design thinking
TagDesign Talk 64. Nurturing design culture; Anna Bäck, CEO, Kivra
Anna Bäck has seen user-centred design from all angles: spending time as managing director of a small specialist agency, playing a leadership role at a larger agency as it became part of McKinsey and most recently as CEO of an expanding digital pl…
Design Talk 61. Fostering the global creative economy; Fiona Myles, Kin Branding
Fiona Myles runs her own agency, Kin Branding, working at the intersection of brand strategy and design thinking. In addition, she works all over the world delivering workshops and education programmes to foster a design-led, creative economy with…
Design Talk 60. Experience thinking; Tedde van Gelderen, Founder, Akendi
Tedde van Gelderen, founder of design agency Akendi and author of the book Experience Thinking, shares the story of his career journey with MEX founder Marek Pawlowski. From client-side roles with Philips and Nortel, to founding and selling an ear…
Design Talk 59. Rethinking smartphones; Jo Barnard, Founder, Morrama
Jo Barnard is founder of the London-based design agency Morrama. She talks to Marek Pawlowski about the journey she’s been on since founding the business four years ago. The conversation turns to the development of Morrama’s beautifully considered…
Consistency and confidence flow from effective design systems
Consistency builds confidence. The introduction of a design system can ensure consistent delivery for complex organisations, as demonstrated in this example created for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1977 by Chermayeff …
Hidden ingredients and their influence on experience design
An attempt at glass blowing left me thinking about how design properties can remain hidden during manufacture yet go on to define the experience of the finished product.
Encouraged by the visit of a cousin with an interest in craft, I found…
Design Talk 49. Design-led startup; Gil Kahana, co-founder & CEO, ChattyFeet
Gil Kahana is one of a growing number of designers launching their own start-ups. He shares the story with MEX founder Marek Pawlowski, tracing the arc from falling in love with user-centred design at the BBC in the mid-2000s to working agency-sid…
Good talk
Keep talking, I say.
Hosting the MEX podcast gives me an opportunity for in-depth conversations with diverse practitioners from all over the world. Sometimes I know my guests already, but in the 45 episodes we’ve recorded, I’ve never failed to …