Surya Vanka brings his hallmark energy to this conversation about the power of design, the challenges the field faces, and how he’s using Design Swarms to ignite creativity.

Highlights include:

⭐ Why is your mission, “to unleash the design thinker in every person”?

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Who is Surya Vanka?

Surya is a design innovator with over 25 years of hands-on experience bringing the design of physical and digital products to life. And through Authentic Design, the studio he founded in 2014, he is on a mission to unlock the creative potential of everyone on the planet.

One of the ways Surya is doing that is through Design Swarms - a democratic design approach - used by organisations like the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations, and Global Humanitarian Lab, to help tackle a variety of wicked problems, including the Opioid Epidemic, Domestic Violence, Water Borne Diseases, Digital Equity, and Ocean Pollution. 

Before founding Authentic Design, Surya was a Director of User Experience at Microsoft, based at the Redmond campus. There, he led multiple design teams, including the enterprise-wide design excellence team, and was a key contributor to Microsoft’s experience-led renewal.

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Find Surya here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suryavanka/

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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:

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