The Huddle Show

This week Matt, Caitlyn and Vito talk about outcomes versus outputs and their experience in dealing with the different pressures of focusing on the deliverable and fixation on the outcome. They discuss the pros and cons of both perspectives before moving into a rapid fire mystery question session. Caitlyn discusses Huddle's upcoming Modern Women's Anthology, Vito talks about buying a new bike and Matt talks about something that Vito finds interesting yet is left feeling wanting.

Thanks

Many thanks to Matt, Vito and Caitlyn for this week's show and to Sam for the mystery questions.

In this week’s episode Matt, Caitlyn and Cam begin by talking about values and design principles, and end up in a really interesting discussion about intuition, learning, and artificial intelligence. Which then begs the question: what is the role of Human Centred Design in a world where not all people are human? Our mystery question from Annie takes us back to the future and Cait and Matt share a little bit about what has spiked their interest this week.

Links:

Consciousness has less control than believed, according to new theory - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150623141911.htm

Thanks

Many thanks to Matt, Cait and Cam, and Annie for this week’s mystery question.

This week Cam, Matt and Cat journey back inside our studio to talk about what it is to be a Strategic Designer, while sharing a little bit about their backgrounds and how they found transitioning into the world of strategic design. Today's mystery question is provided by listener Morgan - Are Human Beings just Machines?

Today Melis is joined by special guest Mark, CEO of a leading Australian enterprise, with whom Melis has been working for some time now. Today they explore what it takes to lead an organisation towards customer centricity, personally and organisationally. They tackle the open ended mystery question "If they could change one thing…” And Mark passionately reveals an amazing new product he helped launch that morning, and Melis spoke about the Future of Jobs growth summit run by Global Access Partners.

Links

Essentials by AAI and Good Shepherd - https://www.essentialsbyaai.com.au

Global Access Partners Growth Summit - Future of Jobs - http://www.globalaccesspartners.org/think-tanks/growth-summit

Many thanks to Mark for being an awesome client, and a fantastic guest on The Huddle Show. Thanks to Melis for hosting.

This week we go Inside the Studio with Matt, Jess and Vito for a look at the world of our communication designers and the role of comms design in strategic design. Our mysterious mystery question was provided by Melis: Is reality real? Jess talked about her recent experience designing with some kids in school and Vito shares some thoughts on getting into Service Design with the book This is Service Design Thinking.

Links:

http://thisisservicedesignthinking.com

Many thanks to Matt, Jess and Vito and to Melis for the Mystery question.

Part 2 of our inside the studio mini series talks with Huddle's Strategic Designers when they ponder What is Strategic Design anyway. Stay tuned for that in Episode Nine of The Huddle Show.

In this week’s episode Melis and Cam return to talk about the Meaning of Work. Today’s mystery question about superpowers is from Phil Bickerdike from Huddle. It turns out that Sense-Making is quite different from Making Sense. Melis brought in the topic of trust, and we ended up talking about quality and courage to stop and work out why something is not working.

The Huddle Show - Now with less music.

Links:

Fernando Flores Conversations for Action: http://conversationsforaction.com/fernando-flores

Many thanks to Melis and Phil for this episode.

In todays episode, Cam is joined by Huddlers Sarah and Caitlyn and we explore the importance of fun in work, and its role in creativity. With today’s mystery question provided by Cat Dos Santos, we then explore why designers will survive the Zombie Apocolypse, regardless of how hard I found that to say. Plus Sarah talked about Improv and how much fun that can be, and we talked about the importance of setting goals based on feelings.

Links:

The Desire Map http://www.daniellelaporte.com/thedesiremap/

Many thanks to Sarah and Caitlyn for co-hosting today and to Cat for the mystery question.

Please suggest topics you’d like us to explore and mystery questions via twitter to @wearehuddle #hey.huddle #huddleshow

A special guest joins Cam and Cat today: Hugh Evans, CEO of Enterprise Design firm FromHereOn, a strategic Huddle partner. Together we have been working a lot internationally, so today we are talking about remote working and international collaboration. The mystery question about strategic designer archetypes was provided by Huddler Kylie S. We also talked about thinking like a freak, the design process of rebranding and what happens when people don't succeed.

Links:

Think Like a Freak - https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/think-like-a-freak/id785263981?mt=11

Google's Rebrand - http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/google-update.html

Rising Strong - Brené Brown -

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/rising-strong/id936551625?mt=11

Empathy Animation - Brené Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

Thanks

Many thanks to Hugh Evans for joining The Huddle Show today, and to Cat for co-hosting with Cam.

Today our hosts are Melis and Zaana who talk about mindsets and the characteristics of designers; They are surprised by the mystery question from Annie C, about advice for the male version of yourself, which turned into a general discussion about leadership and gender. They then moved on to a discussion about women in leadership, and they finish with an interesting discussion about "turning the ship around", intention and stance, and changing leadership styles.

In our second episode, Melis is joined by Matt to discuss Mastery in the context of design, and in the process they discuss iaido, dojo's, fuzzy ninjas, and Dan Pink’s Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Today’s mystery question was submitted by Cat S-L., who asked about the relevance of the past and the future, and Melis and Matt talk about desired futures, George Orwell, chakras, and particles. They also address the important question of what is meaning in a virtualised world?

Iaido - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iaido

Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism or the English Socialist Party) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingsoc

Of course the film they are talking about is Interstellar - not Intergalactic.

Today’s hosts were Melis Senova and Matt Buckley. Recorded and produced by Cam at Huddle.