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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'

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.

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World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
January 17, 2023
65
 MIN

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.

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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
January 16, 2023
45
 MIN

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.

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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
January 6, 2023
41
 MIN

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 -

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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
December 23, 2022
58
 MIN

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.

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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
December 20, 2022
39
 MIN

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.

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World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
December 14, 2022
67
 MIN

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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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
December 12, 2022
35
 MIN

Royce Wong 'Scaling Design at Big Commerce & Building the future of asynchronous collaboration'

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I caught up Royce Wong, Co-Founder and CEO of InOrbit and Global Director - Product Design at BigCommerce.

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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
December 8, 2022
34
 MIN

Amy Bucher 'Applying behavioural science within the healthcare realm'

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I caught up with great friend of the podcast, Amy Bucher. Amy is author of Engaged on Rosenfeld Media and we chat about her role of CBO (chief behavioural officer) at Lirio.

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Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
December 6, 2022
31
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Kelly O'Dowd 'They want you to have so many skills for an entry level job'

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We chat about what the experience was like leaving University, her search for jobs, and where they feel there’s opportunity for universities to better support students in that highly emotional stage of life - the transitional period between Uni and Working life.

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June 1, 2021
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Kelly Ann McKercher 'Designing with, Designing for and Designing at'

November 9, 2020
31
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David Dylan Thomas 'Designing with/for Cognitive Bias'

July 25, 2020
36
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Geke Van Dijk ‘Design Research for meaningful change’

July 16, 2020
55
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Bulelani Mfaco ‘Surviving on the margins of society’

July 14, 2020
23
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The Big Remote – Jeroen Spoelstra

July 8, 2020
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Tutti Taygerly ‘Design Leadership’

July 6, 2020
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Erika Hall ‘Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience’

June 22, 2020
37
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Global Jams – Jamming remotely at #GSJam 2020 featuring the Dubai Jam team

June 17, 2020
17
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Karen Peeters ‘Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story’

June 11, 2020
39
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Olive Minor ‘Covid-19 What the anthropologist sees’

June 10, 2020
35
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Shanti Mathew ‘Partnering to build better lives’

June 1, 2020
23
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The Big Remote – Katie Long

May 31, 2020
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Rita Denny ‘Reflections on changes in ethnographic praxis’

May 22, 2020
40
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Chris Gray ‘Dealing with PTSD as a result of working as a social media content moderator’

May 15, 2020
44
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Jeff Sussna ‘Services as a chain of promises’

May 14, 2020
28
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Rebekah Murphy ‘My journey from Scrum Master to UX Designer’

May 13, 2020
68
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Eric Meyer ‘Overcoming complexity’s invisible force’

May 7, 2020
34
 MIN

The Big Remote with ‘Jakob Schneider’

April 30, 2020
48
 MIN

The Big Remote – John Thackara

April 28, 2020
43
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Meg Pagani ‘Recipes for social impact’

April 27, 2020
24
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The Big Remote – Adam Rotmil

April 15, 2020
49
 MIN

Dr. Daniel Beunza ‘Challenging ‘normality”

April 10, 2020
51
 MIN

Jeremy Keith ‘We’ve ruined the Web. Here’s how we fix it.’

April 8, 2020
38
 MIN

Christine Hemphill ‘Making human-centred design more human’

April 6, 2020
33
 MIN

Senongo Akpem ‘Cross-Cultural Design’

April 4, 2020
40
 MIN

The Big Remote ‘Sophie Lovett’

March 31, 2020
22
 MIN

The Big Remote – Matthew Voshell

March 25, 2020
32
 MIN

The Big Remote – Dr John Curran

March 25, 2020
31
 MIN

Amy Bucher ‘Understanding Behaviour Change Design and how it co-exists and compliments other design disciplines’

March 24, 2020
2
 MIN

Introducing The Big Remote

March 24, 2020
16
 MIN

Introducing ‘Global Jams Podcast’

March 18, 2020
53
 MIN

Sam Ladner ‘Working with Cross-Functional Teams’

March 17, 2020
30
 MIN

Talking Shop #006 – Design Politics 2020 goes virtual

March 15, 2020
41
 MIN

Douglas Ferguson ‘Beyond the Prototype’

March 11, 2020
41
 MIN

Stefan Stern ‘Finding ‘The Why’ in Leadership’

March 7, 2020
34
 MIN

Rebecca Cooper & Mandy Rogers ‘Leading Women in Product’

February 25, 2020
37
 MIN

Lou Downe – ‘Good Services’

February 13, 2020
43
 MIN

Raven Kaliana ‘Examining trauma and using puppetry as a transformative tool’

February 10, 2020
15
 MIN

Talking Shop #005 – Our Conference is LIVE!

January 31, 2020
9
 MIN

Jon Colman ‘What Design Managers look for within graduate portfolios at Intercom’

January 23, 2020
41
 MIN

Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle – ‘Writing Is Designing’

January 9, 2020
41
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Scott Smith ‘How to Future’

January 7, 2020
58
 MIN

Genevieve Bell ‘Anthropology, cybernetics, and establishing a new branch of engineering at ANU’

December 20, 2019
54
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Talking Shop #004 – Christmas Special

December 18, 2019
44
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Ewan McIntosh ‘Creating the Space for Learning’

December 16, 2019
34
 MIN

Robert Morais ‘The Value of Business Anthropology’

December 3, 2019
23
 MIN

Talking Shop #003

November 19, 2019
21
 MIN

Jonathon Colman ‘Building world class Design teams’

November 12, 2019
34
 MIN

Theresa Neil ‘Designing Digital Therapeutics’

November 5, 2019
55
 MIN

Joe Macleod ‘Designing Closure Experiences’

