Prof. Clive Grinyer is Head of Service Design at the Royal College of Art and former Co-Founder of Tangerine and Design Director at Orange, Samsung, Cisco and Barclays.
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In episode #39 we talk with Ben Reason, Founding Partner at Livework, a service design & innovation consultancy. Ben and Livework where one of the very early adaptors and drivers of the “service design” discipline, bringing a new approach to designing experiences.
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In this episode I talk with Chris Jackson, Founder and Director of We Create Future in New Zealand. We touch on why future thinking is important and why there is not the “one future” but rather a plurality of futures but also why and how we as designers should consider the long term consequences in of our design decisions in times of design sprints and increasingly fast design circles.
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This episode I talk with Antonio Starnino about different views of “what is design”. Antonio draws his insights from a reflective and thoughtful article we was writing on Medium about 3 schools of design. We discuss the tension that is visible these days in the design community. The meaning of what design is range from traditional views where design is about the craft, to newer streams where design is seen as a cultural-mediator and driver for change to design as an inclusive tool for innovation that everyone can learn.
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The newest guest at Designdrives is Kathryn Richards, Design Director at Fjord in South Africa. Kathryn had the chance to drive Service Design and Design Strategy in an impressive amount of countries - she designed in London, Munich, Paris, Istanbul and across South Africa. This rich experience as a design leader is the base of our conversation: we learn what it means to design in different environments, solve local design problems and face new challenges like building up Designit London or transitioning to new roles of leading design teams.
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