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The Power of Ten Show
May 19, 2019
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My guest today is Dr. Anne Galloway. She’s an associate professor at Victor University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
May 14, 2019
22
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Hello, and welcome to Prod Pod. We’re a part of This is HCD. We’re bringing all human-centred practitioners real and honest conversations about product management.

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Hello, my name is Gerry Scullion and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, which is part of the This is HCD Network. I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland.

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Hello, my name is Gerry Scullion and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, which is part of This is HCD. I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland.

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The Power of Ten Show
April 23, 2019
28
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Hello, and welcome to Power of Ten on This is HCD. My name is Andy Polaine, a designer, educator, writer, and currently group director of client evolution at Fjord.

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Hello, and welcome to Brining Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner based in Dublin City, Ireland. Today, I caught up with Kate Dawson, a doctoral researcher from the NUI school of psychology in Galway Ireland.

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Hello, and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner based in Dublin City, Ireland. I caught up with Aleth Gueguen, a GDPR legal specialist based on Nantes, France. We chat about all things GDPR related and run through a typical research scenario of gathering data as we research, storying that data and also deleting that data and all the implications from a GDPR perspective as we research.

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A very warm welcome to the very first episode of Bringing Design Closer. It’s a podcast dedicated in exploring the tactical and strategic things that work in enabling a design centricity to occur in organisations, businesses, and governments.

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The Culture Cast
March 26, 2019
29
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Hello, and welcome to Ethno Pod on This is HCD. My name is John Curran and I’m your guest host. I’m a business anthropologist, executive coach, and CEO of JC and Associates, which is a consultancy that explores how culture shapes organisations and consumer behaviour.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
March 14, 2019
28
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We’re going to be talking about the dreaded NPS. More importantly, what’s good about it, if any, as Gerry says, and what’s not good about it?

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The Power of Ten Show
March 12, 2019
48
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Hello, and welcome to Power of Ten on This is HCD. My name is Andy Polaine. I’m a designer, educator, and writer, and currently group director of Client Evolution at Fjord. The Power of Ten Podcast is about design operating at many levels, from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation, as well as changes in society and the world. It pays homage to the famous Charles Eames, the powers of ten, which showed how each power of ten zoom level contains its own complexity, ecosystem, and details. They’re all interrelated.

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February 26, 2019
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and get ready for an exciting episode because today I’m speaking to Australian designer and nurse practitioner, Maitu Bush.

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February 12, 2019
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and in this episode, I’m speaking to Liz Fosslien, designer, illustrator, and co-author of the brilliant book: No Hard Feelings, The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work.

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January 29, 2019
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We’re at Pixel Pioneers in Belfast today. A conference that has been going for two years. It was a fantastic day.

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January 15, 2019
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Hello and welcome to the first episode of 2019. I hope you had a good break and a good holiday season.

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December 18, 2018
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There’s some of you might know the Top Tasks methodology already and even if you do, I encourage you to listen as I break down the methods to better understand the mechanics and get Gerry’s insights into where it works well and also its origins and there’s so much wisdom in this episode, I just know you’ll enjoy it.

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December 4, 2018
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Hazel White and Mike Press from OpenChange in Scotland join me on the show this week, and we dig a little deeper into what myself and Sarah Drummond covered about the changes in the Scottish design landscape and what trigged this. We speak more about a walkabout, service safari or observational masterclass that the guys gave at service design days in Barcelona, and what’s so good about these types of workshop activities.

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The Power of Ten Show
November 20, 2018
19
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In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy’s work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design – from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years.

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November 6, 2018
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Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan, and in this episode, I’m speaking to researcher Steve Portigal. Steve is the Principal of Portigal Consulting and the author of two books: Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, and Doorbells Danger and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories.

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October 23, 2018
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Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a human centered design practitioner based in Dublin, Ireland, and this week I caught up with one of my design heroes, John Thackara whilst I was hosting the incredible Service Design Days conference in Barcelona recently.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I’m a service design principle now based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland’s UX forefathers.

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September 25, 2018
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Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and Aussie designer, living in working in New York City. In this episode, I’m catching up with Marc Stickdorn and Adam Lawrence, co-authors of the cult service design books. This is Service Design Thinking and more recently This is Service Design Doing.

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I recently caught up with our next guest, Sarah Drummond. Sarah is a designer and CEO and serial idea generator. She’s co-founded, SNOOK, myPolice, MyDearestScotland and much more. She was awarded a Google Fellowship for her work in technology and democratic innovation and named as one of Good Magazines 100-extraordinary individuals tackling global issues in a creative way daily.

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In this episode we caught up with the brilliant Patrick Quattlebaum, co-author (alongside Chris Risdon) of the fantastic new Rosenfeld media book ‘Orchestrating Experiences’. Patrick is founder of StudioPQ and former managing director of the service design consultancy Adaptive Path before its acquisition, after of which he was the Head of Service Design and Senior Director of Design at Capital One.

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August 14, 2018
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Recently I caught up with Sarah Richards in London. Sarah’s a founder of Content Design in London, an organisation focused on delivering content design training courses as well as working with organisations to help build the content design function internally.

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July 31, 2018
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Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a human centred design practitioner based in Dublin, Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Gerry McGovern, one of the most well known and loved customer experience advocates in the industry today.

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July 17, 2018
37
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Welcome to another episode of ‘This is HCD’ coming direct to you from the city where dreams are made, New York City. I’m your host, Chirryl-Lee Ryan and in this episode I’m speaking to Joey Zeledon, an award winning designer with a background in product design, experience design and design strategy.

