The Design Thinking 101 Podcast
Stories about what’s possible when you think and solve like a designer
Public Sector Design + Outcome Chains + Prototyping for Impact with Boris Divjak — DT101 E26
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I’m interviewing Boris Divjak. He is a service designer and strategist based in the U.K., with 13 years of experience in creating digital services. He leads and advises teams on digital...
Healthcare Design Dynamics + Design Team Formation with Steve Reay — DT101 E25
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 Podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I’m interviewing Steve Reay. Steve is currently director of Good Health Design, a collaborative design studio at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He is affiliated with...
Healthcare Design Teams + Wellness + ScienceXDesign with Chris McCarthy — DT101 E24
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 Podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I’m interviewing Chris McCarthy. He is the Vice President of Strategy & Design at Hopelab where he is excited to deepen its impact on the health and wellness of young people through...
Design Thinking at Work + Three Tensions Designers Navigate with David Dunne — DT101 E23
David Dunne is a Professor and the Director of MBA Programs at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business. David and I were introduced by Paolo Korre, who you may remember from an earlier episode of the show. We’ll chat today about a range of subjects,...
Service Design in Healthcare Inside Multiple Business Contexts with Jessica Dugan — DT101 E22
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. I’m excited to welcome Jessica Dugan to today’s episode. Jessica is a Design Principal on the Healthcare Design team at 3M Design. She has worked in the healthcare industry for over five years....
Designer’s Role in Healthcare & Public Health + Studio Thinking with Jess Roberts — DT101 E21
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Jess Roberts joins me today for a conversation about the designer’s role in healthcare, problem-finding with healthcare experts, the importance of the design studio in his work, and design...
Learning and Leading Design for Healthcare + Innovation Teams with Paolo Korre — DT101 E20
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. My guest today is Paolo Korre, Director of Service Design and User Insight for SE Health, a not-for-profit healthcare company in Ontario, Canada. We’ll chat today about Paolo’s transition from...
Design for Mental Health: Creating an Effective Response to Student Loneliness with Denise Ho and Andrew Baker — DT101 E60
Denise Ho and Andrew Baker are our guests today. Denise is a design researcher practicing in the...
Teams, Sprints, Prototyping, and Better Meetings with Douglas Ferguson — DT101 E59
Douglas Ferguson is the founder of Voltage Control, a workshop agency on a mission to rid the...
Learning Design with Yianna Vovides — DT101 E58
Yianna Vovides is the Director of Learning Design and Research at the Center for New Designs and...
Critical and Emancipatory Design Thinking with Lesley-Ann Noel — DT101 E57
Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel is the Associate Director for Design Thinking for Social Impact and a...
Rethinking Service Design + Student Projects + Community Systems with Amy O’Keefe — DT101 E56
Amy O'Keefe is the Studio Director of Northwestern university’s Master of Science and Engineering...
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