Design is Everywhere

How can change be designed to be easier, better, and more effective? In this week’s episode, we learn about the role of design in change management. Sam is joined by Tim Creasey, an author, researcher, and change expert. As Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci, Tim enables change teams to catalyze adoption and usage to deliver results and outcomes. Tim explains what change management is and the Prosci approach to change management. Later on in the show, they are joined by Christa Engelmann, Transformation Facilitator at Microsoft. Together they chat about coaching individuals, teams, and organizations on their digital transformation journey and the process of guiding change.

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Design Thinking for Change Management

How does design evoke the museum experience? In this week’s episode, we are talking about graphic design in museums and how graphic design is approached when designing for the arts. Sam is joined by Katherine Hughes, Design Director at Stoltze Design Group. Katherine talks more about the impact of design on the visual arts. Later on in the show, they are joined by Lisa Fischman, Director and Chief Curator at The Davis Museum on the Wellesley College campus. Together they discuss how the team at Stoltze Design and The Davis Museum have worked to produce exhibition identities, catalogues, and exhibition graphics.

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Enhancing the Museum Experience with Design

There’s a presidential election coming up in less than a month, in an unprecedented time. Today we’ll be discussing the intersection of design and voting; how to make voting a good experience and make it accessible and equitable for all. Every election’s stakes are high, yet roughly 60% of Americans don’t turn out to vote. As one of our guests wrote: The real problem is that voting in America is just hard. Like anything, voting is an experience that should be designed to maximize participation. This week’s guest co-host is an expert on design and voting; Dana Chisnell is the Director of Project ReDesign at the National Conference on Citizenship. Prior to her current role, she was instrumental in developing the Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent. We talk to Dana about her career in civic design and how design plays a role in making voting easier for everyone involved. And our guest is Beth Huang. She’s the Director of Massachusetts Voter Table, where she works with community organizations to increase voter turnout and civic leadership in communities of color and working-class people in the state. We chat with Beth about her strategies for engaging new voters, not just for the 2020 presidential election, but for local and state elections as well as for ongoing political participation. Plus, we have our weekly dose of good design for you.

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Designing the Voter Experience for Accessibility and Engagement

This week we’re talking prosthetic design, specifically advancements that utilize sensors and robotics to improve the lives of individuals living with limb-loss and limb-difference. In early-2018, we unveiled a new exhibition called Bespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics. The traveling exhibition explores the relationship between craft, design, material, and the human body. Is there any design more impactful than the designs we connect directly to our bodies? One of our amazing partners in the effort to curate and develop the Bespoke Bodies exhibition was Mike Benning from Hanger Clinic. We speak with Mike, Marketing Manager at Hanger Clinic, and champion for the limb-loss and limb-difference community. Mike is also a prosthetic device user — he was the first American to be fitted with the i-Limb quantum, an advanced bionic hand. And we have a special guest, the inventor of the i-Limb, David Gow, who joins us from Scotland. David is the retired, former head of SMART Services at the UK’s National Health Service, who went on to found and run Touch Bionics, the company that productized the i-limb platform and brought it to market. This is the first time Mike and David have met, and it’s incredible to hear the gratitude Mike has for the work David did on the prosthetic hand. Plus, we all share our weekly dose of good design.

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The Bionic Hand: Powered Prosthetic Devices Controlled by Sensors

As we approach Design Museum’s Workplace Innovation Summit (December 7-11), on this week’s episode we’re talking about designing healthy workspaces in these unprecedented times — and what lessons we can learn from healthcare environments that can be applied to the workspaces. While many office workers are still working at home — healthcare workers don’t have a choice; they’ve have had to quickly adapt their environments to make them even safer for folks during the pandemic. For the work-from-home crowd, the shine might be wearing off purely remote work as we seek connection with our colleagues and customers. We’re physical beings, and collaboration is just easier in-person. Work environments are and will (probably) always be part of our lives, so we can connect in person, share ideas, and develop new ideas. We have two design leaders from HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering, and planning firm, to discuss the future of the workplace and how they design healthy workplaces. Our guest co-host is Donald Cremers — he’s a Principal and Senior Project Interior Designer in HOK’s San Francisco studio. And then we’re joined by Donald’s colleague in the New York office, Christine Vandover — she’s an Interior Design Principal at HOK. Plus, we’ll have our weekly dose of good design.

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Hybrid, Healthy Workplaces as Employee Engagement Centers