Bringing Design Closer With Gerry Scullion

Today on the show we have Laura Yarrow, Head of Design and Her Majesty’s Land Registry in the UK. In this episode we chat about design agitation and enabling change within organisations. Laura recently shared a fantastic thread on twitter about many of the common designer statements that we probably all have heard a thousand times “no one is listening to me”. We chat about the challenges that many designers have - and how Laura approaches many of these problems in her role within Government. It’s a good one - let’s just straight in... Read the twitter thread that inspired this episode; https://twitter.com/laura_yarrow/status/1487369386981736450 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is brought to you by our incredible friends at Shopify. Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. My name is Gerry Scullion, I’m the Founder of the Human Centered Design Network and CEO of This is Doing - home to many of the worlds best design and change maker courses online. Today on the show we have Emma Blomkamp - a facilitator researcher and strategic designer based in Melbourne and leader within the co-design space. In this episode we speak about Emma’s past and how they go into Co-Design and Design generally. We speak about the evolution of Design and where Co-Design sits now and what that looks like potentially in the future. Let’s jump in. https://www.emmablomkamp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. My name is Gerry Scullion, I’m the Founder of the Human Centered Design Network and CEO of This is Doing - home to many of the worlds best design and change maker courses online. Today on the show we have Sasja Nieukerk-Chomos - President of Dynamic Achievement based in Canada. I recently stumbled on Sasja profile on LinkedIn after reading a remarkable post about her father, Nick. In this episode we hear more about Nick’s story and the impact it had on Sasja’s life. We speak about Leadership and learn more about toxicity within organisations, how we manage this from an executive perspective but also from someone who might find themselves working alongside people who play roles in compounding the behaviours associated to toxicity. It’s a brilliant conversation - and kn

Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. My name is Gerry Scullion, I’m the Founder of the Human Centered Design Network and CEO of This is Doing - home to many of the worlds best design and change maker courses online. Today on the show we have Brigette Metzler, Research Ops Lead at Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment. Brigette is Co-Chair of the ResearchOps community and is based in one of my favourite places on earth, Tasmania.  We cover off some of the 8-pillars of Research Operations in this episode, and talk openly about the challenges that Brigette faced when setting up the architecture for Research to blossom inside the Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment. We speak about measureme

Note: Shopify is a sponsor of This is HCD. This conversation was unscripted and relatively unedited but we wanted to flag this to our listeners. Next month, marks This is HCD’s 5th anniversary. If you’ve found this network useful to you over the last 5-years, and want to help me and the team at This is HCD you can do two things. If you haven’t already done it, sign up to our newsletter on This is HCD, where you get fortnightly content about all that is going on in the world of This is HCD. Also if you LOVE what we do, leave a rating for the podcast - this helps us out enormously and helps others find the podcast too. Where? Well, anywhere but leaving it on Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts are probably two of the most important channels for us. In this episode i speak with Lola Oyelayo-Pearson from Shopify. Lola of a Director of UX, Money and we chat about what this actually means.  We speak about the mission at Shopify to remain independent, and supporting entrepreneurship globally by making it easier to

Hello and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. It’s the start of 2022 and want to ask a favour before we jump in. If you haven’t already done it, sign up to our newsletter on This is HCD, where you get fortnightly content about all that is going on in the world of This is HCD. Also if you LOVE what we do, leave a rating for the podcast - this helps us out enormously and helps others find the podcast too. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, transformational design and innovation training for teams and organisations for people within the Design and change-making space.  In this episode I speak with one of my

