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Sarah Clearwater ‘The Intersection of Design and Leadership: Navigating the Journey’
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Today on the show I speak with Sarah Clearwater about a Design Leadership.
Florian Bailey 'Service Design Secrets: Elevating Michelin Dining'
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Earlier this year, I attended a conference in Nuremberg called Teaming with AI, run by my good friends, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence from WorlPlayExperience and also today’s guest, Florian Bailey.
Neil Theise ‘Navigating Complexity'
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I have become captivated about many of the leading authors on complexity, and was thrilled when Neil agreed to record with me, his first from within the Design world. I’ve been researching complexity for several months, and unpacking what we can take away from decades of research by leaders in the field. How can we apply this level of thinking into our day to day work as change-makers.
Katie O'Donoghue 'Artful Minds: Nurturing Children's Emotional Growth Through Art Therapy'
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Welcome to the Makers and Doers podcast, a podcast aimed at parents and guardians looking to learn more about giving children opportunities to explore Design - through Making and Doing.
Justyna Turek ‘A fresh perspective:The Role of Human-Centered Design in Sustainability’
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In this conversation I caught up Justyna Turek, founder of many businesses and based in Sweden. Justyna works most often with Next Agents and Change Pilots in Poland.
Zoë Rose ‘Design Through Time: Unraveling the Evolution of Methodologies and Frameworks’
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In this conversation I caught up Zoe Rose, of Great Question in Australia.
Manuel Lima ‘The New Designer: Pioneering Perspectives’
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A number of months ago, Manuel sent me an advance of his latest book, The New Designer and it instantly felt different.
Frank Müeller ‘Revolutionising Work Spaces with Playmobil Pro: the Ultimate Tool for Creativity and Collaboration’
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In this conversation I caught up Frank Mueller, of Playmobil Pro.
Pietro Jarre ‘No such thing as sustainable mining’
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Pietro Jarre has a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He’s a specialist in geotechnical and environmental issues on waste rock deposits, mining infrastructures, landfills and brownfields.
Markus Edgar Hormess & Adam Lawrence 'The Designing Machine: How AI is Changing the Creative Process'
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I attended Teaming with AI in Nuremberg recently with two of the most awesome designers that I know, Adam Lawrence and Markus Edgar Hormess of WorkPlayExperience.
Steffi Kieffer 'Designing with AI: Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Design'
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I was in a workshop led by our guest today, Steffi Keiffir. She is an independent practiioner and facilitates Design Thinking workshops, Design Sprints etc and has been using AI a lot more than most within their work, and we go deeper into this. Just how they are using, what AI pieces they are using, so if you listen to the entire episode, you’ll get an overview of just how much change is upon us. We used a basic 5-step design process and reviewed how, where and when AI can be applied and what the likely outcomes are.
Emily Hamilton ‘Designing Second Chances: Breaking the Cycle’
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‘Designing Second Chances: Breaking the Cycle’
Scott Jenson ‘Part 2 of 2: Open Source Design Movement: How Designers can help change the game’
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Part 2 of 2: Open Source Design Movement: How Designers can help change the game
Darjan Hil ‘The Art of Visualising Complexity’
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I connected with Darjan, and we had an amazing conversation. We explored the process that both he and his partner, Nicole follow when visualising complexity.
Steven Russell 'The Rise of the Autonomous Bus: A Look into the Future of Transit'
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In this episode I speak with Steven Russell, Innovation Manager at Stagecoach Bus one of the largest transport services in the UK.
Dee Seaver 'The Broken Promise of Design Academia: A Call to Action'
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In this episode I chat with Dee Seaver from Philips about the role of the Service Design function within organisations and the interconnectedness towards how academia prepares designers towards either agency or in-house practice. It may seem like a small nuance, but it’s a really interesting conversation to have and reflect.
Oliver Weidlich 'Creating Immersive Experiences with Spatial Computing'
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In this episode I caught up with Oliver Weidlich, of Contxtu.al Sydney, formerly known as Mobile Experience.
Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys nature and communities'
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Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently theNational Coordinator oftheGhana Youth Environmental Movement-a leadingyouth-ledenvironment and climate advocacy and campaign group in Ghana.Istarted by asking Perk to tell me more about how the youth movement works
Charlotte Fountaine ‘Service Designing a stigma-free and relevant mental health support to empower the LGBTQIA+ community to lead happier, healthier lives’
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In this episode I caught up with Charlotte Fontaine, an incredible service designer in the UK
Roya Azadi ‘Improving Access to Justice at the Supreme Court’
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In this episode I caught up with Roya Azadi, strategic director at Paper Giant, a design consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia
Bronwyn Van Der Merwe ‘Exploring and Scaling Design Culture internationally at Fjord and now Culture Amp’
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In this episode I caught up with Bronwyn Van Der Merwe, VP of Design at Culture Amp.
Kaustubh Thapa 'E - waste : Ultimate Producer Responsibility'
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Kaustubh is finishing his PhD at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Melis Senova ‘Exploring what we mean by Design Character’
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In this episode I speak with Melis Senova author of This Human and soon to be published book, Design Character.
Hinrich von Haaren ‘Diving deep into Content Transformation’
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In this episode I speak Hinrich von Haaren, Co-Founder of Content Design Academy at Content Design London and now author of Content Transformation
Ben Reason ‘The Velocities of Change with the Founder of Livework’
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In this episode I speak with Ben Reason, Founding Partner of Livework in the UK.
Andrew Francomb 'Diving deeper into the transitionary period between university and work and it’s direct impact on mental health'
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In this episode I chat with Andrew Francomb from the UK about their experience graduating from Lancaster University, and their experience of landing their first job.
John Foley 'Creating a business case to be hired'
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In this episode I chat with John Foley, a service designer based in London working with Livework Studio.
Emma Carpenter 'Exploring the craft of Service Design within South Africa'
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I caught up with Emma Carpenter, Head of Design Experience and previously Group Director Fjord Johannesburg, Associate Director at Accenture Song
Rohan Walsh 'Making and breaking into UX & Service Design'
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The Getting Started in Design podcasts are created for people looking to break into Design.
Making & Doing at home with Alexa Mitchell
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In this episode I chat with one of the most naturally gifted people I know, Alexa Mitchell.
Amy Hupe ‘Design System Evolution’
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I caught up with Amy Hupe, a content designer and design system consultant based in the UK.
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 -
What role does education have in generating the next generation of problem solvers and lateral thinkers?
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What interested me most though these days, is what I learned in School, have nothing to do with what I studied in Uni, and what I studied in Uni, had nothing to do with what I do for a living. In fact, I think at this stage, I have had 3 or 4 careers and I have constantly iterated my way through life.
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.
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.
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.
