Why Staying Comfortable Is So Dangerous, with Kai Malte Röver

Kai Malte Röver is a German-born industrial designer with 20+ years building products across the world, from six-axis robots for Toyota to the next-generation medical scanner that just earned his Christchurch company FDA clearance. After a culture shock in Japan forced him to learn the language and rethink everything, he saw how differently people see the world. He explains why getting out of your bubble is the key to staying relevant, and why simplicity is the hardest thing to design.