Voice of Design
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Voice of Design
Having the conversations about design we want to have, sometimes with guests. Hosted by Erika Hall and Mike Monteiro.You should listen. voiceofdesign.substack.com
Recent Episodes
24 episodes
Episode 24: Technology and Society
We sit down with Max-Beverton Palmer, Head of Tech and Society at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, to discuss his work helping policy-makers ad...
Episode 23: How to Negotiate
We get the band back together! Our lawyer Gabe Levine joins us to reminisce about contract negotiations past and discuss the fundamentals of negotiati...
Episode 22: Accessible Design for Everyone
Accessibility consultant and trainer Elle Waters joins us to talk about the importance of inclusive design, and why we aren’t there yet.
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Episode 21: Union Strong
Yonah Camacho Diamond, union organizer with the Communications Workers of America explains how unions works in the US. We discuss why tech workers mig...
Episode 20: Design is Gay
John Hanawalt, designer and co-founder of the Queer Design Club, returns to Mule to tell us about his work to celebrate queer contributions to the des...
Episode 19: Talking to Strangers
Kio Stark, author of When Strangers Meet, TED speaker, and person who by her own admission makes strange faces, joins us to talk about the benefits of...
Episode 18: Not Content with Content
Kristina Halvorson, founder of Brain Traffic and Confab: the Content Strategy Conference joins us to talk about content, and strategy, and why some pe...
Episode 17: Design is the Solution?
Design pioneer, entrepreneur, author, and longtime friend of Mule Nathan Shedroff joins us to talk about innovation, sustainability, and the C...
Episode 16: Ruined by Design
Mike wrote a book about ethics. We also talk inexpertly about equines and touch on the stupidity of gender reveal parties and Ayn Rand fans.
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Episode 15: Designer Yells at Cloud
Jeff Tidwell, entrepreneur and long-time friend of Mule joins us to talk about his latest project. Next For Me is a resource for people 50+ as they na...
Episode 14: Quant to Qual
We are joined by Lynne Polischuik, a veteran researcher, founder of LynneUX, and Canadian with a small weird dog. She shares what she’s learned over h...
Episode 13: Funny, you don’t LOOK like designers
Mike, who makes better coffee than Larisa, and Larisa, who is better at math than Mike, are joined in the studio by David Dylan Thomas to talk about c...
Episode 12: What’s Up With The Web?
We sit down with the legendary Jen Simmons, currently Designer and Developer Advocate at Mozilla, to take stock of the web in 2019. Design, technology...
Episode 11: Design Strategy for the Birds
We catch up with John Mahoney, Vice President of Digital Products at National Audubon Society for the National Audubon Society. Four years after a suc...
Episode 10: Humans Talk to Humans
We welcome Nate Bolt, the founder of Ethnio and author of Remote Research, to talk about talking to the right people, why so many businesses go about...
Episode 9: Empathy for the Devil
Stephanie Lucas, Senior UX Designer at LinkedIn joins us to share how she incorporated principles from the Mule ethics workshop into her practice. Ins...
Episode 8: It’s All Practice
It’s a new season of VOD, and the theme is design practice. After contemplating the tyranny of seaside pumpkins, Erika and Larisa talk about the promi...
Episode 7: Towards Civic Futures
Is the problem with systems design that we’ve forgotten how to make good compromises? Strategic designer and co-founder of Dash Marshall Bryan Boyer t...
Episode 6: Public Interest
Scratch a follower of Ayn Rand and you’ll find someone who looks to the government for help in a hurricane. Pragmatic design leader and public sector...
Episode 5: Design and The Triple Storyline
While we weren’t paying attention, software ate the world and barfed up a hellscape. By taking a broader set of perspectives, designers can work with...
Episode 4: People Are the Problem
We sat down with Dan Brown to talk about the joy and pain of facilitation, issues with various types of maps, and why designers have to get comfortabl...
Episode 3: The Learning Loop
Don’t call it gamification. Author, game designer, and CEO of Shufflebrain, Amy Jo Kim joins us to talk about her Game Thinking methodology, the joy o...
Episode 2: The Democratization of Design
Designer Khoi Vinh joins us to talk about his take on the job of a designer and his efforts to make the field more accessible.
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Episode 1: What is the job of a designer?
What is the job of a designer? This is our first episode and this topic will be the theme of our first season.