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Design Talk 80. Digitally sustainable; Mirren Fischer, Founder, Brilliant Product Design

Mirren Fischer is someone who finds herself at the confluence of some really big challenges: creating a sustainable future and…

Design Talk 79. Our future towns; Dan Phillips, Royal College of Art

Poetry and place...listening and lockdowns... Dan Phillips, who led the Royal College of Art's (RCA) work on 'Our Future Towns'…

Design Talk 78. Mark Baldino, co-founder, Fuzzy Math

Mark Baldino's path to co-founding a Chicago-based design agency wends its way from a degree in theology and working at…

Design Talk 77. Paul Campbell, Chief Product Officer, Centaur Robotics

Paul Campbell, a former chief designer at Ford, is now re-imagining the wheelchair at Centaur Robotics. In this conversation with…

Interaction unintended

Opening the oven released a cloud of steam. I should have been expecting it. It's hardly the first time I've…

Design Talk 76. Placeful computing; Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist & founding partner, argodesign

Jared Ficklin's approach of 'think by making' has led him to produce remarkable digital design work, often at the forefront…

Yesterday’s modernity as a lens on the future’s dreamland

I recently found myself looking through a copy of V E Johnson's Modern Inventions from 1915. I’m still not sure…

Whimsical outcomes suggest good experience design

When does a 'thing' become elevated beyond its original purpose? Seated at the breakfast table, reading an FT article about…