Voice of Design Having the conversations about design we want to have

We sit down with Max-Beverton Palmer, Head of Tech and Society at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, to discuss his work helping policy-makers address challenges around the world.


Max wanted you all to know that the world has clearly changed a lot since this podcast was recorded, but the political and technology principles discussed haven’t. The Institute Max works for has pivoted to tackling the crisis. You can find more here, and two reports on how we use tech to get through the current crisis:


Digital Policy for a Lockdown: How Tech Can Help Us Adapt to a Radically Altered World


A Price Worth Paying: Tech, Privacy and the Fight Against Covid-19


 


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Max on Twitter

Narratives of Hate: The Spectrum of Far-right Worldviews in the UK

Diversify by June Sarpong

The Bretton Woods Conference, 1944

Sky parental control design


 


 


 


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We get the band back together! Our lawyer Gabe Levine joins us to reminisce about contract negotiations past and discuss the fundamentals of negotiation for designers, or anyone, really.


 


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Gabriel Levine | LinkedIn

Matchstick | Lawyers for creative business

Matchstick | Service Agreement Field Manual

Running From the Law

Welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism | The Guardian


 


 


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Accessibility consultant and trainer Elle Waters joins us to talk about the importance of inclusive design, and why we aren’t there yet.


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Level Access

Universal design - Wikipedia


 


There's also a transcript available here.


 


 


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Yonah Camacho Diamond, union organizer with the Communications Workers of America explains how unions works in the US. We discuss why tech workers might want to consider organizing and the process for doing so.


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Communications Workers of America

CWA District 9

AFL-CIO


 


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John Hanawalt, designer and co-founder of the Queer Design Club, returns to Mule to tell us about his work to celebrate queer contributions to the design industry and foster community, and especially the Queer Design Count.


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John Hanawalt

​​John on Medium

Queer Design Club

​​Stitch Fix

Design Census 2019

The Queer Design Count

Diversity at Dropbox tweet


  


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Kio Stark, author of When Strangers Meet, TED speaker, and person who by her own admission makes strange faces, joins us to talk about the benefits of talking to people you don’t know. We talk about ways to step out of your comfort zone to experience moments of ‘fleeting intimacy’ without coming across as a sociopath. And it turns out this is all connected to research.


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Kio Stark

Kio on Twitter

Why you should talk to strangers | TED Talks

When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You

Glide.org

Kindergarteners are choosing how they're greeted...

BBC interviewee interrupted by his children live on air

Just Enough Research, Second Edition


 


 


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