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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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Sep 19, 2020 • 31min
Summer Howarth 'Co-designing a new architecture of learning'
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Welcome to a new episode of Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment. In this episode, Melanie speaks with Summer Howarth, a learning designer based in Australia.
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Sep 9, 2020 • 38min
Dr Jane Hession & Ronan Healy 'The Power of Play'
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In this episode, I speak with the Founder of How Might We, a Limerick-based design consultancy. We speak about how they are using Lego Serious Play to help enable bigger and more meaningful conversations for their clients.
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Sep 7, 2020 • 37min
Adam Lawrence 'Facilitation Fundamentals'
Adam Lawrence and Gerry Scullion speak facilitation and how Adam is adapting his facilitation skills in light of the global pandemic. We speak about the grid-edge of opportunity that Designers need to be made more aware of - and cover off the 3 key areas that Adam and Renatus focus on in their upcoming course, Facilitation Fundamentals for Co-Creation.
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Sep 4, 2020 • 36min
Kelly Ann McKercher 'Doing co-design for real'
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In this episode of Moments of Change, Melanie Rayment speaks with the wonderful Kelly Ann McKercher.
Kelly Ann McKercher is a co-design coach, facilitator and social researcher living in Australia. They have close to a decade’s experience in leading social innovation and co-design approaches across Australia and New Zealand. Kelly Ann’s work has focused predominately on mental health, domestic and family violence, health systems and young people.
Website / https://www.beyondstickynotes.com
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Sep 3, 2020 • 34min
Doing Design 'Content Design within Services'
Sarah Richards and Gerry Scullion speak about the role of Content Design within Services and speak about the cross over between the disciplines of content design and service design - ahead of their upcoming course.
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Sep 1, 2020 • 1h 8min
Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.'
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Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think deep, broad and wide enough. Jared challenges us to think longer and broader and deeper, to think more connectedly on an earth experience level. We must rise to this impending global threat because if we don’t we condemn future generations to sink in a world we—us, our generation—have wasted.
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Aug 26, 2020 • 47min
Aral Balkan 'Unpacking design’s role in surveillance capitalism (and beyond)'
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Today on the show, we have Aral Balkan - a cyber rights activist, who is on a mission to spread the word about ethical alternatives to surveillance capitalism. A system that the tech giants of Silicon Valley are using and abusing for their gain. We chat about lots of things such as what we can do about this, should we be worried - and what does the future look like as a result of these organisations gaining more and more control of not only the markets but us, as people -
I really enjoyed speaking with Aral and loved the parts where he speaks about Design being treated like ‘Decoration’ in organisations who have abuse centred within their business models. Aral has some really strong points of view around what to do if you work in organisations like this -
Aral's website - https://ar.al/
Ethical Design - https://2017.ind.ie/ethical-design/
Small Technology Foundation - https://small-tech.org/
Small Technology Principles - https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
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Aug 18, 2020 • 37min
Vimla Appadoo 'Diving Deep into the world of Culture Design'
In this episode, I had a really enjoyable conversation with the wonderful Vimla Appadoo, Co-Founder and Chief Cultural Officer for Honey Badger.
In 2019 Vimla was included in Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech, and was a Rising Star by WearetheCity.
Vimla's perspective on design and in particular culture design is something that really resonates with me. We chat about many aspects of leadership and internal workplace culture - we speak about what the role of a cultural designer looks like (on a day to day basis), and learn more about what sort of methods a cultural designer uses in a day to day basis, including how they measure their success.
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Aug 14, 2020 • 1min
Introducing the 'Doing Design' podcast
In this podcast, we will speak about all the behind the scenes things related to actually DOING Design, such as Design Research, Service Design, UX, Content Design, Product Management - you’ll get to hear from all the wonderful trainers and hear about new things that they are working on, and collaborations that in the pipes.

Aug 11, 2020 • 43min
Bas Raijmakers 'How do we take a global perspective on HCD while respecting local differences'
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer!Today on the show, is Bas Raijmakers, co-founder and creative director of Standby, a specialist design research organisation for service innovation, based in London and Amsterdam. Bas is also a co-founder of the Reach Network (I’ll throw a link to this in the show notes). For those of you who don’t know what Reach Network is, it’s a global network of agencies specialising in human-centred design research - a wonderful organisation and definitely worth checking out.
Bas is also a partner of This is Doing, and works alongside myself and a host of other amazing people. Some of the courses that Bas has live centre around life centred design, and we discuss in this episode the local differences of HCD and how people are currently researching, and what are the common problems in this. How can we as practitioners become more culturally inclusive? Bas is a wonderfully deep thinker and has fantastic insights into what we need to do, to not only improve Design (with a capital D) but also how we can make more of a global impact with our work.
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https://www.stby.eu/
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EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
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