This is HCD: Human-Centred Design, UX & Service Design

This is HCD: Human-Centred Design, UX & Service Design

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This is HCD: Human-Centred Design, UX & Service Design episodes

  • Gerry McGovern 'Top Tasks; A method for understanding peoples product and service requirements'
    There's some of you might know the Top Tasks methodology already and even if you do, I'd encourage you to listen to this episode, as I break down the method to better understand the mechanics behind Top Tasks, and also get Gerry's insights into where it works well - as well as looking at the origins of the method. There's so much wisdom in this episode, I just know you'll enjoy it -
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    31 min
  • Hazel White & Mike Press 'Making a difference through design'

     

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    Now before we jump into the interview, i wanted to mention we have a shelf load of books to give-away as thank you to all of our listeners in 2018. To be in with a chance of winning the books, you need to be on our newsletter which you can subscribe on at thisishcd.com – we’ve got books from O’Reilly Media  in NYC one of our biggest supporters, as well as exclusive TIHCD discounts for Rosenfeld Media books and also have 2 books from the guys at Smashing Magazine. We also have signed copies of Andy Polaines Service Design book and Gerry McGovern’s latest book, Top Tasks. 

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    • Gerry Scullion - Host
    • Stef Murphy - Producer

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      30 min
    • Hazel White & Mike Press 'Making a difference through design'
      Hazel White and Mike Press from OpenChange in Scotland join me on the show this week, and we dig  a little deeper into what myself and sarah drummond covered about the changes in the scottish design landscape and what trigged this. We speak more about a walkabout, service safari or observational masterclass that the guys gave at service design days in barcelona, and what’s so good about these types of workshop activities.
      Now before we jump into the interview, i wanted to mention we have a shelf load of books to give-away as thank you to all of our listeners in 2018. To be in with a chance of winning the books, you need to be on our newsletter which you can subscribe on our website at thisishcd.com - we’ve got books from O’Reilly Media  in NYC one of our biggest supporters, as well as exclusive TIHCD discounts for Rosenfeld Media books and also have 2 books from the guys at Smashing Magazine. We also have signed copies of Andy Polaines Service Design book and Gerry McGovern’s latest book, Top Tasks.
      Read the transcript of this episode on our website
      Visit OpenChange.co.uk
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      30 min
    • Andy Polaine 'Mindful Service Design'

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      In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years.

      I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it.

      Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean.

      Links from this episode

      • Andy's slides from Service Design Days, Barcelona
      • Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordnet.com 
      • Read the transcript of this episode at thisisHCD.com
      • Buy Andy's book that he co-authored 'Service Design - From Insight to Implementation'

      Creators & Guests

      • Gerry Scullion - Host
      • Stef Murphy - Producer

        • ________________________
        BRING THIS IS HCD INTO YOUR ORGANISATION

        → Train my organisation https://www.thisishcd.com/training
        → Video Courses https://www.thisishcd.com/courses
        → Coaching Community (Coaching, Courses, WhatsApp) https://www.thisishcd.com/members
        → Gerry's consultancy (Service Design and Design Research) https://humana.design/

        ________________________
        BECOME A DIRECTORY MEMBER (IT'S FREE!) and get all of this

        → FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
        https://www.thisishcd.com/dashboard/learning/introduction-to-journey-management
        → Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
        → Claim partner discounts https://www.thisishcd.com/partners
        Gerry wears clothes from Sutsu, and has a coupon code for them, as well as Smaply, Scenario Cards, Unit 1 and more...
        ________________________

        All episodes have been produced by This is Podcasting. 


        19 min
      • Andy Polaine 'Mindful Service Design'
        In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years.
        I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it.
        Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean.
        Christmas giveaways 
        Also before I jump in I want to let you all know I'm working on creating a very very special newsletter for Christmas with lots of the world's best book companies and authors, so if you're not in the podcast newsletter, you should sign up for our newsletter. This Christmas newsletter will include discounts and giveaways, just in time for those Christmas stocking fillers.
        Right, let's get into the episode.
        Links from this episode
        Andy's slides from Service Design Days, Barcelona
        Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordnet.com 
        Read the transcript of this episode at thisisHCD.com
        Buy Andy's book that he co-authored 'Service Design - From Insight to Implementation'
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        19 min
      • Steve Portigal 'Symbolic Lab Coats, ASMR and Coke-Fueled Lap Dances: More User Research War Stories'

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        Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I'm your host Chi Ryan, and in this episode, I'm speaking to researcher Steve Portigal. Steve is the Principal of Portigal Consulting and the author of two books: Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, and Doorbells Danger and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories.


        Creators & Guests

        • Gerry Scullion - Host
        • Stef Murphy - Producer

          • ________________________
          BRING THIS IS HCD INTO YOUR ORGANISATION

          → Train my organisation https://www.thisishcd.com/training
          → Video Courses https://www.thisishcd.com/courses
          → Coaching Community (Coaching, Courses, WhatsApp) https://www.thisishcd.com/members
          → Gerry's consultancy (Service Design and Design Research) https://humana.design/

          ________________________
          BECOME A DIRECTORY MEMBER (IT'S FREE!) and get all of this

          → FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
          https://www.thisishcd.com/dashboard/learning/introduction-to-journey-management
          → Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
          → Claim partner discounts https://www.thisishcd.com/partners
          Gerry wears clothes from Sutsu, and has a coupon code for them, as well as Smaply, Scenario Cards, Unit 1 and more...
          ________________________

          All episodes have been produced by This is Podcasting. 


