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This is HCD: The Podcast for Human-Centered Design EnthusiastsWelcome to This is HCD, the premier podcast for human-centered design, with over 1 million downloads and hosted by Gerry Scullion.Our mission is to empower designers, changemakers, and innovators to craft a more inclusive and thoughtful future. Each episode brings you engaging conversations with leading voices across service design, UX, interaction design, product management, and more. Together, we explore the nuances of what it means to excel in human-centered design, offering insights, skills, and perspectives to elevate your practice.Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just beginning your journey, This is HCD is your destination for actionable ideas and inspiration to drive meaningful change through intentional design.Join our growing, ethically conscious design community—connect, learn, and get involved. Together, we’re building a private LinkedIn-style network for human-centered designers ready to make an impact.Tune in, get inspired, and shape the future with This is HCD!
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Feb 2, 2021 • 39min
Eriol Fox 'Diversity in Design'
Today on the show, we have Eriol Fox, someone I recently connected not on Twitter, but within the This is HCD Slack channel. Eriol describes themselves as a human rights centred and humanitarian designer and is one of those designers that makes many of us quite enviable. They can work with organisations in pretty much any area of Design from workshop facilitation through to UX Research, prototyping - they are pretty much an all-rounder!
But we speak about Diversity in Design, but not in a superficial way. We try and get a little deeper into areas around speaking up and feeling empowered to do so inside organisations. I loved speaking with Eriol - they are a wonderful person and am so excited to share this conversation with you…
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eriolfox/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://erioldoesdesign.com/about/
https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign
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Jan 30, 2021 • 23min
'When two tribes go to war' with Nick Coster & Gerry Scullion
Featuring Nick Coster, trainer at This is Doing and Gerry Scullion, CEO of This is Doing.
In this episode, Nick and Gerry discuss the FESTIVAL BONUS session 'Product Management is not a 4 letter word' (recorded with Adrienne Tan) and also cover where potential tension between Product Management and Design may originate from, dud detection skills, and where the biggest costs lie when developing new products and services.
To watch the BONUS session, please log into the This is Doing Private Network.

Jan 20, 2021 • 30min
Kataraina Davis 'Designing with Māori knowledge'
In this episode, we hear about Kataraina's passion for ensuring a culturally responsive way of being and working, particularly for the Indigenous people of New Zealand – Ngai Māori. And how she combines design thinking methodologies with Māori knowledge to provide leadership and direction to issues facing Māori.
https://www.tekaa.co.nz/
@davis_kataraina (Twitter) https://www.twitter.com/davis_kataraina
https://twitter.com/melrayment
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Jan 14, 2021 • 38min
Richard Gahagan 'Getting organisational culture right when hiring or being hired'
Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to the first official episode of The Culture Cast podcast, I am your host for this episode, Gareth Burton. In this episode, I will speak with Richard Gahagan, about all things organisational culture.
Richard can be found on twitter @RichardGahagan or LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/richardgahagan
Gareth can be reached on twitter @BurtonGaz, email gareth@honeybadgercan.com or check out www.honeybadgerclan.com
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Dec 23, 2020 • 34min
Joanna Peel 'My journey from full-time employment to a Masters course, to my first UX role'
Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Getting Started in Design, I am your host Gerry Scullion, service designer and educator and founder of This is HCD Network and CEO of This is Doing.
This podcast is focussed on shining a light on the tricky stages between education and employment and also covers moving careers into Design. We realise it’s not a simple career to break into, and I myself can totally relate to this, and often reflect back on the time (a long time ago when I struggled for a few years to catch a break).
Hopefully, this podcast goes some way towards helping you land your job in your chosen area of Design.
Today on the show we have Joanna Peel, a recent graduate in the area of interaction design in Ireland. We speak about the process that Joanna recently went through post leaving her masters, what she found to be helpful and how she managed to land not one, but two jobs - which is no mean feat in the current world that we find ourselves in.
Let’s jump into the episode.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joannapeel/?locale=en_US
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Dec 23, 2020 • 34min
Dr. Lucretia Berry 'Many Hues. One Humanity.'
Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers, content designers and much more.
Today on the show, we have Dr Lucretia Berry, Co-Founder of Brownicity, an organisation based in the US that is dedicated to advocacy and education and support for racial healing and antiracism.
I absolutely adored their hero statement on their website when I first saw it, it says ‘many hues, one humanity’ so was extremely excited to finally get to speak with Lucretia. We speak about racism in-depth, where it comes from, what privilege looks like, and also discuss why African American children are 5 x more likely to drown in US swimming pools. A fact that blows my mind.
Lucretia was one of my favourite guests on This is HCD, and special thanks to Pinar Guvenc, who was on the show recently who connected us to each other.
It’s a big topic, so let’s get into it...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucretia-berry-b766005b/
https://www.instagram.com/lucretiaberry/?hl=en
https://brownicity.com/
Learn with Brownicty - https://brownicity.com/learn/
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Dec 19, 2020 • 28min
Laura Kalbag 'Privacy & Accessibility for Everyone'
Did you know, we launched the Doing Design Festival on January 29 2021?
Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers and much more.
Today on the show, we have Laura Kalbag, a wonderful Designer and co-founder of Small Technology Foundation, an organisation focussed on building a more rights-respecting web. They’ve produced some really great things, one of the tools that I use from them is a privacy tool called Better (check it out)
Anyway - we speak lots of different things in this podcast, and cover topics related to accessibility and it’s an interconnectedness with Privacy - I thoroughly loved speaking with Laura, and have links to all of their websites and initiatives, including Laura’s book called Accessibility for Everyone by A Book Apart listed below. If you like Laura's work, please support Small Technology Foundarion's work by donating.
Let’s get into it.
Laura's website / https://laurakalbag.com/
Small Technology Foundation / https://small-tech.org/
Support & fund STF / https://small-tech.org/fund-us/
Buy Laura's book / https://abookapart.com/products/accessibility-for-everyone

Dec 12, 2020 • 37min
Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy'
Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable. Beth Stensen, their CEO, talks to Gerry McGovern about how Netlife is on a new journey which focuses on the Earth Experience. It’s exciting and challenging times. Digital can often accelerate very bad and wasteful human behaviours. Designing digital for Earth Experience is a key challenge and opportunity.
Buy the book by Gerry McGovern - https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
Learn more about Netlife and Beth - https://www.netlife.com/folka/beth-stensen
Upcoming online live classes with Gerry McGovern - https://www.thisisdoing.com/team/gerry-mcgovern
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Dec 3, 2020 • 1min
*New podcast* Introducing 'Culture Cast'
We are so excited to announce Culture Cast as the latest podcast to join the This is HCD family. Hosted by Vimla Appadoo, Gareth Burton and Tina Connelly from Honeybadger in the UK!

Nov 25, 2020 • 42min
Emma Jones 'Project F - Working to correct the gender imbalance in the tech industry'
Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live online design and innovation classes, providing training for service designers, design researchers, product managers, user experience designers and much more.Today on the show we have Emma Jones from Sydney. Emma is a champion of Diversity in Design and Tech and Founder and CEO of Project F - an organisation that works with other organisations to help them improve their diversity internally. Did you know that 56% of women quit working in the tech industry - a statistic that is DOUBLE the rate of men. We speak at length about this in this episode.
https://www.projectf.com.au/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/msjonesinsydney/
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