The Design Thinking 101 Podcast
Stories about what’s possible when you think and solve like a designer
Teaching University Students + Connecting Design Thinking, Art and Making with Martin Dominguez — DT101 E12
Martin is a graphic designer who teaches design thinking at Fordham University. He’s also the cofounder at WOMB Service Design Lab. We’ll talk about what works for students in the design thinking classroom, how Martin has helped people wrestle through working...
Design Ethics in Augmented and Virtual Reality + Building a Design Career with Aaron Faucher — DT101 E11
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Tune into this episode for a fascinating conversation with Aaron Faucher, a product designer focused on design ethics and augmented reality. You’ll hear about lessons from his path into design...
Designing Your Life and Teaching Design Thinking with Eugene Korsunskiy — DT101 E10
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today, I’m joined by Eugene Korsunskiy. Eugene is a design thinking consultant and the Senior Coordinator of Design Initiatives at the University of Vermont. Both there and at Stanford, Eugene...
Design Research, Clients as Design Evangelists, the Humanscale Reissue with Nathan Ritter — DT101 E9
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. I’m happy to announce that today’s guest is Nathan Ritter, a design researcher at IA Collaborative. We’ll talk about how his path to being a third-generation mechanical engineer turned into a...
Coaching and Leading Design Teams, Key Design Methods and How Coaching and Design Thinking Converge with Rebecca Horton — DT101 E8
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today I’m excited to speak with Rebecca Horton, a designer, coach, and long-time colleague and friend. In our conversation, we’ll talk about how to coach and lead design teams, some design...
A Designer’s Pathway, Working with Clients, and Design Thinking DC with Arty Rivera – DT101 E7
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Artemio “Arty” Rivera, a former designer at 3Pillar Global and current UX Lead at Capital One as well as a leader at Design Thinking DC, joins me today to talk about the learning experiences...
Problem Spaces, Understanding How People Think, and Practical Empathy with Indi Young — DT101 E6
Welcome to the Design Thinking 101 podcast! I’m Dawan Stanford, your host. Today’s guest is the remarkable Indi Young, author of Mental Models and Practical Empathy. Indi was a founder at Adaptive Path, and is one of the design field’s leading visionaries on how we...
Design for Good + Gut Checks + Seeing Power with George Aye — DT101 E50
Today’s guest is George Aye, the co-founder of Greater Good Studio and an Adjunct Full Professor...
Designing Your Team + Teams in Design Education + Coaching Design Teams with Mary Sherwin and David Sherwin — DT101 E49
David and Mary Sherwin work with design teams in for-profit and nonprofit organizations via their...
Understanding Customers: Research, Insights, and Storytelling with Steve Portigal — DT101 E48
Steve Portigal is the Principal of Portigal Consulting and an experienced user researcher who...
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...
Prototyping Insights + The Prototyping Canvas with Carlye Lauff — DT101 E46
Carlye Lauff is an independent contractor specializing in innovation strategy and design research....
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