Guest: Aoife O'Friel (aoifeofriel.wixsite.com/portfolio)Hosts: Jenine Lynch [co-host]Liana Schley [co-host]Allen Higgins [co-host]-----Welcome to the Game Chat series on Design Talk.Aoife O’Friel is a writer and narrative designer, from Waterford, now based in Sweden and working for Ubisoft.We hope to cover a few areas.The role of the writer/designer, getting into the video game industry, and the demands of working on game projects.●Narrative design is crucial in game design but perhaps not widely understood. What does a day in the office look like?●You have talked about "Iteration/emergent narratives/planning for interactivity"●Can you share some thoughts on "the quest/writing collaborative approach of working with the other moving parts of game design - which tends to mean rolling with constant change!""●How does narrative feed into and from the game development dynamic, which is, these days, like most software projects, an iterative ‘agile’ process.●Q: How deep does Narrative get into and drive the game project?●Q: Is there value in developing narrative before development? Should they unfold in tandem? ●Q: What problems or opportunities arise if narrative is added towards the end of a project?●Q: When is narrative needed as opposed to decorative? Although some players might view it as incidental, narrative and backstory is offered for characters and the gameworld for many sports and combat games.●Q: Does dialogue define a narrative driven game? JRPGs for example often deliver a lot of cut-scene and dialogue.●Q: Does the game engine limit/drive narrative potential? Good examples?●Q: What is the relationship between narrative and game mechanics? ●Q: Does using the same engine for different games limit the scope of the story-telling?●Q: Can narrative create a real difference between games built on the same platform, perhaps reimagining the gameplay (would Niantic's Ingress and Pokemon Go be examples)? There might be examples of this when players make mods e.g. from Skyrim's Mods community?So, on that note…We would like to thank you for making time in your busy schedule to talk to us today.And for sharing your knowledge and insights into the art of crafting narrative for game design.AcknowledgementsMusic (CC-BY-NC-SA license) Title: King of the Universe (single version)Artist: Ape RisingSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0jmmWXqmk8 License: CC-BY-NC-SA license Cover Art (CC-BY-NC-SA license)Title: “Game Chat ”Artist: “Liana Schley ”Source: AoifeOFriel_PodcastGuest_2021_Thumbnail Art.jpgLicense: “CC BY-NC-SA”The `Design Talk (dot IE)’ podcasts are released under the “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version 4.0 creative commons license aka CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you are entering a verbal agreement giving permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast available from Acast and wherever people get their podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talking about Partners Operations Governance - Podcast 30-3-2021 – 10amGuest:John Sheahan, Strategic Global Vendor Director, Microsoft Operations – Global BPOStudent Podcast Team:Angella Kizito [co-host]Jack Ridgway [team member]Karthik Ethirajulu [team member]Eunyoung Choi [team member]Huiqun Peng [team member]Notes: Prahalad & Hamel “The core competence of the corporation”, The OPBOK - ISO 37500:2014 - Guidance on outsourcing (link)Business Continuity Planning (BCP)AcknowledgementsMusic (CC-BY license), by Ivan Sipek - used with permissionCover Art created by Huiqun Peng Audio editing by Jack Ridgway Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

-----Interview with Lizzy McComish, GSDM @ Microsoft -----Welcome to the Design Talk podcast. We are interested in exploring the practical challenges of learning and growing the "know who, know where, know why, know what, know how, know about" in organisations. Particularly the kinds of practices or behaviours we will need to interact with and manage global partners, and ultimately to be a global partner.We are thrilled to be joined today by Lizzy McComish. Lizzy is a Global Service Delivery Manager at Microsoft.What does the GSDM role cover?Talk about the soft skills that are needed to succeed in this line of work?On vendor selection, what types of services are suited to outsourcing?Key factors when making an outsourcing decision?Does culture play a role? If you walked into a new client-side engagement, and you looked at the existing supply management team. Have you ever said “oh, that's great, I can see this is run well”?What are the features of a well-run team?What practices do you expect to see?You have said “If i'm not successful, they [vendor] aren’t successful” Could you talk a little more about that idea and your role as the in-between client and the vendor?When it comes to making the vendors feel as part of Microsoft, how does that actually work in practice?Managing Knowledge & Training: if