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Innovation Smart Start Webinar
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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 Design: The Innovator’s Journey, a book she co-authored with Jeanne Liedtka and Jessica Eldridge. In DT101 Books episodes, authors explore why their book exists and what it will...
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 corporations and scaling startups, using a small studio’s identity design framework. John and his team also work with creatives to bring peace to people's lives. Today, John and I talk about...
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. This episode is about how to use “How might we …” questions to anchor your innovation projects, align your team, and adjust the problem you are trying to solve as you learn. This...
Democracy as a Design Problem with Whitney Quesenbery — DT101 E68
Designing Elections? Yes! Whitney Quesenbery and I talk about designing elections, designing in government, and the future of election design. We dive deep into the world of elections, and Whitney’s and the Center for Civic Design’s work to help election officials nationwide design better elections.
Your Good-Life OS: Designing a System for Living Well and Peak Performance // ALD 004 — DT101 E67
This episode is about running your own experiments using our system for high performance with living well at its core — Fluid Hive’s Good-Life Operating System.
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 acknowledged expert in service design, design thinking, and design and technology innovation who has led award-winning design teams for companies around the globe. He started in design...
There Are No Problems Worth Solving — Only Questions Worth Asking // ALD 003 — DT101 E65
This episode is based on this article: ALD 003 // There Are No Problems Worth Solving – Only Questions Worth Asking. Read the article and others like it on Fluid Hive’s Ask Like a Designer. This Ask Like a Designer episode is about a better way to see and choose problems to...
Micro Course: How to Conduct Listening Sessions with Indi Young — DT101 E64
In this episode, Indi Young joins me to deliver a micro-course on listening sessions. I’m experimenting with new ways to learn on the podcast. Listeners will learn from Indi as we talk about listening sessions, what they are, how to do them, why they matter and how to get the...
Design, and One Question to Rule Them All // ALD 002 — DT101 E63
This episode is about a question behind almost everything people do as they create growth and opportunity by seeing and solving like a designer.
Civic Design + Innovation Ops + System Design with Ryann Hoffman — DT101 E62
Ryann Hoffman is a system designer and design leader specializing in design and complex systems and working with organizations to develop capacity in design thinking and innovation operations.