Bringing Design Closer With Gerry Scullion

There's some of you might know the Top Tasks methodology already and even if you do, I'd encourage you to listen to this episode, as I break down the method to better understand the mechanics behind Top Tasks, and also get Gerry's insights into where it works well - as well as looking at the origins of the method. There's so much wisdom in this episode, I just know you'll enjoy it - Gerry McGovern on Twitter Sign up to Gerrys McGoverns amazing newsletter Buy Gerry's books and specifically the new Top Tasks book This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join the This is HCD Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I caught up with a great friend of the podcast, Andy Polaine. Most of you will probably be familiar with Andy's work with Fjord and also as co-author of Service Design - from Insights to implementation on Rosenfeld Media, a book that has become one of the defining service design books over the last number of years. I was hosting Service design Days in Barcelona this year and had lots of fun meeting the European service design community. It was a jam-packed few days for me but managed to capture some great conversations that all followed a similar theme to what myself and John Thackara covered in his episode recently, and that is, we need to consider not only what we produce but how we actually produce it. Andy's keynote was fantastic and had some wonderful metaphors about how we have lost some of the natural cadence and craft through new work please like Agile and Lean. Christmas giveaways  Also before I jump in I want to let you all know I'm working on creating a very very special newsle

Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principal based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland's UX forefathers. Frank mentored me way back in the nineties and shortly after he began working in the usability and accessibility space for Frontend, one of Europe's oldest UX consultancies. A number of years ago when I was living in Sydney, I began to see Frontend winning awards, left right and center, such as at the iXDA awards in America, then again in Lyon and UX Awards and so on, beating some stiff competition to some of the biggest design awards in the design world. Now I wanted to go and dig a little deeper to understand what they were doing internally and how they were doing it and turns out they created an initiative called DesignFix. Links mentioned inside this episode Frontend.com Video: iXDA video of Mymilkman.ie  Download whitepaper 'Design Principles for civil dialogue' Video: The Future vision of

Before I tell you a little bit about this episode, I wanted to congratulate Sarah (and Lou) who got married at the weekend. From everyone at This is HCD, we raise a glass an wish you a lifetime of happiness together! Hello and welcome to another episode of. This is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principle based in Dublin city, Ireland. I recently caught up with our next guest, Sarah. Sarah is a designer and CEO and cereal idea generator. She's co-founded, SNOOK, my police, Mydearest Scotland, our pride and the matter for this work. She was awarded a Google Fellowship for her work in technology and democratic innovation and named as one of Good Magazines 100-extraordinary individuals tackling global issues in a creative way daily. Sarah is a CEO of SNOOK an award-winning global design consultancy based in London and Glasgow. SNOOK on a mission to design a new program that works better for people and this is a perfect segue into what we discussed. We caught up recently in Dublin to ta

Hello and welcome to another episode of 'This is HCD'. My name is Gerry Scullion and I'm a service design principal now based in Dublin, Ireland. In this episode we caught up with the brilliant Patrick Quattlebaum, co-author (alongside Chris Risdon) of the fantastic new Rosenfeld media book 'Orchestrating Experiences'. Patrick is founder of StudioPQ and former managing director of the service design consultancy Adaptive Path before its acquisition, after of which he was the Head of Service Design and Senior Director of Design at Capital One. Patrick on Twitter Buy the book on Rosenfeld Media Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow us on Twitter Follow on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join our Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome to another episode of ‘This is HCD'. My name is Gerry Scullion and I'm a service design principal now based in Dublin, Ireland. Recently I caught up with Sarah Richards in London. Sarah's a founder of Content Design in London, an organisation focused on delivering content designed training courses as well as working with organisations to help build the content design function internally. Sarah previously held the role of head content design within the GDS, the government digital services team for the gov.uk. And in this conversation we actually go back in time to discuss what that was like, working with people who had no idea what content design was and how Sarah worked around that. Also joining in in this conversation was Joris Beets, international service design director for EY Seren in London. Sarah on Twitter Content Design website Buy 'Content Design' the book (Amazon UK) Joris on Twitter This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow us on Twitter Follow on Instagram