on a vendor side, if a staff member was absent for an extended period and if it led to significant issues...How do you approach training when it comes to your vendors?Is shadowing a key practice? How does it work, what benefits do you find? Is the link between metrics and relationships negative or can they reinforce productively?Any tips on managing the vendor relationship, particularly transitioning between an incoming and an outgoing vendor?Closing-----------------------------------Acknowledgements, LicenseMusicTitle: “’Intro 1 Delay Classic”Artist: “Ivan Šipek”Source: personal copyLicense: “CC BY” Cover Art Title: “Cover Art”Artist: “Anastasia Kucerovska”Source: personal copy & image clip art via Canva (canva.com)License: “CC BY”The `Design Talk (dot IE)’ podcasts are released under the “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version 4.0 creative commons license aka CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you are entering a verbal agreement giving permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast available from Acast and wherever people get their podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guests: Ciaran Treanor and Cormac Ó Foghlú Hosts: Rujuta Sandeep Kulkarni and Allen Higgins -----OPENING -----[Rujuta]Welcome to the Design Talk podcast.We are joined today by Ciaran Treanor, Sonalake’s CTOand Cormac Ó Foghlú, VP Operations at Sonalake.First, could I ask you both, to tell us a little about yourselves, before we talk about Sonalake?Some general questions we might ask if needed to keep the conversation going:1.         Can you brief us more about Sonalake?2.         Is it difficult to bring contractors into the fold?3.         What is the level of involvement you expect clients to have over the lifetime of the project?4.         So initial start versus now in the context of trust how as Sonalake and the business development approach changed?5.         There is porosity in the working from home environment. The organizations are very poros. Do you think this creates a security threat? Does this create a risk for client and data confidentiality?6.         Do you think remote working is the future especially when Ireland is looking to make “Work from home” a permanent option legally?-----CLOSING-----[Rujuta]So, on that note…Ciaran and Cormac, we would like to thank you for making time in your busy schedules to talk to us today.And for giving us an inside view of client engagement models, software development and your perspective on services as a team sport. Acknowledgements:Music by Ivan Spiek (with Permission)Cover Art created by Rujuta Kulkarni and Allen Higgins. Clipart images and design elements using Canva https://www.canva.com/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Design Talk podcast. Today's team is: Fooz Alsubaie, Aoife Cooper, Viet Ho, Ivan Spiek and Maurice FarnanOur guest for today is Henric Malm.And our theme is Sourcing Models and Decision Making - making your mind up, how vendors make decisions to help clients to outsource?Questions -How do client/vendor relationships differ across different engagements? What works, what doesn’t work?- Talking about starting a new engagement with a client. - How can vendors maintain their value proposition and differentiate themselves from competitors?-Is every client/vendor arrangement unique? Why do you think that is?-Trust and risk are major issues for a client, what is your strategy for winning their trust and easing their anxieties?-Do your solutions always go as planned? What complexities or obstacles do you regularly encounter? How do you overcome them-Does distance matter anymore?-Last question: What is the opportunity cost for the client if they don’t go for your service? Pitch it to me. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why Ireland for inbound tech investment?Guest: Rory Mullen, IDAUCD Host team:Allen Higgins [host interview]Jeroen van der Hoeven [host interview]Saga BengtssonMin YangGautam VenkataramanJohn ToribioBackground music: Music by HoobeZa (no Copyright/License): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nMNPQ4Vf0. Cover Art created by John Toribio, Copyright image clip art via Canva (https://www.canva.com/). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This talk was recorded on November 4th 2020.In this episode I talk with Dermot Casey about the growth of digital start-ups in Ireland and supporting that crucial period of early stage business development.At the time of recording Dermot had been working for the previous five years as a venture leader at the NDRC, Ireland’s National Digital Research Centre’s accelerator programme for digital start-ups. He has since co-established Resolve Partners, a venture consulting partnership, and then moved on to become the CEO for IRDG, a non-profit, business-led Innovation Network for member companies and colleges.