Doing Design Festival V3 'Better Together' - February 11 2022. Tickets: https://www.thisisdoing.com/the-doing-design-festival Today on the show we have Renee Abrecht Mallinger - a Lead Design Researcher at one of my favourite design studios Global Good Studio of Chicago. We chat about the intersectionality of Renees’ previous career as a middle school and high school teacher and now as Design Researcher, primarily focussed on governmental and societal work. What pieces has Renee felt set them up for success whilst working in complexity on a day to day basis. What came out in the conversation was the formal education that Renee received as a teacher, has better prepared her for handling potentially trauma inducing situations whilst researching - something many (if any) design educators cover - psychological safety.  It’s a good one - let’s jump into it! https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneelynn/ https://greatergoodstudio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doing Design Festival V3 'Better Together' - February 11 2022. Tickets: https://www.thisisdoing.com/the-doing-design-festival Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space.  You are in for a treat today folks - I caught up with the one and only, Joe Macleod - an all round great thinker and leader in the space of designing end experiences. Based in Stockholm now, Joe’s just released his second book titled ‘Endineering’ which focusses on the HOW to design these incredibly important experiences for both businesses and the planet. Joe’s first book titled ‘Ends’ was released a number of years ago and really focussed on the understanding of the why these systems have not been put in place. In this conversation we flick between both mindsets, but in the spirit o

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. In this episode I speak with Moodi Mahmoudi of Next, a business centred around helping organisations create frameworks for design and innovation within their businesses - we speak about the automation of the role of Designer and what this looks like - and I challenge Moodi about the risks associated with this. Is this something we strive for?  Moodi explains this isn’t the intention, but it’s removing the mundane elements, and creating experiences that enable designers and innovators to focus more on the craft of DOING their work. We speak about the hyper addiction of orgs striving for more growth - and if this is the driver behind the business - We also cover off the frameworks inside their sys

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. In this episode I speak with the brilliant, George Aye - Co-Founder of Great Good Studio in Chicago - a Design Firm dedicated to the social sector. George has had an expansive career to date, working in many complex social issues globally - He’s adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.  We speak about Human-Centered-ness in this podcast. Just what do we mean when we say HCD and we discuss the problems it faces when being applied - what is causing the term to lose its power and the role education and large consultancies play.  We talk about what often gets missed when HCD work is undertaken, and also cover off the criteria for taking on projects at Greater Good Studio - a

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. In this episode we welcome Randal Plunkett who is also Lord Dunsany of Dunsany land in Meath, an area 50 miles north west of Dublin City in Ireland. Randal’s family are deeply entrenched in my upbringing - as a great great great great great great uncle of Randals was Oliver Plunkett, who was brutally murdered by Oliver Cromwell in 1681 and who’s head is still on display in the town where I grew up, Drogheda. Randal is one of the last blood lines of Oliver Plunkett - so it’s been fantastic to connect and hear stories about his up bringing. I recently spotted an interview with Randal in The Guardian newspaper in the UK where he was interviewed about one of the largest Rewilding projects that I had

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. In this episode we welcome Eva Penzeymoog back onto the show. For long time listeners you might remember Eva’s episode in July 2019 about Designing Against Domestic Violence. Since then, Eva’s been buy working through the pandemic, and complete her first book ‘Design for Safety’ on A Book Apart.  This episode may be trigger for some people, so if you are a survivor of domestic violence, or have suffered trauma - I wanted to let you know that we cover off topics such as gaslighting, domestic violence and abuse throughout this episode. Let’s jump into the episode... https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-safety https://evapenzeymoog.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/evapenzeymoog/ Learn m

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, transformational design and innovation training for teams and organisations for people within the Design and change-making space.  Today on the show we have the wonderful Iria Lopez, a UK based service designer. I recently stumbled upon Iria’s work on LinkedIn where she was running a workshop. What struck me was the theme - Designing for loneliness. We speak about the importance of gaining greater context of why people congregate and attend extra-curricular events such as Design meet-ups etc. and that is of human-connection. The import

Welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling  complex societal issues. Our goal is to have conversations that inspire and to help move the dial forward for organisations to become more human-centred in their approach to solving complex business and societal problems. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space.  Today on the show we have the wonderful Tomer Sharon, author and creator of some fantastic books and frameworks that I was excited to connect with recently. Tomer is Co Founder and Chief Experience Officer for Any-Where an exciting start-up that is focussed on the future of remote working.  In this episode we chat more around Measuring Happiness - what this is really in the context of experiences and if it’s an important metric to focus on. We drill into how To

