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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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Jan 23, 2020 • 41min
Michael J. Metts & Andy Welfle – 'Writing Is Designing'
Power of Ten is a podcast about design operating at many levels hosted by design consultant, educator, writer, Andy Polaine. In this episode Michael J. Metts and Andy Welfle discuss their new book, Writing Is Designing, and how important words are in making software human-centered and inclusive, requiring just as much thought as the visual design, branding and code.
Power of Ten listeners can get 15% off Writing is Design by using the discount code HCDWRITING when ordering direct from Rosenfeld Media.
Show Links
Writing is Designing on Rosenfeld Media
Writing is Designing book site
Michael's website
Michael J Metts on Twitter and Instagram
Andy Welfle's website with the best domain name ever
Andy Welfle on Twitter
This is HCD
This is HCD newsletter
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Jan 9, 2020 • 41min
Scott Smith 'How to Future'
Power of Ten is a podcast about design operating at many levels. Zooming out from the thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and onto changes in society in the world hosted by designer, writer and educator, Andy Polaine.
What better way to start the new year but with a look into the future? Our guest in this episode is Scott Smith, founder and managing partner of Changeist discusses his work as a futurist, guiding large organisations towards better futures by blending foresight, narrative design, and strategic thinking.
Show Links
Scott Smith on Twitter
Scott Smith on Medium
Changeist
Pre-order Scott's book, How to Future
Paleo Future
The Limits to Growth by Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows

Jan 7, 2020 • 58min
Genevieve Bell 'Anthropology, cybernetics, and establishing a new branch of engineering at ANU'
Genevieve Bell is a distinguished professor at the Australian National University and the Director of the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance (3A) Institute. She is also a Vice President and Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. After completing her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University, she joined Intel in 1998 and went on to establish Intel’s first User Experience R&D Lab, and co-founded its first Strategy Office, where she ‘spent her life in the future, returning to the present on the weekends’. In 2017 she returned to her home country of Australia to establish the 3A institute examining the human impact of AI at scale. She continues to support the Intel senior leadership group whilst creating a new branch of engineering at the ANU.
Genevieve on Twitter
Genevieve on LinkedIn
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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

Dec 20, 2019 • 54min
Talking Shop #004 - Christmas Special
What happens when four This is HCD hosts who love the sounds of their own voices get together? A one-hour Talking Shop Christmas Special, that's what!
Gerry Scullion, Andy Polaine, Adrienne Tan and John Curran reflect on the year of podcasts on the This is HCD network, their plans for 2020 and, of course, Andy's book corner for one and all. Except everyone else gets their book titles wrong. Happy Holidays from the This is HCD crew!
Books
What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
How to Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan
Designing With and Within Public Organizationsb by André Schaminée
Ends by Joe Macleod
Just Enough Research by Erica Hall
This is HCD
Design Politics Conference in Dublin
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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Dec 18, 2019 • 44min
Ewan McIntosh 'Creating the Space for Learning'
Welcome to Power of Ten, a podcast about design operating at many levels, hosted by designer, educator, and writer, Andy Polaine. In this episode Ewan McIntosh, founder and CEO of NoTosh, shares his experience of designing and creating spaces to enhance learning.
NoTosh
NoTosh on Medium
Ewan McIntosh on Twitter
NoTosh on Twitter
NoTosh on Instagram
This is HCD

Dec 16, 2019 • 34min
Robert Morais 'The Value of Business Anthropology'
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Hi, and welcome to the Decoding Culture Podcast on This is HCD. The podcast focuses on the importance that culture plays in all areas of business and society, form how it shapes organisations to how it influences consumer experience, design, and larger societal trends. My name is John Curran and I’m your host. I’m a business anthropologist, executive coach, and CEO of JC and Associates, which is a consultancy that explores how culture shaped organisations and consumer behaviour. For this episode, I want to start with a question, why are companies and brands turning to business anthropology to understand their consumers and organisations? To answer this and to discuss the value of business anthropology in general, I spoke with Bob Morais, a business anthropologist and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School in New York.
Business Anthropology: https://www.businessanthro.com/
Robert J. Morais https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-j-morais-5a60696/
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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

Dec 3, 2019 • 23min
Talking Shop #003
Conference updates (New dates announced and conference theme)
New podcast guests coming up
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Other podcasts on This is HCD Network
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

Nov 19, 2019 • 21min
Jonathon Colman 'Building world class Design teams'
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Welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design trainer and practitioner based in Dublin City, Ireland. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bringing Design Closer, this podcast is focused on uncovering insights from thought leaders around the world and learnings about bringing design into organisations with a view to helping both practitioners and organisations to become more design-led. In this episode, I caught up with Jonathon Colman, a senior design manager at Intercom here in Ireland. Jon has had a distinguished career and have led teams of content strategists and organisations such as Facebook, but also served, interestingly, as a peace core volunteer in Burkina Faso in West Africa. In this episode, we discuss what it takes to build a stellar design team, and what he’s learned over the years as being important ingredients that led to that success.
https://twitter.com/jcolman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jcolman
https://medium.com/@jcolman
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Other podcasts on This is HCD Network
Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
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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

Nov 12, 2019 • 34min
Theresa Neil 'Designing Digital Therapeutics'
Power of Ten is podcast about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and onto changes in society in the world.
My guest today is Theresa Neil. She’s the author of Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, published by O’Reily and co-author of Designing Web Interfaces, also by O’Reily in 2009. She’s the founder of Guidea, a 20-person UX design consultancy, serving lots of clients you would have heard of, such as Adobe, Bloomberg, eBay, Wholefoods, Johnson and Johnson, and PayPal. She was also named as one of the top designers in technology by Business Insider.
In this episode she talks about the powerful combination of digital therapeutics and contemporary medicine to improve people's lives.
Show Links
Guidea
Guidea on Twitter
Theresa Neil on LinkedIn
Theresa Neil on Twitter
Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
Designing Web Interfaces
This is HCD

Nov 5, 2019 • 55min
Joe Macleod 'Designing Closure Experiences'
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My guest on Power of Ten this episode is Joe Macleod.
Joe has decades of product development experience across digital, physical and service sectors. Previously Head of Design at the award-winning studio Ustwo. He then spent three years on the Closure Experiences project researching, writing and publishing the book "Ends: Why we overlook endings for humans, products, services and digital. And why we shouldn’t." He founded andEnd. A business helping companies end their customer relationships.
Show Links
Joe Macleod on Twitter
Joe's company andEnd.co
Joe's book, Ends: Why we overlook endings for humans, products, services and digital. And why we shouldn’t."
Joe's presentation at UX Australia
Power of Ten on This is HCD where you will also find a transcript to this episode
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Other podcasts on This is HCD Network
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