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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
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Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics.
Karel Vredenburg 'The evolution of Design at IBM plus the Future of Design education'
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I caught up with Karel Vredenburg, Karel is currently IBM Global Vice President, Client Insights and Research and responsible for leading the company’s global team of researchers and the insights they provide to product, services, and executive teams.
Sarah Kearns 'Life as a nurse in Ireland - A peek behind the curtain'
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In this episode you will hear the real life stories from Sarah of what life is and was life during the global pandemic, how hard these incredible people work. I wanted to shine a light on this area of society, where the work we do as system and service designers has an direct relationship often with life and death -
Christmas Special 2022 with special guest
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Any ideas who the special guest is?I will give you a clue. They are truly awesome - and one of my heroes in Design.
Jo Szczepanska 'Is it time to refresh, repair or retire your personas?'
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Jo sent me an article that they wrote a while ago about persona’s, and it was so good that I thought we should do an episode to dig into it a little deeper.
John Booth 'Data centers: Data theatre and the tsunami of frivolous data'
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John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award.
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This is HCD was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2017 by Gerry Scullion but is now based out of Dublin, Ireland.
Our network produces content for people interested not only in design and innovation, but in the power of working together to make the world a better place. The world needs better designed physical and digital products, better-designed services, and better systems connecting all of these - fast.
Our intent is to help people design these new offerings and to help ensure that they meet the needs of the people using them.
Gerry Scullion
Based in Dublin, Ireland. Service Designer, Educator, Design Researcher and Interaction Designer. Gerry is the Former CEO of This is Doing. He runs courses on service design, UX design, Design Research. He is also a Pluralsight Author too.