NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Today on the show, we're joined by Jenni Parker, a passionate designer from Humaly in the UK, specialising in social impact. Jenni...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Today on the show we have Michael Rios from the UN and more specifically the UNDP. Now Mike is Head of DigitalX and based in Cambodia...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Hey Everyone and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. Today in the show, we have two of the board members from the Next Gen SDN...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers We have an absolutely incredible treat for you on the show. Let me tell you a bit of a background. So when I’m travelling, or when I...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers We have the pleasure of hosting Elisabeth Graf, affectionally known as Lilli. We connected a number of months ago on LinkedIn and I...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers CIRCLE - A Community for Ethically Conscious Designers & Changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: Coaching & Mentoring for Innovators & Change-Makers with Gerry Scullion In this episode, I speak with Kasper Bjørkskov. A former architect and activist based in Copenhagen. We speak openly about his role within the existing...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Welcome to another episode of This Is HCD. In this episode, I speak with Erica Heinz, author of Think in 4D, a brand new book aimed at...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Welcome back to the show to our old friend Christof Zürn. I actually had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful human being in person...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Today on the podcast, I'm delighted to welcome Elliott Nelson, Chief HX Officer, which is Human Experience Officer at HXWize in the...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Welcome to another episode of This is HCD. Several months ago, I started speaking with today's guest, Mike Parker, owner and founder...

NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers We speak with Suzanne Hanway, an occupational therapist from Dublin with 28 years of experience. Suzanne discusses her journey into...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers In this episode, stand in host Richard McMurray, service designer from the UK, meets Maren Hotvedt, service designer at Atlassian in the U.S., and Marc Stickdorn, service design expert from Austria. They delve into the world of customer journey management operations and discuss the practical application of journey maps as decision-making tools within...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: Coaching & Mentoring for Innovators & Change-Makers with Gerry Scullion On this episode, we catch up with Damian Kernahan in Sydney, Australia for an insight into his professional journey, spanning from the advertising industry to co-founding a service design firm. We discuss the challenges of navigating complexity and silos in large organisations and reflect on the limitations of personas in designing effective customer...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Our guest on this episode is Jon Wallhouse, founder of Sutsu, a clothing label with a unique approach to fashion. Jon shares his journey, starting with his passion for design since childhood and his dream of owning a surf clothing label, setting the foundation for his future endeavors at the age of 15. We cover the evolution of Sutsu, initially launched as an...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers In this episode, Gerry interviews Munib Karavdic, a design innovation expert. Munib shares insights into his work at Wave Design, an Australian design innovation company, where the focus is on helping businesses design new programs to address pain points or improve user experiences. He emphasizes the importance of elevating the mindset of people involved in...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers The wonderful Morgan Miller shares his journey at Stanford, where he transitioned from an arts program coordinator to leading a service design team. Working in a complex higher ed environment, Morgan highlights the challenges and rewards of introducing service design to a technology-centric institution. Over the years, he navigated the intricacies of the...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers We meet keynote speaker, trainer and coach Jeff Gothelf, and speak about how Jeff helps build collaborative cultures and adopt modern ways of working in organisations. Jeff tells us about his background in design, particularly the intersection of design and agile methodologies. He shares his experience in creating and popularising Lean UX, a process outlined in...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers In this episode, we welcome Professor Sonia Livingstone with Kruakae Pothong from the London School of Economics, also involved in Playful By Design. The discussion focuses on childhood development and incorporating design into children's lives. Kruakae, originally from Thailand and with a background in journalism, highlights her shift to research at the...

Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers Today on the show, we speak with Carol Massa. Carol is a phenomenal service designer, based in the U.S.A. In this episode, we speak about the nuances between strategic design and service design and we really get into detail about the two. We find out how Carol sees what some of the organisations have successfully done to introduce service design into their...

In this eye opening episode, we meet Catalina Bonavia, known to friends as Cata, who is Head of Service Design for Three6.com.au. Originally from Argentina, now living in Melbourne, Catalina has worked on some very interesting projects as an industrial designer, not least a remarkable health-enhancing toilet design for a family in Argentina, which quite literally has changed people's lives. Join us for a fascinating chat, not only about toilets, but about the incredible work Catalina...

I'm delighted to have you with me for another cracking episode this time with Ben Dunn Flores, Co-Founder of Roost. I’d stumbled across this start up late one night on a post that was exploding on LinkedIn that challenged the status-quo about home ownership in the UK. I openly admit in this episode that I am privileged and lucky to have a home, albeit with a mortgage, but we discuss the alternative paths to home ownership, through the CO-OP model that has been popularised in Central Europe. I...

I'm delighted to have you with me for another cracking episode this time with Aoife Dooley, one of Ireland’s most talented illustrators. We connected several years ago at an event where we both were speaking at, and stayed in touch afterwards. Aoife’s created several beautiful children’s books over the last decade, many of which have been shortlisted for best children’s books each time in Ireland. We speak about Aoife’s journey of self-discovery a number of years ago that led Aoife finding...

In this profoundly moving episode, we dive deep into a transformative journey with our distinguished guest, Heldiney Pereira. Heldiney candidly shares his story of navigating life’s tumultuous waters, marked by personal loss, questions about self-worth, and the search for meaning. Emphasizing the pivotal role that the Samaritans played in his journey, Heldiney unveils how moments of despair and confusion became crucibles for forging his resilient spirit and redefining his sense of...

Show some love for our sponsor MIRO: https://www.miro.com/podcast In 'Designing Complexity: Beyond Templates to True Visualization', we dive deep into the transformative world of data design. Nicole, a Swiss graphic designer, joins us to unpack the philosophy behind visualizing intricate concepts. Through enlightening discussions, we explore the journey from narratives to visuals, the pitfalls of generic templates, and the imperative of creating designs that are not only informative but also...