In this episode I speak with Georgie Smallwood, CPO at Tier Mobility in Germany (moped, scooters). We chat about the mission and purpose behind Tier and how it works with local councils to offer e-mobility to citizens across Europe. We chat about the service model that sits behind the business, and go deep into details of battery disposal, sustainability, energy usage etc. There’s a big announcement towards the end of the episode, something Georgie and myself are really excited to announce together! So be sure to stick around till the end of the episode Lets jump in.. tinyurl.com/auxiliaglobal https://www.tier.app https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginasmallwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn how to 'Design Services' with a world-class service design team! 12 week - Part time - Project based training. Starts September 2021. https://www.thisisdoing.com/designing-services-3-month-part-time-service-design-course Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer!My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space.  Today on the show we have Belina Raffy, an incredible facilitator and founder of Sustainable Stand Up a brilliant organisation that works with organisations to use humour to approach complex topics. Belina has a background in improvisation and stand up, so it’s probably no coincidence that this conversation has a lot of laughter in it, and is free-flowing and natural in it’s approach.  Let’s get into it! Train with Belina / https://www.sustainablestandup.com/#courses Belina on Linke

Hey folks, welcome to Bringing Design Closer, the podcast focussed on discussing Designs role in tackling sometimes complex societal issues. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space. We also have our new Doing Design Festival series now, with the next event on June 18 with the theme ‘Doing Design Online’ with some of the TiD talking about loads of related its. More info see doingdesignfestival.com Before we jump into this episode, I wanted to alert listeners that this episode may contain content that is triggering to some people. In it we discuss sexual abuse and working with Design alongside issues of trauma. Today on the show we have Rachael Dietkus a phenomenal person and advocate for trauma led approaches in design. First and foremost, Rachael is a social worker, based 2-hours south of Chicago in Urbana Champai

Buy a ticket for the Doing Design Festival between June 1 - 3 and get a free €100 Gift Voucher for This is Doing.com Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes , providing training for people within the Design and change-making space. We also have our new Doing Design Festival series now, with the next event on June 18 with the theme ‘Doing Design Online’ with some of the TiD talking about loads of related its. More info see doingdesignfestival.com In this episode I speak with the brilliant, the lovely, Kelly Ann McKercher - author of Beyond Sticky Notes and a wonderful designer to boot. We speak about DESIGN AT people - and go deeper into determining what this means for organisations. We speak about ways for teams and designers to help self-identify between DESIGNING AT and DESIGNING FOR people. We look at what this means wh

Workshops & Course tickets now on sale for 'Doing Design Festival V2' - June 18 2021  Today on the show we have Christof Zürn founder of Creative Companion and MusicThinking.com. We chat the interrelationship between Design and Music and what Design can learn from thinking like a musician. As an 'ex' musician and songwriter myself, I see the world of Design very much within the same family as music. We drill a little deeper into Christofs Music Thinking framework and learn more about the value it can bring to teams and organisations. Lets get into it. Sign up for Chrstof's podcast: https://musicthinking.com/podcast/ https://musicthinking.com/ https://www.creative-companion.com https://nl.linkedin.com/in/creativecompanion More from This is HCD https://linktr.ee/thisishcd Join our Slack community / https://www.thisishcd.com/community/join/ Join our newsletter / https://www.thisishcd.com/community/join-the-hcd-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just announced 'Doing Design Festival V2' - June 18 2021 Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for people within the Design and change-making space. We also have our new Doing Design Festival series now, with the next event on June 18 with the theme ‘Doing Design Online’ with some of the TiD talking about loads of related its. More info see doing designfestival.com Today on the show we have Shane Waring from Dublin City Council and founder of Dublin City BETA - a wonderful initiative that is focused on making Dublin City more liveable through service experimentation. We speak with Shane about the process behind the scenes and what makes this initiative different to typical initiatives in normal Councils and Governments. We learn more about the background to some of Shanes work and go deeper into what