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July 3, 2018
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Hi and welcome to another episode of ‘This is HCD’ coming to you from Brooklyn, New York.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
June 19, 2018
23
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Ivy Hornibrook will talk us through her career transition from UX into product management.

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June 5, 2018
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Up to 2 per cent of people or 460,000 adults in Australia experience, the symptoms of bipolar disorder and one of those symptoms is mania which can be experienced as euphoric by some but also highly distressing for others, leading at times to devastating consequences.

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In this episode, I caught up with Victor Rodrigues, the chief software architect and user experience advocate for Cochlear, one of Australia’s most loved and most successful innovation success stories. For anyone who is unaware, Cochlear produce implantable solutions for the profoundly deaf. And for anyone with their technological finger on the pulse may have seen late last year on all the tech websites a partnership between Apple and Cochlear.

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In this episode, we go through the hypothetical scenario of embedding service design into an organisation and what Marc looks for in this process. We discussed the challenges of the early stage engagement of what to look for regarding the design maturity of an organisation, where service design should sit in an organisational structure and the role of service design thinking, impact measurement and service design and a whole lot more.

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EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
April 24, 2018
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In this episode, we chat with the author of Ethnographic Thinking, Jay Hasbrouck. We go through what ethnographic thinking is and how it should be applied to inform richer contextual insights for design teams and how designers have abused or misunderstood ethnography and even touch on some retail rituals in the US and talk about how going off-piste in Jay’s research plan in Japan led him to a shoe hotel and all the rich insights about the culture that followed.

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April 10, 2018
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Having worked with Jon many times over the years I can honestly say he’s one of the best in the world at what he does so was incredibly happy to have him on the show.

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Greg Bernada is the co-author of Value Proposition Design by Strategyzer. We were delighted to have him on the show to discuss the difference in twentieth and twenty-first-century organisational mindsets, what role education has to play in better enabling organisations of the future, and lots more.

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March 13, 2018
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In the first part, we spoke about the problems faced in education and spoke about some of the origins of these problems. This episode builds on that but goes deeper into the work that UNSW is undertaking about redesigning the university with a focus on enabling a culture that will better place their students for the future.

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February 27, 2018
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Chirryl-Lee Ryan and I were recently on a design-panel together, Designing for Social Impact for Academy XI in Sydney, and had a whale of a time. We caught up in Melbourne a few days later to extend that conversation, and go deeper into areas that we touched on at the Designing for Social Impact design panel.

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February 13, 2018
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Over the course of the last year or so, I’ve heard whispers in the UX community of a new role emerge called a UX Writer and instantly was drawn to it as I have identified the issues many times in my career of the solutions that a role like this can address.

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The Power of Ten Show
January 30, 2018
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In this episode, we caught up with Andy Polaine who is Regional APAC Design Director for Fjord and also professor Simon McIntyre from UNSW to discuss the future of education and ask the mammoth question of, “Is education broken?”.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
January 16, 2018
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In today’s episode, Adrienne and I catch up with Elizabeth Pek, the director of experience design at BT Financial, to discuss the topic “What makes a great HCD designer?” We cover the challenges of measuring great personality traits to look out for in an interesting, immersive interview process for hiring in design roles.

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January 2, 2018
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In this episode, we caught up with Eduardo Kranz who is a design director at Fjord Canberra. We discussed where the service design and UX professions intersect in respects to the skills and activities that are done on a day to day basis. We didn’t get into the definition of what service design is or isn’t or any of the other semi contentious issues around the two practices.

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December 19, 2017
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In this episode, we take the time to peel back the layers and look uncover the true meaning and objectives of forms. We discuss, where forms are going and what we can do as practitioners to ensure that the organisations that we work for are delivering the best experiences for their customers.

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December 1, 2017
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We discuss the methods that the wider HCD team in Westpac use to help keep stakeholders engaged. Cyril explains the signs to look out for with engaged and disengaged stakeholders and how to work with them to build trust.

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November 19, 2017
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The topic today is all about diversity in the workplace. We’re going to be talking about all the different challenges and try and hack some of those and figure out why it still exists and where these challenges actually come from, and what the outcome is if we can actually manage to deal with them and make some positive change.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
November 6, 2017
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In this episode, we caught up with Kirsten Mann, the VP of Product and Experience at Aconex. We discuss how organizations are not designed to value to design, a pretty large topic.

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In this episode, we ask the big questions about human-centred design and large organizations. Why design teams alone, are not enough to become customer lead, and why we need to look at a sustainable way to scale human-centred design in organizations.

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October 10, 2017
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In this episode, we get down into the nooks and crannies about what a business designer does, how it complements service design and activities and much, much more. This is a really insightful conversation. I hope you enjoyed as much as we did being part of it.

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September 2, 2017
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We caught up with the wonderful Barbara Spanton from Ottawa in Canada. Barbara is a UX Lead in Shopify and in this episode, we discuss the industry’s obsession with the redesign.

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August 17, 2017
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We get Megan’s perspective on what makes a good and bad leader and drill deeper into the organizational and cultural considerations that let the Human centered design methodology bloom.

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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
July 25, 2017
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In this episode, we speak with Adrienne Tan, Co-Founder of leading Australian product management consultancy Brainmates. We discuss how the roles of service design and product management work together within organisations.

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About us

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.

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CEO & FOUNDER

Gerry Scullion

Educator, Keynote Speaker, Designer & Podcaster

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.