The Design Thinking 101 Podcast
Stories about what’s possible when you think and solve like a designer
Behavioral Design X Service Design with Anne van Lieren — DT101 E40
Anne van Lieren is a service designer and behavior design enthusiast. We talk about her path to joining Livework in the Netherlands as a service designer, where service design and behavioral design are converging, examples from her work, and what happens when you add...
The Evolution of Teaching and Learning Design with Bruce Hanington — DT101 E39
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 Podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. In today's episode I am joined by Bruce Hanington. He remembers being introduced to design as a small child with his father being a Commercial Designer. Initially headed for a career in...
Nursing + Service Design + Healthcare Innovation with Brittany Merkle — DT101 E38
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. Today's Guest is Brittany Merkle. Her design path started at the University of Virginia in the College of Arts and Sciences. During her first semester, her grandfather was diagnosed with...
Design for America: Founding + Present + Future, Part 2 — DT101 E37
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. Today's episode is part two of a two-part series on Design for America. Design for America is a nationwide network that supports design innovation for social impact. DFA was founded at...
Design for America: Students + Design Thinking + Community Impact, Part 1 — DT101 E36
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. Today's episode is part one of a two-part series on Design for America. Design for America is a nationwide network that supports innovation for social impact. DFA was founded at Northwestern...
Integrating Engineering, Design and Business with Tony Hu — DT101 E35
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I'll be interviewing Tony Hu, who is the academic director at MIT’s Creative Design and Management Master’s program. We’ll be talking about how Tony discovered design, human-centered...
Teaching and Learning Service Design for Designers and Non-designers with Maurício Manhães — DT101 E34
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I'm Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I'll be interviewing Maurício Manhães and talking about his design position at Savannah College of Art and Design, his work at the Service Design Network and as the group leader at the...
Identity Design + People vs. Process + Intersectional Design Leadership with John B. Johnson — DT101 E70
John B. Johnson is an identity architect and principal of a small studio. He works with...
The Swiss-Army Lives of How-Might-We Questions // ALD 005 — E69
Thank you for listening to this Ask Like a Designer episode of the Design Thinking 101 Podcast....
Democracy as a Design Problem with Whitney Quesenbery — DT101 E68
Designing Elections? Yes! Whitney Quesenbery and I talk about designing elections, designing in...
Your Good-Life OS: Designing a System for Living Well and Peak Performance // ALD 004 — DT101 E67
Thank you for listening to this Ask Like a Designer episode of the Design Thinking 101 Podcast. In...
Learning Service Design + Leading Service Transformation with Clive Grinyer — DT101 E66
Clive Grinyer is the Head of Service Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Clive's an...
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