Scratch a follower of Ayn Rand and you’ll find someone who looks to the government for help in a hurricane. Pragmatic design leader and public sector champion Cyd Harrell joins us to talk about the practice of designing systems for citizens.

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18F

Space Camp

The Legacy Museum & The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

Why Disney World Has Its Own Government

Get Into Government: An Insider's Tips for Breaking In

California Government Operations Agency

Web Standards and Design System for California Government

U.S. Web Design System

Code for America Brigade Network

Tech for Campaigns

Ragtag

Menudo

Hatch Act of 1939, An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities

Slow Ideas

EveryoneOn

While we weren’t paying attention, software ate the world and barfed up a hellscape. By taking a broader set of perspectives, designers can work with informed intention to create ethical and profitable systems.

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Thinking in Triplicate

Facebook Ad Campaign

John Elkington

Triple bottom line

Slaughterhouse-Five

Too good to survive: The rise and fall of Rdio

Basecamp

Barber surgeon

Womb Chair

Ball Chair

They Live

We sat down with Dan Brown to talk about the joy and pain of facilitation, issues with various types of maps, and why designers have to get comfortable talking to people. Dan is a titan of Information Architecture, co-founder of EightShapes, and the author of several useful books and tools for doing better design work. Apologies to Boston.

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EPISODE LINKS

Dan Brown

EightShapes

Twitter

Medium

 

Dan’s cards

Information Architecture Lenses

Twitter

Medium

 

Dan’s book

Practical Design Discovery

 

California Three States Initiative

ballotpedia.org

 

#unicorn Vans

They're real

 

IA Summit

iasummit.org

 

Jared Spool

Wikipedia

Center Centre

Medium

Don’t call it gamification. Author, game designer, and CEO of Shufflebrain, Amy Jo Kim joins us to talk about her Game Thinking methodology, the joy of working independently, and getting clients to walk through the fire and accept criticism they might not want to hear.

 

 

P.S. Amy Jo has a podcast!

Getting2Alpha

Designer Khoi Vinh joins us to talk about his take on the job of a designer and his efforts to make the field more accessible.

 

 

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In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible

Fiverr

99designs

Apple Swift

CodePen

Design is a Job

Juicero

Adobe XD

Designer News

What is the job of a designer? This is our first episode and this topic will be the theme of our first season.