The Design Thinking 101 Podcast
Stories about what’s possible when you think and solve like a designer
Learning Service Design on the Job + Leading a Design Team + Service Design Standards with Tracey Williams — DT101 E47
Tracey Williams, a Service Design Director for Absa Bank in South Africa, discusses learning service design on the job, growing design skills on her team, and building organizational service design standards with Dawan Stanford, your podcast host. Show Summary...
Prototyping Insights + The Prototyping Canvas with Carlye Lauff — DT101 E46
Carlye Lauff is an independent contractor specializing in innovation strategy and design research. We’ll talk about her path into design and how she obtained her Ph.D. in Design Theory and Methodology, and then hear about her global work with organization innovation...
A Designer’s Journey into Designing for Health and Healthcare with Lorna Ross — DT101 E45
Lorna Ross, the Chief Innovation Officer at VHI Health and Well-Being, discusses her career and work at DARPA, Motorola, MIT Media Lab, the Rhode Island School of Design, Mayo Clinic, and Accenture. You’ll learn about how her stellar design career unfolded, ways to...
Designing Health Systems + Creating Effective Design Workshops with Sean Molloy — DT101 E44
Sean works in the healthcare industry as a Director of Patient Quality Experience at North York General Hospital in Toronto, Canada. We talk about Sean’s evolution into design thinking, how he dug deep and studied design, and how he felt that moving into this way of...
Adding System Awareness to System Design to Your Innovation Stack with Julie Guinn — DT101 E43
Julie Guinn combines design, research, strategy, and systems thinking to help teams build innovation capabilities, solve complex business challenges and deliver delightful, intuitive product experiences. We discuss systems awareness, leading design work inside complex...
Learning Design + Designing for How People Learn with Julie Dirksen — DT101 E42
Julie Dirksen is a learning strategist with more than 15 years of experience creating highly interactive e-learning experiences for clients, from Fortune 500 companies and technology startups to grant-funded research initiatives. Our conversation today is about...
Innovation in Nursing Education + Design Thinking for Health with Marion Leary — DT101 E41
Marion Leary is the Director of Innovation at the Pennsylvania School of Nursing. We discuss innovation and nursing education, University of Pennsylvania’s free online Design Thinking for Health platform, nurses as innovation leaders, and why storytelling matters....
Employee Experience by Design: How to Create an Effective EX for Competitive Advantage with Belinda Gannaway — DT101 E75
Belinda Gannaway is the co-author of Employee Experience by Design and the Director at Fathom XP,...
Industrial Design + Design Agency Leadership + Creative Confidence with James Howard — DT101 E74
James Howard is a teacher, design historian, industrial designer, and inventor of over 300...
Designing Facilitation: A System for Creating and Leading Exceptional Events // ALD 006 — DT101 E73
Thank you for listening to this Ask Like a Designer episode of the Design Thinking 101 Podcast....
Trauma-Informed Design + Participatory Design Perils + Research with Vulnerable Populations with Sarah Fathallah — DT101 E72
Sarah Fathallah is an independent social designer and researcher. Today, we talk about...
Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey with Karen Hold — DT101 E71
This is the first DT101 Books episode. Karen Hold joins us on the show to talk about Experiencing...
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