Posts in Design Strategy
#79 | Sheng-Hung Lee | Empowering people through service design.

In this episode #79, we explore the dynamic relationship between design as a creative discipline and the systems and tools that shape this creativity, for better or for worse. Together with Sheng-Hung Lee we delve into the importance of customizing design processes to allow designers to focus on the most impactful aspects of their work, including the strategic and psychological components of problem-solving.

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#42 | Scott Nazarian | Driving capabilities and integrations of design

In episode 43, we chat with Scott Nazarian, Design Director at groundstate. Scott spent his formative years in design at frog, working his way up to Executive Creative Director at the design agency. He most recently was the Experience Design Director at McKinsey, leading teams in building design capabilities within enterprise-level scale companies.

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#16 | Kathleen Brandenburg | Driving strategy through design

In episode 16, I talk with Kathleen Brandenburg, Co-founder and Chief Design Strategy Officer at IA Collaborative - a global design and innovation agency in Chicago and Los Angeles. She is also part of the Innovation Council at Northwestern University, Board Member at Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design, Board of Trustees Member at IIT, and also recently co-taught Design for Social Innovation as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

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#5 | Ross Mitchell | Driving UX Research & Strategy from Ford to AT&T

In this episode we talk about Design Strategy and UX Research. Ross Mitchell is an experienced design leader that gained experience from the automotive field at Ford to the entertainment industry at AT&T as a director of UX Research and Strategy. Gaining experience in both in-house teams and design consultancies: Before his corporate experiences, he was also working at design agencies like RKS Design and served as an Adjunct Professor at CCS. Nowadays he is building WHOA as a Co-founder and Managing Director of the agency which bridges the sectors of research, strategy, innovation and design.

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