-----OPENING -----Q: What does a venture leader’s working day look like?Q: How does the NDRC support entrepreneurs and start-ups?Q: Do start-ups use dev jams and design sprints to punctuate the business development cycle or  do they end up doing rapid prototyping and development all the time?Q: Does Ireland offer any unique advantages for start-ups? Is this a good time to start a digital savvy  business?Q: How do we deal with failure? How do we resolve that conflict between the desire for success and the almost inevitability of failure?Mentions:Des Traynor from Intercom reflecting on the transitions you make when scaling from being a start-up to being a company.https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/lessons-learned-from-scaling-a-team/Eamon Leonard, one of Ireland's most experienced tech founders:https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/eamon-leonard-named-irelands-net-visionary-2012IxDA Dublinhttp://ixda.ieSamuel Beckett quote “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Web Summit: Founded in 2009, by Paddy Cosgrave, David Kelly and Daire Hickey, Web Summit was originally held in Dublin, Ireland, until 2016, when it moved to Lisbon.https://websummit.comThe Gini index for Irelandhttps://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=IEGini index (World Bank estimate – smaller may be read as less inequality. The Gini index is a measure of statistical dispersion of income inequality or wealth inequality within a nation or any other group of people. The measure was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini)Thirty-Two Words for Fieldhttp://manchan.com/32-words-for-fieldAcknowledgementsMusic Title: “It was just cold”Artist: Andrew CodemanSource: https://bit.ly/2Msarcj​License: “CC BY 4.0”Cover Art Title: Adapted from “After weeks of frozen numbness, Roger and Bon sensed the tentative beginnings of a creative thaw.”Artist: “Caroline (The hills are alive*)” *https://www.flickr.com/photos/hills_alive/Source: “https://flic.kr/p/8AwtWe”[Composite image, multiple sources. See credits]License: “CC BY 4.0”The `Design Talk (dot IE)’ podcasts are released under the “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike version 4.0 creative commons license aka CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina LowePodcast -15/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 23 2021)Title: 0055- 14 - Student Perspective and Access to DiagnosisSubtitle: With Catriona NichollsLink: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieSeason: 2Episode: 0055 For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieCredits and LicenseMusic Title: Modern Jazz Samba Artist: Kevin MacLeodSource: ISRC USUAN1100153 - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4063-modern-jazz-sambaLicense: Simplified Filmmusic.io Standard License - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-licenseCover Art Title: Glowing head in profile with high contrast speech bubble title and guest names.Artist: AgencyX and Allen HigginsSource: Cross-PodLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseBlind Spot (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina LowePodcast -14/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 22 2021)Title: 0054- 13 - Assistance Dogs for Neurodiverse Children and TeenagersSubtitle: With Eimear KenneallyLink: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieSeason: 2Episode: 0054 For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieCredits and LicenseMusic Title: Modern Jazz Samba Artist: Kevin MacLeodSource: ISRC USUAN1100153 - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4063-modern-jazz-sambaLicense: Simplified Filmmusic.io Standard License - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-licenseCover Art Title: Glowing head in profile with high contrast speech bubble title and guest names.Artist: AgencyX and Allen HigginsSource: Cross-PodLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseBlind Spot (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show-notes for cross-pod for The Blind Spot with Tina LowePodcast -14/Mar/2022 (publish sequence Jan 21 2021)Title: 0053- 12 - Actor and Autism ActivistSubtitle: With Eleanor WalshLink: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieSeason: 2Episode: 0053 For more information see “The Blind Spot” on Spotify for notes and descriptions of episodes. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blindspot-ieCredits and LicenseMusic Title: Modern Jazz Samba Artist: Kevin MacLeodSource: ISRC USUAN1100153 - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4063-modern-jazz-sambaLicense: Simplified Filmmusic.io Standard License - https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/standard-licenseCover Art Title: Glowing head in profile with high contrast speech bubble title and guest names.Artist: AgencyX and Allen HigginsSource: Cross-PodLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseBlind Spot (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.