user-centred design
TagDesign Talk 74. Jennifer Sukis, Director of Design for AI Transformation, IBM
Jennifer Sukis returns to the podcast to discuss changes in her own role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and design, as well as IBM’s growing focus on this area for its big enterprise clients. The chat with MEX founder Marek Pawlows…
Design 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 48. Sofia Svanteson, co-founder & CEO, Elsa Science; founder & chairman, Ocean; Health by design
Sofia Svanteson shares how founding and growing her own design agency has helped to shape Elsa, her new life sciences venture which aims to support rheumatoid patients in achieving meaningful self-care. She talks to MEX founder Marek Pawlowski abo…
Design Talk 40. Crap Futures with James Auger & Julian Hanna
James Auger and Julian Hanna, the duo behind the Crap Futures blog, talk to Marek Pawlowski about what motivated them to take on a provocative question we all ponder from time-to-time: whether or not the digital age we’re ushering in really repres…
Methods and mindsets for circular design
Part of a new MEX series highlighting compelling case studies which catch our eye. Follow @mexfeed or by signing-up for the weekly email newsletter.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO collaborated to produce a detailed, practical guide to …
£3m to fund early stage design innovation
Design Foundations is a funding programme offering £3m to support early stage investment in design. Announced at a London event on 17th January 2017, it is the first Innovate UK funding of its kind with an explicitly horizontal remit, intended to …
Intro to user research in 4 videos: better interviews to generative techniques
Rory Southworth’s video series of 4 ‘lightening’ sessions on user research starts with the basics of how user insights drive better design decisions and goes on to explain a range of techniques for delving deeper into user motivations.
Each of …
Hiring, growth and the long-term cycle of user-centred design skills
About once a day I receive an email from a contact, usually the head of UX at a larger company or the founder of a design agency, and it goes a little like this:
“Hi, it’s X. I’m struggling to hire someone who can ‘…insert various user-c…