

This is HCD – Human-Centered Design, UX & Service Design Thinking Podcast
Gerry Scullion
Welcome to This is HCD – Human-Centered Design, UX & Service Design Thinking Podcast, the global show for designers, innovators, and changemakers who want to create better products, services, and experiences.
Hosted by Gerry Scullion, with over 1-million downloads worldwide.
Each episode dives into conversations with leading voices in service design, UX design, interaction design, customer experience, and design strategy. Together, we explore the methods, mindsets, and real-world stories that bring human-centered design and design thinking to life.
Whether you’re a UX researcher, service design practitioner, product manager, or design leader, you’ll find actionable insights, practical tools, and inspiration to elevate your practice and drive meaningful change.
Tune in and join the global human-centered design community — learn how to design with purpose, create inclusive solutions, and shape a more thoughtful future.
Hosted by Gerry Scullion, with over 1-million downloads worldwide.
Each episode dives into conversations with leading voices in service design, UX design, interaction design, customer experience, and design strategy. Together, we explore the methods, mindsets, and real-world stories that bring human-centered design and design thinking to life.
Whether you’re a UX researcher, service design practitioner, product manager, or design leader, you’ll find actionable insights, practical tools, and inspiration to elevate your practice and drive meaningful change.
Tune in and join the global human-centered design community — learn how to design with purpose, create inclusive solutions, and shape a more thoughtful future.
Episodes
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Jun 19, 2019 • 53min
Leah Buley & Aarron Walter – 'InVision's Design Maturity Model'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, and welcome to Power of Ten, a podcast about designing and operating at many levels, from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation, to the changes in society in the world. My name is Andy Polaine, a designer, educator, and writer, and currently group director of client evolution at Fjord. The meta-theme this year for the Fjord trends was 'value'. I was excited to see that InVision, a company whose tools and platform many of our designers use, published their report about the design maturity model.Show LinksDesign Better – InVision’s amazing learning resourceInVision’s Design Genome Project – behind the scenes of design-forward companiesInVision’s Design Maturity Model reportLeah Buley is @leahbuley on TwitterAaron Walter is @aarron on TwitterCreators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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Jun 4, 2019 • 33min
Jack Wilkinson & Phil Balagtas 'A Primer for Designing a Speculative Future'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, and welcome to another episode of This is HCD. I’m your host Chi Ryan and in this episode, I’m speaking to Phil Balagtas and Jack Wilkinson from speculative futures, an international community focused on speculative and critical design, design fiction, futurism, and strategy and foresight. Practitioners in their own right, Phil has been a practicing visual and interaction designer since 2001 and has experienced designing across a variety of devices and platforms within non-profit, retail, advertising, and enterprise software organisations. Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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May 31, 2019 • 36min
Anne Galloway 'Speculative Design and Glass Slaughterhouses'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementIn this episode Andy speaks with Dr. Anne Galloway about speculative design, living with sheep, and how designers might re-consider their place in the world.Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anne Galloway’s academic profile at VUWThe More Than Human LabAnne is on Twitter as @annegallowayDr. Andy Polaine can be found on his website, Medium and Twitter as @apolaineCreators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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May 28, 2019 • 36min
Majid Iqbal 'Thinking in Services'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementIn this episode, we really focus on what a service is and what a service is not. Now, it might seem like a simple question, but the answer is not straight forward, as we discuss. I have a copy of Majid’s book to give away. To be in with a chance, make sure you’re on the This is HCD newsletter, so just go over to the website and sign up. Anyway, let’s get straight into the conversation with Majid. Buy Thinking in Services book (Book Depository)Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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May 21, 2019 • 31min
Georgie Smallwood 'N26 - Building the financial foundations of the future of neo-banking'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, my name is Gerry Scullion and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, which is part of the This is HCD Network. I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland. Bringing design into organisations is hardly ever straightforward, it comes with its own unique set of problems. In Bringing Design Closer, the podcast, we discuss with thought leaders around the world what has worked for them in enabling design revolutions to occur. Today in the show, we caught up with Georgie Smallwood, CPO at N26, the Berlin-based challenger bank, on a mission to become the world’s first global bank. Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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May 14, 2019 • 23min
Jason Prowd 'Unpacking product metrics'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementAdrienne: Hello, and welcome to Prod Pod. We’re a part of This is HCD. We’re bringing all human-centred practitioners real and honest conversations about product management. My name is Adrienne Tan and I’m the co-founder of Brainmates. Today, we’re talking to Jason Prowd about establishing and measuring product successful in financial services. Jason is a product leader at Morning Star. Since 1984, Morning Star has been helping investors achieve their financial goals by developing powerful researcher data and investment management products.Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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May 7, 2019 • 25min
Roman Pichler 'Exploring product strategy success factors through a Design lens'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, my name is Gerry Scullion and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, which is part of the This is HCD Network. I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland. Bringing design into organisations is hardly every straightforward, it always comes with its own unique set of problems. In Bringing Design Closer, the podcast, we discuss with thought leaders around the world, what has worked for them in enabling design revolutions to occur. Whilst at the Leading the Product Conference in Stockholm recently, I caught up with Roman Pichler, widely considered to be an expert in agile methodologies and product management.Roman Pichlers websiteProduct CanvasRoman on LinkedInRoman on Twitter Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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Apr 30, 2019 • 29min
Doug Powell 'Building a global Design capability and mindset at IBM'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, my name is Gerry Scullion and welcome to Bringing Design Closer, which is part of This is HCD. I’m a service design practitioner and trainer based in Dublin City, Ireland. Today in the show, we caught up with Doug Powell who’s an award-winning designer with more than 30 years’ experience in a wide range of design disciplines and is currently the vice president of design at IBM in Austin, Texas. We speak in great detail around what IBM looked like around Doug’s arrival, and what things that they did over the last six years to enable design centricity to occur inside Big Blue. Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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Apr 23, 2019 • 29min
Aaron Dignan 'Brave New Work'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementYou can find Aaron Dignan on Twitter as @aarondignan and at The Ready. You can find notes and links from his excellent book on the Brave New Work website.Aaron also wrote a Medium post explaining The OS Canvas and you‘ll find plenty of other writing from The Ready folks there. For those of you interested in the Simple Sabotage Field Manual from the Office of Strategic Services (precursor to the CIA) that we mention at the beginning of the interview, page 28, _General Interference with Organizations and Production_, is the page to flip to before facepalming at the state of organisations todayCreators & Guests
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Stef Murphy - Producer
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Apr 16, 2019 • 28min
Kate Dawson 'Redesigning how we educate and communicate sexual education'
We are building a global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup________________________Take the FREE Introduction to Journey Management course with Marc Stickdorn & Gerry Scullion → https://www.thisishcd.com/learning/introduction-to-journey-managementHello, and welcome to Brining Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion and I’m a service design practitioner based in Dublin City, Ireland. Today, I caught up with Kate Dawson, a doctoral researcher from the NUI school of psychology in Galway Ireland. Now, I actually stumbled across Kate’s work on This Morning, the UK TV show with Eamon Holmes and Ruth Langford. In that episode, Kate was speaking about how we should maybe consider teaching about masturbation and porn as part of more open discussions around sex education and our bodies with children in school.Creators & Guests
Gerry Scullion - Host
Stef Murphy - Producer
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