October 29, 2019
32
 MIN

Alan Smith ‘Helping businesses design value with Strategyzer’

October 24, 2019
28
 MIN

Laetitia Mimoun ‘Inbetween states’

October 21, 2019
24
 MIN

Zoë Murray ‘Moving careers into Design Research’

October 15, 2019
29
 MIN

Melanie Rayment ‘Using Service Design to deliver improved experiences for vulnerable children’

October 11, 2019
15
 MIN

SDGC19 Special / Laura Lorenzo ‘What to do when your workshop is considered a taboo topic’

October 11, 2019
16
 MIN

SDGC19 Special / Antonio Starnino & Antonio Iadarola ‘Designing innovation spaces’

October 10, 2019
17
 MIN

SDGC19 Special / Josina Vink ‘Making the invisible, visible’

October 10, 2019
15
 MIN

SDGC19 Special / Marc Stickdorn ‘Customer Journey Map Ops’

October 10, 2019
53
 MIN

Lisa Welchman ‘Managing Chaos’

October 4, 2019
31
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Ben Crothers ‘People not pixels’

October 1, 2019
32
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Talking Shop #002

September 24, 2019
32
 MIN

Dana Chisnell ‘Design for all: Using Design to improve civic outcomes for the US Government’

September 12, 2019
25
 MIN

Aiden McGale ‘Advice on landing your first design job’

September 3, 2019
35
 MIN

Kim Goodwin ‘Decision Systems and their role in enabling human centeredness to occur within organisations’

August 22, 2019
39
 MIN

Ariel Waldman ‘Hacking Science for Collaboration’

August 20, 2019
20
 MIN

Talking Shop #001

July 31, 2019
30
 MIN

Eva PenzeyMoog ‘Designing against domestic violence’

July 23, 2019
43
 MIN

Gretchen Anderson – Mastering Collaboration

July 16, 2019
24
 MIN

Derek Horn ‘Undesigned world’

July 3, 2019
27
 MIN

Phil Laufenberg ‘Unpicking Henry Ford’s ‘A faster horse’ quote’

June 19, 2019
52
 MIN

Leah Buley & Aarron Walter – ‘InVision’s Design Maturity Model’

June 4, 2019
32
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Jack Wilkinson & Phil Balagtas ‘A Primer for Designing a Speculative Future’

May 28, 2019
35
 MIN

Majid Iqbal ‘Thinking in Services’

May 21, 2019
30
 MIN

Georgie Smallwood ‘N26 – Building the financial foundations of the future of neo-banking’

May 19, 2019
35
 MIN

Anne Galloway ‘Speculative Design and Glass Slaughterhouses’

May 14, 2019
22
 MIN

Jason Prowd ‘Unpacking product metrics’

May 7, 2019
24
 MIN

Roman Pichler ‘Exploring product strategy success factors through a Design lens’

April 30, 2019
28
 MIN

Doug Powell ‘Building a global Design capability and mindset at IBM’

April 23, 2019
28
 MIN

Aaron Dignan ‘Brave New Work’

April 16, 2019
27
 MIN

Kate Dawson ‘Redesigning how we educate and communicate sexual education’

April 9, 2019
29
 MIN

Aleth Gueguen ‘Looking at Design through a GDPR lens’

April 2, 2019
29
 MIN

André Schaminée ‘Designing with and within public organisations’

March 26, 2019
29
 MIN

Jo-Anne Bichard ‘What the Anthropologist sees: Public toilets as cultural spaces’

March 14, 2019
28
 MIN

Nick Coster ‘Unpacking NPS’

March 12, 2019
48
 MIN

Jeff Gothelf ‘The cannonball effect’

February 26, 2019
36
 MIN

Matiu Bush ‘Life, Death, and Using Design in Health and Aged Care’

February 12, 2019
43
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Liz Fosslien ‘No hard feelings: Emotions in Design’

January 29, 2019
27
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Brendan Dawes ‘Working at the intersection of People, Objects & Technology.’

January 15, 2019
30
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Dr. John Curran ‘Two tribes go to war. Dealing with conflict as part of Design.’

December 18, 2018
31
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Gerry McGovern ‘Top Tasks; A method for understanding peoples product and service requirements’

December 4, 2018
29
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Hazel White & Mike Press ‘Making a difference through design’

November 20, 2018
19
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Andy Polaine ‘Mindful Service Design’

November 6, 2018
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Steve Portigal ‘Symbolic Lab Coats, ASMR and Coke-Fueled Lap Dances: More User Research War Stories’

October 23, 2018
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John Thackara ‘Designing for all of life, not just human life’

October 9, 2018
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Frank Long ‘Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes’

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Marc Stickdorn and Adam Lawrence ‘A Service Design 360’

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Sarah Drummond ‘Kicking-starting a design revolution’

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Patrick Quattlebaum ‘Breaking down tribes to enable the orchestration of experiences’

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July 31, 2018
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Gerry McGovern ‘The repositioning of trust in society’

Featured Hosts—

We are so proud of our amazing hosts at This is HCD. All of us are practicing change-makers.

Interested in being a guest?

Gerry Scullion

Founder of This is HCD

Gerry is the Founder of This is HCD and is based in Ireland.

Melanie Rayment

Director at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

Melanie is Host of Moments of Change, and based in Australia.

Adrienne Tan

CEO of Brainmates

Adrienne is host of ProdPod and based in Australia.

Jay Hasbrouck

Author of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset

Jay is host of EthnoPod and based in the US.

Gerry McGovern

Author of World Wide Waste, and creator of Top Tasks method

Gerry is host of World Wide Waste the podcast, and is based in Ireland.