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Patrick Quattlebaum
Throughout his career, Patrick has consulted with organizations desiring to transform their products and services to better meet the needs of people. Before forming studioPQ, he was Managing Director at Adaptive Path and Head of Service Design at Capital One.
Jon Hicks ‘Understanding the differences between brand design and icon design’
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.
Greg Bernarda ‘Designing businesses for the new world’
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...
Andy Polaine & Simon McIntyre ‘Service Designing Education’ (Part 2)
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...
Chirryl-Lee Ryan ‘Does Design make things better?’
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...
Gerry McGovern
Gerry helps large organizations deliver a better digital customer experience.
Marc Stickdorn
Marc is Co-founder and CEO of "More than Metrics", a company creating software for service design, such as Smaply and ExperienceFellow.
Jay Hasbrouck
Jay Hasbrouck is an anthropologist and strategist whose insights drive innovation and strategic direction for companies, non-profits, and government agencies. He helps clients build on the cultural meanings and contexts of their offerings to refocus their strategies and optimize for...
Chirryl-Lee Ryan
Chirryl-Lee is a transdisciplinary design practitioner, mentor and leader.
Jennifer Philippe – ‘Building HCD at Scale’
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...
Tarra Van Amerongen – ‘Why your idea never gets built. The story of business designers as the unsung hero of service design.’
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...
Barbara Spanton – ‘Disposable design and our obsession with the redesign’
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.
Megan Dell – ‘What does effective human centered design leadership look like?’
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.