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana DesignIn this episode, I caught up with Victor Rodrigues, the chief software architect and user experience advocate for Cochlear, one of Australia's most loved and most successful innovation success stories. For anyone who is unaware, Cochlear produce implantable solutions for the profoundly deaf. And for anyone with their technological finger on the pulse may have seen late last year on all the tech websites a partnership between Apple and Cochlear. This basically allows people with the device to stream audio from their Apple device directly to the Cochlear device. We discussed how this idea came about internally at Cochlear and how does a good idea enter the business conversation internally and what Victor did over a decade ago to get the design buy-in at the board level and what impact this had to the business overall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana DesignIn this episode we caught up with Marc Stickdorn, co-author of ‘This is Service Design Thinking Book’ and most recently the epic and one of the most important design books in yonks, ‘This is Service Design Doing’, a book that has been celebrated in the service design community like it’s the millennium.  Update May 2018 - We have a number of copies of the book to giveaway to people subscribed to our fortnightly newsletter. Thanks to More than Metrics and O'Reilly Media in New York for their support of the podcast. Sign up now  Thanks to theRSA.org for being patrons of the podcast. Links from this episode This is Service Design Doing Book (There's a fantastic free PDF download of Free Methods) This is Service Design Thinking Book Website One of my favourite customer journey mapping tools - Smaply Mobile ethnography tool - Experience Fellow Who is Marc Stickdorn? Follow Marc Stickdorn on Twitter Read the transcript of this episode Learn more about you

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana DesignHello! I'm Gerry Scullion, and in this episode, we have the brilliant Greg Bernarda, who some of you might know of being co-author of the excellent Value Proposition Design book by Strategyser. This book has been adopted by many service designers, product managers and business designers around the world - so it should be familiar to a lot of the listeners today. So, today's topic is an absolutely massive one "most organizations still largely live in the 20th century, in a world where the key currency for success has been ‘exploitation’. But in the 21st century, the name of the game is ‘innovation’. Those are two very different capabilities. Exploitation is about excelling at executing, and scaling products and services in a largely known environment. Innovation is about navigating the unknown, exploring possibilities, and experimenting with new ways of creating value for people with ever-evolving needs." Service Design, Product Management, UX are all part of the

This episode is the second part in a two-part series with Andy Polaine, the regional APAC design director for Fjord and Simon McIntyre who is the Associate Dean of Education in UNSW, formally COFA, the College of Fine Art and Design. In the first part, we spoke about the problems faced in education and spoke about some of the origins of these problems. This episode builds on that but goes deeper into the work that UNSW is undertaking about redesigning the university with a focus on enabling a culture that will better place their students for the future. What's so good about this combination of Andy and Simon is not only have they worked together before but is the relationship between Andy's service design history and his academic past in teaching in Europe. Together with Simon, they approach the subject of the future of education with pragmatism. Simons email mentioned in this episode S.McIntyre@unsw.edu.au Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjord

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana DesignIn this episode, we caught up with Andy Polaine who is Regional APAC Design Director for Fjord and also professor Simon McIntyre from UNSW to discuss the future of education and ask the mammoth question of, "Is education broken?". This episode is sponsored by Sustain Digital via a $500 donated to CaraCare.org.auSustain Digital is a recruitment company with a difference, they are ethical and are really passionate about what they do with global recruitment experience. So they're not your typical recruiters and they give back to the community. So most importantly they find the best talent, so they're like a matchmaker between employers and employees. If you’d like to get in touch with their founder Hollie Colbert you can do so via hollie@sustaindigital.com. Thanks so much for the donation Hollie! Links- Simons email mentioned in this episode S.McIntyre@unsw.edu.au- Connect with Andy on @Apolaine on Twitter, his website at polaine.com, via Fjords website at Fjordn

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana DesignIn this episode, we speak to the brilliant Megan Dell. Megan is a Human Center of Design leader based in Melbourne Australia and is currently head of UX for 99 Designs. We get Megan’s perspective on what makes a good and a bad leader and drill deeper into the organizational and cultural considerations that let the Human Center of Design methodology bloom. TIHCD is brought to you by Humana Design Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We caught up with Anthony Quinn recently and had a fascinating conversation. For anyone who has seen Anthony speak at design, conferences will know what a strong design thinker he is. We chat about how he got into design, how motivations and also took questions relating to the topics of career challenges from people working in the industry, and also how to increase your influence in an organisation. This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Anthony Quinn, Principal at Dynamic4.com Anthony Quinn, Principal, Dynamic4 Like you, Anthony Quinn, wants a world that’s more connected, knowledgeable, sustainable and equitable. At Dynamic4, he draws on over 25 years of hands-on experience to inspire, motivate and enable people to reach their potential to use design to that end. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyquinncxdesigndirector Twitter @AnthonyQuinnArt Attendees Vera Chan is a Senior User Experience designer at Symplicit. She has worked with a variety of clients such as NBNco, Telstra, Transpo