Sheryl Cababa is the Chief Strategy Officer of Substantial, an experience design consultancy based in Seattle. She’s the author of Closing the Loop, a new book about systems thinking in design. The book emphasizes the role designers can play as catalysts for social change, and that is the focus of our conversation.

Show notes

• Sheryl Cababa - LinkedIn
• Sheryl Cababa (@SherylCababa)
• Substantial
• University of Washington - Human Centered Design & Engineering
• Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers by Sheryl Cababa
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge
• Peter Checkland
• Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results, by David Peter Stroh
• Iceberg Model - Ecochallenge.org
• What is the STEEP analysis? - FourWeekMBA
• Revolution 1 by The Beatles
• UXLx - User Experience Lisbon
• Enterprise UX 2023

Rosenfeld Media provided a review copy of Sheryl’s book.

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