277. Maggie Gram

Maggie Gram is a writer, cultural historian, and designer. She’s the author of the new book, The Invention of Design, and her writing as appeared in n+1 and The New York Times. She also leads an experience design team at Google in New York. In this conversation, Jarrett and Maggie talk about how she wrote her book, the evolution of how we talk about design, design’s relationship to power, and why we need new ways to think about what design can do today. Links from this episode are available at — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com

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277. Maggie Gram is an episode from Scratching the Surface by Scratching the Surface.

This episode is 00:57:33 long.

This episode was published on Nov 12, 2025.

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