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Innovation Smart Start Webinar
Your next project could be easier, faster and more effective if you play smart at the start. In this webinar Dawan will teach you ways to ask like a designer so your projects succeed more often and your revenue grow.
Design Thinking in Practice: a conversation between Allen Higgins & Dawan Stanford — DT101 E115
Allen Higgins joins me as we share host and guest roles to talk about design practice systems and creating for and with the people we serve. Alan is a research associate and lecturer in the Center for Innovation Technology and Organization in the School of Business at...
Ethics + Education + Power + Design with Mike Monteiro — DT101 E114
Mike Monteiro is a designer and the author of Ruined By Design, You're My Favorite Client, The Collected Angers, and the newly-revised Design is a Job. [smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/designthinking101/DT101_114_V2.mp3"...
Thinking, Solving & Transformative Communication: Design + Visualization with Hazel White — DT101 E113
Hazel White is a designer and a visualizer. She creates simple visuals to help communicate complex ideas. We talk about how design and visualization combine to facilitate thinking, fuel solving, and create transformative change. [smart_track_player...
Cognitive Bias + Ethics + Dreaming the Future of Design with David Dylan Thomas — DT101 E112
David Dylan Thomas is the author of Design for Cognitive Bias and the creator and host of the Cognitive Bias podcast. Dave has consulted with major clients in entertainment, healthcare, publishing, finance, and retail. As the founder and CEO of David Dylan Thomas,...
5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About Appreciative Inquiry with Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell — DT101 E111
This episode of the Design Thinking 101 podcast is 5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: Appreciative Inquiry. Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell are co-presidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting. [smart_track_player...
5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About Positive Childhood Experiences with Robert Sege — DT101 E110
This episode of the Design Thinking 101 podcast is 5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: Positive Childhood Experiences. Dr. Robert Sege, MD PhD is a pediatrician at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center, and a professor of medicine at...
Healthcare Innovation + Nursing + Opportunities for Designers — DT101 E109
Michael Ackerman is currently the director of the Master in Healthcare Innovation Program and Professor of Clinical Nursing and the director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Leadership at the Ohio State University College of Nursing. He also maintains a...
Designing a Learning System for the Good Life // ALD 013 — DT101 E108
This is a Design Thinking 101 episode in the Ask Like a Designer series. Ask Like a Designer helps people explore thinking and solving like a designer. You’ll learn about design thinking, service design, learning design, leading and building high-performing teams, and...
Humans + AI + Design with Ruth Kikin-Gil — DT101 E107
Ruth Kikin-Gil is a design strategist, a digital product designer, and a practical dreamer who focuses on product innovation across devices, input methods, and platforms. At Microsoft, she leads the Responsible AI Practices for Microsoft's security organization. She...
5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About Hacking Bureaucracy with Marina Nitze — DT101 E106
Marina Nitze is co-author of the book Hack Your Bureaucracy and works at Layer Aleph, a crisis response firm that specializes in restoring complex software systems to service. Marina was the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under...