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The Human Centered Design is the premier podcast for human-centered design enthusiasts on the internet with over 1 million downloads and is led by Gerry Scullion.
As the leading destination for insights, skills, and expertise, our mission is to empower individuals keen on designing a more inclusive and positive future for everyone. Join us as we convene thought leaders from diverse fields—service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management—to delve into the nuances of the craft. Our engaging discussions aim to illuminate what it truly means to adopt and excel in a human-centric design approach. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, "This is HCD" offers valuable perspectives to enhance your understanding and application of human-centered design principles. Tune in to explore how we can collectively make a meaningful impact on the world around us through intentional and thoughtful design.
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The Human Centered Design is the premier podcast for human-centered design enthusiasts on the internet with over 1 million downloads and is led by Gerry Scullion.
As the leading destination for insights, skills, and expertise, our mission is to empower individuals keen on designing a more inclusive and positive future for everyone. Join us as we convene thought leaders from diverse fields—service design, user experience, interaction design, and product management—to delve into the nuances of the craft. Our engaging discussions aim to illuminate what it truly means to adopt and excel in a human-centric design approach. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to the field, "This is HCD" offers valuable perspectives to enhance your understanding and application of human-centered design principles. Tune in to explore how we can collectively make a meaningful impact on the world around us through intentional and thoughtful design.
Become a Premium podcast subscriber and help support our mission.
Join. Connect. Learn. Get involved and join the #1 Design Community for ethically conscious Designers. Our goal is to create a private LinkedIn for Human Centered Designers.

    The Journey of Lilli Graf

    The Journey of Lilli Graf

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers
    Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers
    We have the pleasure of hosting Elisabeth Graf, affectionally known as Lilli. We connected a number of months ago on LinkedIn and I was so impressed by Lilli’s awesome background and devotion to applying design to enable a greater sense of resilience for both businesses and the planet.
    Hailing from the beautiful area of Verona in Italy, somewhere I’ve never been but want to go, Lilli is truly on a mission to scale her knowledge, to maximize her impact, not only in her locale of Verona, but also globally through her dedicated community IMMA Collective, which we talk about in greater detail.
    Lilli, as you will probably get to see, is a wonderful human being and a really truly genuine example of what I refer to as a change maker. She’s taken personal and professional risks to really help enable change and I believe it is 100% worth connecting with her through her website or LinkedIn.
    Without further ado, let's dive into Lilli's incredible journey and learn more about her inspiring work.

    linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-lilli-graf

    https://www.immacollective.com/


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    • 48 min
    Conversations with Kasper Bjørkskov: From Architect to Activist

    Conversations with Kasper Bjørkskov: From Architect to Activist

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers CIRCLE - A Community for Ethically Conscious Designers & Changemakers
    Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: Coaching & Mentoring for Innovators & Change-Makers with Gerry Scullion
    In this episode, I speak with Kasper Bjørkskov. A former architect and activist based in Copenhagen. We speak openly about his role within the existing systems in society, and why he switched from architecture to activist. What triggered this? And also, what is he striving to achieve?
    He’s extremely passionate about raising awareness of what we do as a collective and what we need to do more of within the complex systems of impact around climate change, sustainability, and initiating more and more communities to change for the better.
    He’s a truly wonderful guest, you’re going to love this one.
    linkedin.com/in/kasper-benjamin-reimer-bjørkskov-660a4899

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    • 43 min
    Think in 4D with Erica Heinz

    Think in 4D with Erica Heinz

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers
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    Welcome to another episode of This Is HCD. In this episode, I speak with Erica Heinz, author of Think in 4D, a brand new book aimed at user experience designers.
    It's absolutely beautifully designed, designed by themselves. And we discussed the industry of user experience or UX in detail, where she feels this book helps cover some of the voids due to the perceived shift in the user experience industry over the last decade. Now, Erica has been working with many amazing organizations and brings an awesome and much needed fresh perspective to user experience.
    She's truly wonderful. I loved speaking with her. Let's jump straight in.

    linkedin.com/in/ericaheinz

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    • 32 min
    Music Thinking and Jam Cards with Christof Zürn

