and brand experiences for brands such as BMW, Bosch, Harvard University and others. He was recognized by over 20 design awards and had the chance to give keynotes in USA, Europe and Asia.
He founded DDX (Design Drives X) to raise awarness about the positive influence of design on innovation and human progress. He is also the Co-Founder of Footprint Intelligence.
You can connect on his LinkedIn here.