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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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Oct 1, 2019 • 32min
Talking Shop #002
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Talking Shop is a new podcast by The HCD Network, that's focussed on helping shine a light on areas within the community - to help utilise our amazing community!
In this episode, Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine chat about the dates for the conference we are running in 2020 in Dublin, as well as announcing the Conference Board for the conference. Andy tells us about his current reading, and we have voice mails from Sarah Drummond, Jen Thompson from UX Scotland, and Audree Fletcher.
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http://www.audreefletcher.co.uk/book/adaysnotenough-the-book
https://dotifest.com/
https://uxscotland.net/2019/ (You can connect with Jen on our Slack channel)
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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

Sep 24, 2019 • 32min
Dana Chisnell 'Design for all: Using Design to improve outcomes between the US Government and its citizens'
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Hello, welcome to Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland.
In this episode, I caught up with the wonderful, the one and only, Dana Chisnell. Now, we met a number of years ago when I was speaking at UX Scotland and had a great conversation at that time about design in government. I’m delighted today to continue that conversation on the show. We also speak about her time working on a tour of duty type of project for two years within the Obama administration, designing for comprehension and also, get some more sage advice from Dana about the early-stage design activities to do within an organisation of low design maturity.
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Centre of Civic Design
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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

Sep 12, 2019 • 25min
Aiden McGale 'Advice on landing your first design job'
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On the show today, we have Aiden McGale, one of Ireland’s leading Design talent recruiters, and founder of DesignTalent.ie - a job board that connects talent directly to businesses. He’s doing things a little bit differently, and is connecting Design Leaders directly with emerging talent through his portfolio review series in Dublin, something that is picking up speed. We speak about the chasm between education and the real world, and how to connect directly with businesses. We speak about attitudes, and also the question I get asked a lot “should I take just any job?”
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DesignTalent.ie - Irelands Design Job Board
Aiden McGale on Twitter
Aiden McGale on LinkedIn
www.weloveaffinity.com
https://www.instagram.com/designtalent.ie/
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Other podcasts on This is HCD
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 (coming soon)

Sep 3, 2019 • 35min
Kim Goodwin 'Decision Systems and their role in enabling human centeredness to occur within organisations'
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Hello, welcome to Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland. I caught up with one of my favourite authors and design researchers recently, Kim Goodwin. Many of you will be familiar with her work, but for those of you who are not, Kim has written some fantastic articles and wrote the design design staple: How to Create Human-Centred Products and Services. A book that if you haven’t picked a copy up of, it’s still really relevant today, ten years later. We discussed the world of extending design systems within organisations, to decision systems to help steer the organisations towards more human-centredness.
Buy the book 'How to create human-centered products and services'
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Watch Kims talk at ILA18
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Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
EthnoPod with Dr John Curran and Jay Hasbrouck
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion (coming soon)
Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion

Aug 22, 2019 • 39min
Ariel Waldman 'Hacking Science for Collaboration'
Hello, and welcome to Power of Ten. A podcast about design operating at many levels, from thoughtful detail, through to organisational transformation, to the changes in society and the world. My name is Andy Polaine, a designer, educator, and writer, currently group director of client evolution at Fjord. My guest today is Ariel Waldman. Ariel makes massively multiplayer science, creating an unusual collaboration that infuses serendipity into science and space exploration.
Show LinksAriel Waldman on Twitter: @arielwaldmanAriel’s website: https://arielwaldman.comAriel’s YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/arielwaldmanAriel’s Patreon site: https://www.patreon.com/arielwaldmanSpaceHack.org: https://spacehack.orgScience Hack Day: http://sciencehackday.orgNASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html
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Thanks again Kai at Offscreen Magazine. One of our favourite design magazines!
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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
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Aug 20, 2019 • 20min
Talking Shop - The HCD Network Community Updates
Talking Shop is a new podcast by The HCD Network, that's focussed on helping shine a light on areas within the community - to help utilise our amazing community!
In this episode, Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine chat about new and exciting updates on our podcasts, as well as sharing some big news for 2020!
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Thanks to Kai at Offscreen Magazine. One of our favourite design magazines!
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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
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Jul 31, 2019 • 30min
Eva PenzeyMoog 'Designing against domestic violence'
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Eva Penzeymoog is joining me on the show today. Eva is a lead designer for Eight-Light and is based in the windy city, Chicago. One of my favourite cities. We connected recently over Twitter after I became aware of her work that’s related to the interconnected relationships between smart devices and domestic violence. Now, we go into the contextual examples of how these so-called smart devices can be used to evoke various types of traumas. We speak openly about researching in and around people with trauma and how to protect yourself if you’re a designer and a researcher. Something that is a topic that is very close to my heart and something that I’ve actually spoken about publicly in the past.
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Jul 24, 2019 • 43min
Gretchen Anderson - 'Mastering Collaboration'
Welcome to Power of Ten, a podcast about design operating at many levels, from thoughtful detail through organisational transformation, to the changes in society and the world.
This episode's guest is Gretchen Anderson.Gretchen consults with clients to inform their product strategy and improve team collaboration skills. She co-authored the book: Pair Design, with Chris Noessel and in this episode we talk about her latest book: Mastering Collaboration, the need for collaboration and cover many pitfalls and tips.
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Show Notes
Andy is on Twitter as @apolaine and Polaine.com
Gretchen is on Twitter as @gretared and her consultancy is at gretchenanderson.com
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Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion
ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
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Jul 16, 2019 • 24min
Derek Horn 'Undesigned world'
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and in this episode, I’m speaking to Derek Horn, a designer at Bedwood and Co., a New York-based branding agency focused on design, strategy, and innovation. He’s also a volunteer director at Out for Undergrad, a non-profit that helps LGBTQ undergraduate students reach their full potential.
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Jul 3, 2019 • 27min
Phil Laufenberg 'Unpicking Henry Ford’s ‘A faster horse’ quote'
Adrienne: Hello, and welcome to ProdPod. We’re a part of This is HCD. We’re bringing all human-centred practitioners real and honest conversations about product management. My name is Adrienne Tan and I’m the co-founder of Brainmates.
Today, I’m here with Phil Laufenberg, he’s the CEO at Practera, an education software company in Sydney, Australia.
We’re discussing a quote that has been touted around in the product management circles for as long as I’ve been a product manager. That, my friends, is a really long time, it’s close to 20 years. The quote is by Henry Ford, I’m sure most of you would have heard this quote before, it says, “If I’ve asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” Now, there’s so much that we can talk about that, so let’s get started.
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ProdPod with Adrienne Tan
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