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The Human Centered Design Podcast (This is HCD) | Service Design & UX

The Human Centered Design Networkwww.thisishcd.com
Welcome to This is HCD, the premier podcast for human-centered design, with well 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. Tune in, get inspired, and shape the future with This is HCD!
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Episodes

Kate Dawson 'Redesigning how we educate and communicate sexual education'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Apr 16, 201928 min

Aleth Gueguen 'Looking at Design through a GDPR lens'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Hello, and welcome to Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner based in Dublin City, Ireland. Today, I caught up with Aleth Gueguen, a GDPR legal specialist based on Nantes, France. We chat about all things GDPR related and run through a typical research scenario of ga...

Apr 09, 201930 min

André Schaminée 'Designing with and within public organisations'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd A very warm welcome to the very first episode of Bringing Design Closer. It’s a podcast dedicated in exploring the tactical and strategic things that work in enabling a design centricity to occur in organisations, businesses, and governments. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner based in ...

Apr 02, 201930 min

Jo-Anne Bichard 'What the Anthropologist sees: Public toilets as cultural spaces'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Hello, and welcome to Ethno Pod on This is HCD. My name is John Curran and I’m your guest host. I’m a business anthropologist, executive coach, and CEO of JC and Associates, which is a consultancy that explores how culture shapes organisations and consumer behaviour. Jo Anne walked through the three key areas of wh...

Mar 26, 201930 min

Nick Coster 'Unpacking NPS'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Hello, and welcome to Prod Pod. 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 Brain Mates. In this episode, I caught up with Nick Coster, a veteran product management practitioner ...

Mar 19, 201928 min

Jeff Gothelf 'The cannonball effect'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Links in this episode Jeff on Twitter Buy Lean UX book Buy Sense and Respond book Sense and Respond Press Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off you...

Mar 12, 201949 min

Matiu Bush 'Life, Death, and Using Design in Health and Aged Care'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Feb 26, 201936 min

Liz Fosslien 'No hard feelings: Emotions in Design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Hello, and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and in this episode, I’m speaking to Liz Fosslien, designer, illustrator, and co-author of the brilliant book: No Hard Feelings, The Secret Power of Embracing Emotion at Work. Liz spent the last three years empowering leaders at companies ...

Feb 12, 201943 min

Brendan Dawes 'Working at the intersection of People, Objects & Technology.'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Jan 29, 201927 min

Dr. John Curran 'Two tribes go to war. Dealing with conflict as part of Design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In this episode, I caught up with Dr. John Curran, a London-based anthropologist. Now, we met in Service Design Days in Barcelona where John was giving a keynote on conflict, and how important it is to deal with this conflict, not only in the design process but also the broader impact to the business itself. Links ...

Jan 15, 201931 min

Gerry McGovern 'Top Tasks; A method for understanding peoples product and service requirements'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd 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. ...

Dec 18, 201831 min

Hazel White & Mike Press 'Making a difference through design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Now before we jump into the interview, i wanted to mention we have a shelf load of books to give-away as thank you to all of our listeners in 2018. To be in with a chance of winning the books, you need to be on our newsletter which you can subscribe on at thisishcd.com – we’ve got books from O’Reilly Media in NYC o...

Dec 04, 201830 min

Andy Polaine 'Mindful Service Design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd 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...

Nov 20, 201819 min

Steve Portigal 'Symbolic Lab Coats, ASMR and Coke-Fueled Lap Dances: More User Research War Stories'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Nov 06, 201848 min

John Thackara 'Designing for all of life, not just human life'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In this episode we discussed John's work at great detail, his keynote at Service Design Days, and spoke about the greater purpose of design and maybe even human centered design isn't broad enough as it should include animals and the greatest resource of them all, the earth. Now this episode is definitely one of tho...

Oct 23, 201823 min

Frank Long 'Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Oct 09, 201842 min

Marc Stickdorn and Adam Lawrence 'A Service Design 360'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Sep 25, 201847 min

Sarah Drummond ‘Kick-starting a design revolution’

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Sep 11, 201833 min

Patrick Quattlebaum 'Breaking down tribes to enable the orchestration of experiences'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Aug 28, 201836 min

Sarah Richards 'Content Design. What is it? And why it's so f#cking important in the delivery of a product and service'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Aug 14, 201831 min

Gerry McGovern ‘The repositioning of trust in society’

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Jul 31, 201853 min

Joey Zeledon 'Touchy Feely: everyday things that inspire deeper empathy'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Jul 17, 201838 min

Adam Fivenson 'Using a human-centered design approach to design foreign aid programs'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Hi and welcome to another episode of 'This is HCD' coming to you from Brooklyn, New York. I am your host Chirryl-Lee Ryan and in this episode I'm speaking to Adam Fivenson, a user researcher and self-described 'non-designer' of new technologies for civic engagement. Adam works at DAI, an international development c...

Jul 03, 201843 min

Ivy Hornibrook 'Moving From UX into Product'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer Like what we do? Make a Tip . Or Leave a review (+ help us grow) : Sponsor links 10x your service design offering with Smaply. Take 20% off your order with ' 'ThisisHCD20off' Sign up https://auth.smaply.app/sign-up Check out This is HCD x Sutsu rang...

Jun 19, 201823 min

Faruk Avdi 'What role can technology play in support of people suffering with mental health'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In this episode, we discuss what role, if any, can technology play in support of people suffering with mental health. I wanted to give you a bit of context on the topic in this episode. So I'll start by telling you a little bit about bipolar disorder, once called manic depression. Bipolar disorder is a medical cond...

Jun 05, 201823 min

Victor Rodrigues 'Building a Design capability inside Cochlear'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In 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 th...

May 22, 201827 min

Marc Stickdorn 'Embedding Service Design into Organisations'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In 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 2...

May 08, 201850 min

Jay Hasbrouck 'The power of ethnographic thinking in Design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In this episode, we chat with the author of Ethnographic Thinking, Jay Hasbrouck. We go through what ethnographic thinking is and how it should be applied to inform richer contextual insights for design teams and how designers have abused or misunderstood ethnography and even touch on some retail rituals in the US ...

Apr 24, 201830 min

Jon Hicks 'Understanding the differences between brand design and icon design'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd In this episode, we caught up with Gentleman designer himself, Jon Hicks. Jon is a graphic designer and illustrator but has worked across a broad spectrum of mediums in his career. Most of us will be familiar with Jons work, whether it be the first Firefox logo, or Spotify's icons, or ANZ customers in Australia wil...

Apr 10, 201839 min

Greg Bernarda 'Designing businesses for the new world'

If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter . Design Smarter. Lead Better. Leave a review (+ help us grow): https://ratethispodcast.com/hcd 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 ...

Mar 26, 201832 min
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