    Music Thinking and Jam Cards with Christof Zürn

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers
    Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers
    Welcome back to the show to our old friend Christof Zürn. I actually had the pleasure of meeting this wonderful human being in person in Amsterdam earlier this month. Christof appeared on the podcast a number of years ago but since then has produced his book "The Power of Music Thinking”, published by BIS Publishers.
    In this episode, we speak more about the Jam Cards, which I'll link below. It’s an interactive and meaningful way to collaborate more effectively with yourself or with teams. We demo these Jam Cards in the episode, so you can listen to it or follow along on YouTube.
    Christof is absolutely awesome and I’m excited to share this one with you.


    https://musicthinking.com/jam-cards/ 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/creativecompanion/

    https://www.linkedin.com/company/music-thinking/

    youtube.com/@Musicthinking


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    • 45 min
    Insights from Elliott Nelson

    Insights from Elliott Nelson

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers
    Fast-track your career with our 12-week training programme: https://www.thisishcd.com/coaching-mentoring-for-innovators-change-makers
    Today on the podcast, I'm delighted to welcome Elliott Nelson, Chief HX Officer, which is Human Experience Officer at HXWize in the US. Now we connected through my good friend and our good friend, Marc Stickdorn in 2023, and had great conversations about the complicated processes within the world of HR and employee experience. So this episode is really for anyone who has been wondering about using service design methods. For employee experience.
    Elliott is truly awesome. He was a fantastic guest. I know you're going to find it really interesting to listen to him. I know you're going to love this episode. So let's jump straight in.

    linkedin.com/in/elliott-nelson-392343

    https://www.hxwize.com/


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    • 48 min
    Exploring Liminal Thinking with Mike Parker

    Exploring Liminal Thinking with Mike Parker

    NEWS: We have just launched our new community ‘CIRCLE’ - A Private Community for Ethically Conscious Designers and Changemakers / https://www.thisishcd.com/landing/circle-a-community-for-ethically-conscious-designers-changemakers
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    Welcome to another episode of This is HCD. Several months ago, I started speaking with today's guest, Mike Parker, owner and founder of Liminal Coaching in Wales in the UK. I'd heard Mike's name mentioned several times over the years online, especially after reading the brilliant book by Dave Gray called Liminal Thinking several years ago.
    Now that book for me was transformative. Both personally and professionally, and over the years, as I explored ways and means to extend my level of knowledge in this space, I started to read more and more about the benefits of liminality to changemakers. So what exactly is liminality? And more to the point, what is liminal thinking?
    If you haven't read that book, I really encourage you to pick it up. It's a brilliant book and a brilliant read. Now, liminal thinking is a concept, an approach to problem solving and understanding. The world that deals with the power of the thresholds of perception and belief. Now, the term liminal comes from the Latin word limen, meaning threshold.
    And in a broader sense, liminality refers to a state of transition, the in between phase of a process of change, where you are on the threshold between one state and another. Some of Mike's work is really fascinating and involves holding space for yourself just to drift. So for anyone who knows me personally, they'd be familiar with the constant drive or chaos that surrounds my own life and is in constant conflict with this idea of just holding space.
    But I truly love it and I love practicing it. I might not be good at it. But I know I want to get better at it, but that's probably a really nice way of framing it. So this episode is going to be of interest to me, or of interest to you if you're like me in that sense, always running close to empty and always striving for perfection and really ultimately being critically hard on yourself from time to time.
    So in this episode we tackle some of those pieces and go deeper into Mike's practices. Let's get stuck in.
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    • 45 min

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RK-Balto ,

Organisational Toxicity

HCD is such an amazing resource for solo practitioners of human centred interaction design working remotely (before it was cool and necessary) in rural communities. Working in small data, advocating for a circular economy and working where the gaps actually are in society (the 20%) not according to a singular narrative generated by government data can be a tough. Organisational toxicity is something I have personal experience of having worked in publishing for years and as an independent HCI practitioner with local government. The podcasts are so relatable to either personal experience, community or enterprise it’s informative, well researched and very human. Well done to Gerry and team and thank you, Rachel

LaurenceV ,

Eclectically Brilliant

I love the This is HCD podcast for the range of perspectives you get from the different guests on the show. It’s truly mind-expanding and thought provoking. Any new or old designers will get a lot out of listening.

Creativedynamix ,

HCD leading from the edge

Brilliant podcast about human centred design.
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