EP106 with Tea Uglow

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07/12/19 • 55 min

In this episode, we spoke with Tea Uglow, experimental person in charge at google's creative lab, Sydney. Tea Uglow is one of those very few people who genuinely make you rethink everything you thought you knew. This episode is full of interesting insights into how we can think about technology, inclusiveness, design, and accommodation. We talk very briefly about her early days at Google in 2006 and how she didn’t particularly see herself working there for long, fast forwarding to today where she works in the idea of information, space and how digital works with humans, technology and culture. We covered how experimentation can be part success and part disaster, our relationship with truth in communication, ethics, inclusiveness and framing problems. Big thank you to special guest host Prue Jones, our friends at Streamtime and The Design Conference Brisbane. Check out streamtime.net to keep on top your projects. Admin without feeling like admin. Links http://teau.me https://research.ambientlit.com JFK Unsilenced campaign: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/06/22/cannes-lions-the-day-jfk-unsilenced-wins-creative-data-grand-prix-cannes

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EP107 with Amanda Munilla

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