Design Thinking Roundtable

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Hannah Chung, Co-founder of Sproutel and Design for America (DFA). Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, we talked with Jess Majekodunmi, an accomplished design historian, an experienced facilitator and an occasional poet, currently the Director of the Human Insights Lab at The Dock, Accenture’s Flagship R&D and Innovation Center, based in Dublin, Ireland. Jess shared with us her views on conscientious innovation, in particular when designing AI systems. She stressed the importance of designing for unintended consequences, and how history allows us to understand the present and imagine the future in order to to create meaningful and sustainable solutions Follow her on Twitter @MajekJess and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessmajekodunmi/ Some of the resources Jess shared about AI: https://ethicalos.org https://ethicalstack.virteuproject.eu https://doteveryone.org.uk Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

In this episode, Mayo Nissen, a a New York-based creative director, currently Design Lab Director at the New York City Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, talked about his work at the intersections and interplay between research, systems thinking, and human-centered design. He shares with us his approach to human-centered design and how a systems thinking lens allows us to zoom in and out to create meaningful and sustainable solutions. To learn more about Mayo's work: http://www.mayonissen.com Follow him on Twitter @mayonissen Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Jeremy Joachim, Creative Technologist on Gensler’s Digital Experience Design team. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Umi Syam, Multimedia Editor at The New York Times. You can see her work on http://umi.codes/ Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, Lee-Sean Huang, a designer and storyteller, cofounder of Foossa, a community-centered design consultancy, tells us about storytelling and its role in the design process, and shares with us his perspective on the intersection between design and democracy. To learn more about Lee-Sean's work, check his website: https://leesean.net/ , Foossa's website: https://foossa.com/ and follow her on Twitter.com/leesean Make sure to listen to Design Futures Now, the podcast he runs for AIGA, the professional association for design: https://anchor.fm/designfuturenow To learn more about two projects mentioned on the podcast: A talk about the Kigali Genocide Memorial project: https://vimeo.com/143880913 The video created for the Future of Financial Counseling: http://dfe.nyc/financial-counseling-video Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

Engineering X Design is a Podcast Series produced by the Design Lab at NYU MakerSpace. This podcast complements a series of fireside chats where we invite professionals working at the intersection of design, engineering, and technology. Our guest for this episode is Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Managing Director of Product and Experience at Unreasonable Group. Credits--- conception and production: Anne-Laure Fayard; sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook; voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard; logo design: Florentina Sergiou

In this episode, Sarah Fathallah, a Moroccan social designer and researcher, talks about her work at the intersection of human-centered design, community-centered design and participatory design. She shares with us her approach to design research and illustrates it with stories that show the value of design research in creating meaningful solutions. To learn more about Sarah's work, check her website: https://sarahfathallah.com, read her writing on Medium: https://medium.com/@sfath and follow her on Twitter.com/SFath Credits: Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook

In this episode, Tim Reitzes from NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity and Daniel Herrera from the Administration of Children’s Services tell our host, Priyanka Vora, how their offices collaborated to use the principles of human-centered design to make ACS’ services more user-friendly. Here’s who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show: Tim Reitzes, Design Lead, NYC Civic Service Design Studio at Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity Daniel Herrera, Advisor, Division of Prevention Services at the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) in New York City. ********* Credits: Production, host: Priyanka Vora; Conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook *********

In the second episode, our host, Priyanka Vora sat down with experts at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Lab at OPM (The United States Office of Personnel Management) who applied human-centered design to better understand Veterans’ perspectives on how to prevent suicide as they transition out of military service. Here’s who we interviewed in the order they appear on the show: Commander Shannon (‘Kinzie) Lee, Lead for Strategic Partnerships at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control’s Office of Policy and Partnerships. Leah Chan, Public Health Advisor on the Strategic Partnerships Team in the Office of Policy and Partnerships at CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Ben Winter, Service designer and strategist at the Lab at OPM (The United States Office of Personnel Management) If you are having thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free. You can find a list of international resources at speakingofsuicide.com/resources ********* Credits: Production, host: Priyanka Vora; Conception: Anne-Laure Fayard; Sound design, music & post-production: Blake Rook ********* Acknowledgment: Thank you to our sponsor, NYU Tandon’s Department of Technology Management and Innovation.