          48 min
        • Steve Portigal 'Symbolic Lab Coats, ASMR and Coke-Fueled Lap Dances: More User Research War Stories'
          Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I'm your host Chi Ryan, and in this episode, I'm speaking to researcher Steve Portigal. Steve is the Principal of Portigal Consulting and the author of two books: Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights, and Doorbells Danger and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories.
          Based outside San Francisco, Steve helps companies to think and act strategically as a result of human insights. Steve has his own podcast, Dollars to Donuts, where he interviews people who lead user research in their organizations.
          Throughout his career, Steve has interviewed hundreds of people including families eating breakfast, hotel maintenance staff, architects, rock musicians, home automation enthusiasts, credit default swap traders, and radiologists. His work has informed the development of mobile devices, medical information systems, music gear, wine packaging, financial services, corporate internet and video conferencing systems. Wowsers - Steve has really done a lot of things!
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          Resources
          Doorbells, Dangers and Dead Batteries
          Interviewing Users 
          Portigal Consulting
          Rosenfeld Media 
          Steve Portigal on LinkedIn 
          Vox Media 
          Dollars to Donuts podcast
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          48 min
        • John Thackara 'Designing for all of life, not just human life'

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          ________________________


          In this episode we discussed John's work at great detail, his keynote at Service Design Days, and spoke about the greater purpose of design and maybe even human centered design isn't broad enough as it should include animals and the greatest resource of them all, the earth. Now this episode is definitely one of those where you want to listen and then repeat.

          Creators & Guests

          • Gerry Scullion - Host
          • Stef Murphy - Producer

            • ________________________
            BRING THIS IS HCD INTO YOUR ORGANISATION

            → Train my organisation https://www.thisishcd.com/training
            → Video Courses https://www.thisishcd.com/courses
            → Coaching Community (Coaching, Courses, WhatsApp) https://www.thisishcd.com/members
            → Gerry's consultancy (Service Design and Design Research) https://humana.design/

            ________________________
            BECOME A DIRECTORY MEMBER (IT'S FREE!) and get all of this

            → FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
            https://www.thisishcd.com/dashboard/learning/introduction-to-journey-management
            → Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
            → Claim partner discounts https://www.thisishcd.com/partners
            Gerry wears clothes from Sutsu, and has a coupon code for them, as well as Smaply, Scenario Cards, Unit 1 and more...
            ________________________

            All episodes have been produced by This is Podcasting. 


            23 min
          • John Thackara 'Designing for all of life, not just human life'
            Hello and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. My name is Gerry Scullion and I'm a human centered design practitioner based in Dublin, Ireland, and this week I caught up with one of my design heroes, John Thackara whilst I was hosting the incredible Service Design Days conference in Barcelona recently. I was so happy to speak to John, having read much of his work for such a long time and currently reading his latest fantastic book 'How to thrive in the next economy' a book that has led to the Wall Street Journal to call John 'cutting edge design expert' or even the Great Bill Moggridge stating 'whatever you're designing, keep this book next to you know'.
            Signed book giveaway
            Now, I'm lucky to say I have a signed copy of this book in my hands right now to giveaway, so be in with a chance all you need to do is go over request to join the slack channel on thisishcd.com where I'll be giving the book away inside the channel this Friday at noon GMT.
            In this episode we discussed John's work at great detail, his keynote at Service Design Days, and spoke about the greater purpose of design and maybe even human centered design isn't broad enough as it should include animals and the greatest resource of them all, the earth. Now this episode is definitely one of those where you want to listen and then repeat.
            Buy 'How to thrive in the next economy'
            Visit Johns website thackara.com
            Follow John on Twitter
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            23 min
          • Frank Long 'Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes'

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            Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principal based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland's UX forefathers. Frank mentored me way back in the nineties and shortly after he began working in the usability and accessibility space for Frontend, one of Europe's oldest UX consultancies. A number of years ago when I was living in Sydney, I began to see Frontend winning awards, left right and center, such as at the iXDA awards in America, then again in Lyon and UX Awards and so on, beating some stiff competition to some of the biggest design awards in the design world. Now I wanted to go and dig a little deeper to understand what they were doing internally and how they were doing it and turns out they created an initiative called DesignFix.


            Creators & Guests

            • Gerry Scullion - Host
            • Stef Murphy - Producer

              • ________________________
              BRING THIS IS HCD INTO YOUR ORGANISATION

              → Train my organisation https://www.thisishcd.com/training
              → Video Courses https://www.thisishcd.com/courses
              → Coaching Community (Coaching, Courses, WhatsApp) https://www.thisishcd.com/members
              → Gerry's consultancy (Service Design and Design Research) https://humana.design/

              ________________________
              BECOME A DIRECTORY MEMBER (IT'S FREE!) and get all of this

              → FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion (Sign up for free with an email)
              https://www.thisishcd.com/dashboard/learning/introduction-to-journey-management
              → Discover & Connect with others https://www.thisishcd.com/directory
              → Claim partner discounts https://www.thisishcd.com/partners
              Gerry wears clothes from Sutsu, and has a coupon code for them, as well as Smaply, Scenario Cards, Unit 1 and more...
              ________________________

              All episodes have been produced by This is Podcasting. 


              42 min

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