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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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Apr 27, 2020 • 24min
The Big Remote – Adam Rotmil
The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.
In this episode, Andy Polaine chats to Adam Rotmil, Interaction Design Craft Lead at Fjord's Washington D.C. Studio, about bringing home the project Kanban, changes in work, life, cooking and salvaging an Erik Spiekermann limited edition print from the rain.
If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.
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Adam on LinkedIn
Marcato hand crank pasta roller
James Bond (double oh) Flour. All purpose is fine but this is better.
Making Artisan Pasta -- great starter cookbook
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Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
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Apr 10, 2020 • 51min
Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
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Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I'm chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet. Every time I see him speak, I'm struck by his calming presence, his brilliant mind and his deep humanity. Jeremy makes websites with Clearleft.
His books include DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, HTML5 for Web Designers, Resilient Web Design, and, most recently, Going Offline. Hailing from Erin's green shores, Jeremy maintains his link with Irish traditional music, running the community site The Session.
He also indulges a darker side of his bouzouki playing in the band, Salter Cane.
You can find out more about Jeremy at adactio.com.
https://dannyvankooten.com/website-carbon-emissions/
http://designingforperformance.com/
https://idlewords.com/2020/03/we_need_a_massive_surveillance_program.htm
Learn more about Gerry McGovern's World Wide Waste book
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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
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
NEW: The Big Remote with Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
NEW: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
NEW: Global Jams Podcast with Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormess
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Apr 8, 2020 • 38min
Christine Hemphill 'Making human-centred design more human'
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In this episode, I chat with the wonderful Christine Hemphill, MD of Open Inclusion in London, UK.
We chat openly about how Design frameworks and methods are failing not only the design community but also the people who end up using these products or services. Christine has a framework that she discusses in this episode that can help the Design community intentionally include inclusivity as part of their way of working.
https://openinclusion.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hemphill-9570672/?originalSubdomain=fr
https://openinclusion.com/open-inclusions-customer-experience-canvas/
Join our live online Coffee Time events every Tuesday and Thursday during the pandemic with a surprise guest each time :-)
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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
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
NEW: The Big Remote with Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
NEW: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
NEW: Global Jams Podcast with Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormess
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Apr 6, 2020 • 33min
Senongo Akpem 'Cross-Cultural Design'
Power of Ten is a podcast about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail, through to organisational transformation, and onto changes in society and the world, hosted by Andy Polaine.
This episode's guest is Senongo Akpem, a designer, illustrator and the founder of Pixel Fable, a collection of interactive Afrofuturist stories and currently Design Director at Constructive, a social impact design agency. Senongo talks about how living in constantly shifting cultural and physical spaces has given him unique insight into the influence of culture on communication and creativity and forms the basis of his book, Cross-Cultural Design, published by A Book Apart.
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Pixel Fable
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Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
The Big Remote with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
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Apr 4, 2020 • 40min
The Big Remote 'Sophie Lovett'
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The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.
In this episode, Gerry Scullion speaks with Sophie Lovett, a mother of two and a home educator based in the UK. We speak about the effects of the pandemic on Sophie's world and gain insight and advice in educating and entertaining a young family.
If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.
This is HCD
Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
Connect with This is HCD
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Apr 1, 2020 • 22min
The Big Remote – Matthew Voshell
The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.
In this episode Matthew Voshell, Head of Experience Design, Client Technology | FSO at EY joins Andy to share his tips and experience about managing a globally distributed team, and how the extroverts are handling the world of remote work.
If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.
Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member
This is HCD
Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
Connect with This is HCD
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Mar 25, 2020 • 32min
The Big Remote – Dr John Curran
The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion.
In this episode Dr John Curran, host of Decoding Culture on This is HCD, joins Andy to talk about the new normal, negotiating with family, being intentional with connecting with friends, and he comes up with a better phrase than social distancing.
If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.
This is HCD
Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
Connect with This is HCD
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Mar 25, 2020 • 2min
Introducing 'World Wide Waste' with Gerry McGovern
We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team, and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste.
How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where reuse is at the core of thinking. One where the Earth Experience is central. Gerry McGovern will talk to designers who are pioneering green digital thinking and methods.

Mar 25, 2020 • 31min
Amy Bucher 'Understanding Behaviour Change Design and how it co-exists and compliments other design disciplines'
In this episode, I chat with the wonderful Amy Bucher, VP of Behavior Change from Mad*Pow in Boston in the United States. We chat about the emerging role of behavior change design and how it intersects with other disciplines like service design and user experience. I'll also cover off my personal unease with behavior change design, and unpack its ethical use - and sometimes its misuse - across industries.
Amy gives fascinating examples of her work in healthcare and how she has used behavior change design to help improve the lives of people using those services. And we discuss how behavior change design practitioners sit within a more traditional design process and discuss the origins of her new book Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change on Rosenfeld Media.
Now the folks over at Rosenfeld Media are amazing supporters of This is HCD and have given our listeners an exclusive 15% discount on Amys book!
So all you have to do is go over to Rosenfeld Media and use the code HCDENGAGED to get the discount.
https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/engaged-designing-for-behavior-change/
https://www.madpow.com/
Amy on Twitter / https://twitter.com/amybphd
Amy on LinkedIn / https://www.linkedin.com/in/amybucher/
This is HCD Network
Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
Connect with This is HCD
Follow This is HCD us on Twitter
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Mar 25, 2020 • 2min
Introducing The Big Remote
We're in the middle of an unprecedented social experiment with so many people working remotely and many entire families staying home. Yet there's so much that still connects us together and that we can learn from. The Big Remote is a podcast of people's remote stories, hosted by Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion on This is HCD.
Maybe this is all new and they're discovering a new lifestyle. Maybe they've been working remotely all this time and now everyone else in their company has joined them, or perhaps their freelance life has turned upside down.
The Big Remote dives into guests' remote work and collaboration tips, remote life hacks, tips on entertaining yourself and your kids, personal stories and more.
If you have a story, get in touch or hit us up on Twitter.
N.B. The first episode will appear in the main This is HCD feed, then the rest will be in The Big Remote's own feed available at all the places you normally get podcasts.
This is HCD
Design Politics Conference site
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion
Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran
Connect with This is HCD
Follow This is HCD us on Twitter
Follow This is HCD on Instagram
Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!)
Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel
Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium