Design is for Everyone

Design is for Everyone

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Design is for Everyone episodes

  • Anna Cook - The Value of Accessibility

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore the role of design in society, and how our decisions affect the world around us.

    Today we’re talking with the amazing Anna Cook, currently working as Senior Inclusive Designer at Microsoft. Anna is an accessibility designer and advocate, making her best efforts into helping share the word so that everything we as designers create is ever more accessible to all. Be it through her strong and clear stance on the role of accessibility in the design process, or simply ketchup design jokes.

    Fun fact, we recorded this episode a while ago before she joined Microsoft.

    57 min
  • Live @ designFAO w/ Kate Pincott, João Miranda & Benny Zuffolini - Dealing with Design in a Post-Democratization Era

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    This is a very special episode of the Design is for Everyone Podcast.

    designFAO, a new design conference was kind enough to invite us to join their stage for a very special conversation with 3 amazing people, 3 amazing designers that accepted the challenge of sharing their design insights with us. They were Kate Pincott, an amazing design coach slash head of design at Mattereum. João Miranda, Typographer extraordinaire, and Benny Zuffolini, Product Design Director, Mother of Bunnies, and a great conversationist. We gathered around the topic of dealing with design in a post-democratization era. Hope you enjoy this episode.

    42 min
  • Peter Donahue - About Color and How We See the World

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore how people perceive design and all the components surrounding it.

    In this episode, we're chatting with Peter Donahue, also known as color.nerd on TikTok. An arts teacher by day, content creator in his free time, Peter has embraced the world of color theory and wants to make it more understandable and correct for everyone starting from a young age.

    54 min
  • Miguel Cardona - What's up with Design Education

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore how design can become a tool for change, and how sharing knowledge could leverage that change.

    In this episode we’re talking with Miguel Cardona, also known as Miggi. Miguel is a design educator at heart, with a long history of trying to bring the future of design into classrooms.

    Nowadays he’s a designer advocate at Figma where he pushes for everyone to have access to the design tools educators want, and students need.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Antimo Farid - Design for Non-Designers

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore the reach of design as a language for everyone, not just the professional elite of pro designers. 

    In this episode, we're talking with Antimo Farid. Trained in a comic book school, started early as a designer, but was taken off a design career through life's path. Antimo found in design a language for everyone to communicate better, and he's made it his purpose to share that vision and that knowledge with have everyone ready to listen, or to read his book. 

    46 min
  • Xavier Martins - To Stop Being a Designer

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore what it means for design to be a tool for all, and how that can apply to our daily lives, making the world a better place.

    In this episode, we meet with Xavier Martins. A designer turned project manager, Xavier tells us a bit about his journey into the world of design and the transition out but also focuses a lot on how learning the craft affected the way he interacts with the world.

    46 min
  • Ahmad ”Akee” Kazi - Becoming a Designer

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that intends to explore what it means to be a designer, and how the role of design has evolved in the global context. This time, we're speaking with Akee, a data analyst turned designer about entering the design industry.

    He brings us a unique perspective on what it meant for him to be welcome to design and takes us through his path from the moment he figured out design was a future to pursue.

    52 min
  • Catarina Marques - The Gender Gap

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that every week explores the many sides of design, and discusses the role of democratization of the practice in a global context, and where today, we'll be talking with Catarina Marques.

    Catarina is a graphic designer by training, that has made her career in the world of creativity. Recently, she joined Offf Academy with her project Mind the Gap, a visual exploration of the many gaps that women deal with in the creative industries, and how that affects entire generations of talent yet to join the design and creative markets.

    45 min
  • Felix Lee - The Value of Mentoring

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    The Design is for Everyone podcast is a project that every week discusses the role of design in a global context, and how it could become a tool for all, not just the few. 

    In this episode, our guest is one of the co-founders of ADPList Felix Lee. Felix is an engineering student turned designer, that saw that the world needed a better way to help others learn. And so it created a platform for mentoring used by thousands every day.

    40 min
  • Grace Ling - Entering the World of Design

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    Design is for Everyone podcast is A show that journeys through the layers of what design is, and what design can be. Made for and with people from all around the globe.

    In this episode we will be chatting with the founder of Design Buddies, Grace Ling. 

    Grace is a young overachiever, with a very diverse background that drover into design as a job and communities as a passion. We'll be talking about her path and learning how a bioengineering undergrad turns into a game designer/founder at the age of 24, and all the work that she's been doing for the young designers' community.

    57 min

About Design is for Everyone

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Now that the technology is accessible, knowledge is shared openly, and communities thrive under digital spaces, it's a truly special moment for design to outgrow its origins and become a tool for all, and not only the few.