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The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.

In this episode Matthew Voshell, Head of Experience Design, Client Technology | FSO at EY joins Andy to share his tips and experience about managing a globally distributed team, and how the extroverts are handling the world of remote work.

If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.

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The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.

In this episode Dr John Curran, host of Decoding Culture on This is HCD, joins Andy to talk about the new normal, negotiating with family, being intentional with connecting with friends, and he comes up with a better phrase than social distancing.

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We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team, and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste.

How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where reuse is at the core of thinking. One where the Earth Experience is central. Gerry McGovern will talk to designers who are pioneering green digital thinking and methods.

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In this episode, I chat with the wonderful Amy Bucher, VP of Behavior Change from Mad*Pow in Boston in the United States. We chat about the emerging role of behavior change design and how it intersects with other disciplines like service design and user experience. I'll also cover off my personal unease with behavior change design, and unpack its ethical use - and sometimes its misuse - across industries.

Amy gives fascinating examples of her work in healthcare and how she has used behavior change design to help improve the lives of people using those services. And we discuss how behavior change design practitioners sit within a more traditional design process and discuss the origins of her new book Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change on Rosenfeld Media.

Now the folks over at Rosenfeld Media are amazing supporters of This is HCD and have given our listeners an exclusive 15% discount on Amys book!

So all you have to do is go over to Rosenfeld Media and use the code HCDENGAGED to get the discount.

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• Amy on LinkedIn / https://www.linkedin.com/in/amybucher/

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We're in the middle of an unprecedented social experiment with so many people working remotely and many entire families staying home. Yet there's so much that still connects us together and that we can learn from. The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion on This is HCD.

Maybe this is all new and they're discovering a new lifestyle. Maybe they've been working remotely all this time and now everyone else in their company has joined them, or perhaps their freelance life has turned upside down.

The Big Remote dives into guests' remote work and collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more.

If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.

N.B. The first episode will appear in the main This is HCD feed, then the rest will be in The Big Remote's own feed available at all the places you normally get podcasts.

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Welcome to the Global Jams podcast – a new podcast on the This is HCD network. 

The Global Jams are the world’s biggest service design thinking and doing events. In the Global Jams Podcast we share the latest perspectives on running successful Jams, sprints and hacks. 

We show how anyone can join the productive fun, and connect the global community of Hosts and Jammers.

If you like this podcast and you would like to learn more, make sure you subscribe at http://globaljams.org/podcast 

In this episode the co-initiators of the Global Jams Markus Hormeß and Adam Lawrence will talk about why there is a need for yet another podcast and what they have planned for it. And discuss what's happening at this years Global Service Jam.

Find out more about the Jams: http://globaljams.org

The home of this podcast: http://globaljams.org/podcast 

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Sam Ladner is a sociologist who helps teams innovate, design, and learn. She is the author of Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector and Mixed Methods: A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods Research. She has worked on dozens of advanced software projects including Alexa, the Echo Look, Windows 10, Microsoft Office 2016, Cortana, and HoloLens. She currently works at Workday, an enterprise software company, as a Principal Researcher studying the future of work. She received her PhD in sociology from York University and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and cat.

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Gerry and Andy discuss the new plans for Design Politics 2020 in the light of the coronavirus situation, a bumper crop of books in Andy's Book Corner for your reading now that you're stuck at home all day, a study in how Canadians go to the toilet, and Gerry gets out his guitar and sings... No, really.

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Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and onto changes in society and the world.

In this episode, Douglas Ferguson talks about his book, Beyond the Prototype, which offers a six step plan for companies struggling with the shift from discovery to launch, especially in the post-sprint slump and his experience working directly with the Google Ventures Design Sprint coaches. Douglas also talks about the role of making and recording music in shaping his thought process. And math rock.

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• Douglas Ferguson - aka @TheDUG on Twitter
• The Beyond the Prototype book site
• Voltage Control

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→ FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
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→ Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
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• How to Be a Better Leader 
• Myths of Management

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→ FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
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→ Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
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