25 episodes
Beginners Guide to Design Thinking Lucy Patterson & Tracy Sharp
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Aimed at all you curious cats who want to find out how to use design thinking to boost your business and improve your lives.Join us - Lucy Patterson and Tracy Sharp - two Northern lasses who support business owners and individuals like you, to use design thinking to positively disrupt the status quo; improving your business performance, whilst also invigorating your love for life.There's no 'but we've aways done it that way' excuses here. We're all about helping you figure out what you want, sharing how you can experiment with ways to get it, supporting you as you get comfortable with failing, showing you how to apply the lessons your failures teach you, then tweaking your approach so you can do it all over again! It's a fun and scientifically backed approach, but sure, we get we're asking you to dig deep. That's why we're here - to share our own expertise, experiences - and failures - so you never feel as though you're on your own.So let us hold your hand as you empower yourself to use design thinking to get creatively closer to your business and life goals - without messing up your sweater with crayons! 😉Once you've finished listening, we have two simple requests for you:
1 - If you enjoy the show, leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice. (If you don't enjoy the show, drop us an email and let us know what you think we could do better.)
2 - Drop us an email, or connect via LinkedIn, and share with us what actions you've taken as a result of any of the episodes. We bloody love an action-taker! 🙂
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Z is for Zeitgeist
Send us a Text Message.In this episodeSupport the Show.You can support us in the following ways: Take a listen, leave a positive review, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and enjoy the array of special guests as we progress from A to Z during season one. Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/ Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/ Web: https://abeginnersguidetodesignthinking.net/If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, please ...
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Y is for Your Business and Life
Send us a Text Message.In this episode weSupport the Show.You can support us in the following ways: Take a listen, leave a positive review, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and enjoy the array of special guests as we progress from A to Z during season one. Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/ Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracychristinasharp/ Web: https://abeginnersguidetodesignthinking.net/If you have any questions, or would like to work with us, plea...
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X Marks the Spot
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we discover whether 'X' really does mark the spot, as we explain more about the 'Define' stage of the design thinking process. Support the Show.You can support us in the following ways: Take a listen, leave a positive review, connect with us on LinkedIn, ask us questions, and enjoy the array of special guests as we progress from A to Z during season one. Lucy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucypattersonflourish/ Tracy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tr...
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W is for Workshops
Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we uncover a few of the reasons why workshops can be innovation and creative goldmines when you're looking to solve a problem, make a decision, or whenever you have a challenge ahead of yourself or your team.We look at how design thinking workshops are actually more likely to produce iterational innovation, than the transformational innovation that we hear about in the media, before explaining the need for good preparations, the limitations of workshops...
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V is for Visualisation
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we're joined by Lara Doherty, Founder of The Motivation Clinic, and Author of The Mighty Book of Motivation.Adept at using the power of visualisation, with a particular interest in the power of vision boards to fuel your achievements and help you reach your goals, Lara explains how she now pays this power forward to others.Visualisation techniques have been used by sports coaches to improve the performance of sports stars very successfully for decad...
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U is for Usability
Send us a Text Message.In this episode we welcome the inimitible Christine Hemphill from Open Inclusion.With a background in design, Christine now specialises in inclusive product design, with a particular interest in age and disability.From retail to banking, healthcare to transport, Christine's knowledge, understanding and desire to disrupt the product design sector for the greater good is admirable.We're all 'users' of products, but due to her dislike of the transactional nature of this wo...