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Power of Ten with Andy Polaine
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In the Power of Ten podcast, Andy Polaine talks to guests from a broad range of disciplines about the intersection of design, technology, psychology, organisations, culture and society. The show looks at how design operates at many levels and in many forms, from thoughtful detail through organisational transformation to the changes in society and the world.
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S4 Ep6: Hansi Singh: AI-accelerated environmental forecasts
Season 4 ยท Episode 6
vendredi 28 juin 2024 โข Duration 38:26
Power of Ten is a show about design operating at all levels of zoom, from thoughtful detail to changes in organisation, society and the world, hosted by design leadership coach, Andy Polaine.ย
My guest in this episode comes from a very different field to design. Dr Hansi Singh is a former Professor of physical climate science, University of Victoria.ย A US Department of Energy Office of Science fellow and awardee. Specialist in Earth system modeling and high performance computing. Working group co-chair of the Community Earth System Model, funded by NSF.ย
And she uses all those amazing skills as CEO of Planette, a company specialising in AI-accelerated environmental forecasts to help inform decision making.
== LINKS==
== HANSI ==
- Planette: https://www.planette.ai/forecastsย
- Hansi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansi-singh-phd/
== ANDY ==
Website: https://www.polaine.comย
Newsletter: https://pln.me/nwsย
Podcast: https://pln.me/p10ย
Design Leadership Coaching: https://polaine.com/coaching
Courses: https://courses.polaine.comย
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apolaine/ย
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@apolaineย
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@apolaine
My guest in this episode comes from a very different field to design. Dr Hansi Singh is a former Professor of physical climate science, University of Victoria.ย A US Department of Energy Office of Science fellow and awardee. Specialist in Earth system modeling and high performance computing. Working group co-chair of the Community Earth System Model, funded by NSF.ย
And she uses all those amazing skills as CEO of Planette, a company specialising in AI-accelerated environmental forecasts to help inform decision making.
== LINKS==
== HANSI ==
- Planette: https://www.planette.ai/forecastsย
- Hansi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansi-singh-phd/
== ANDY ==
Website: https://www.polaine.comย
Newsletter: https://pln.me/nwsย
Podcast: https://pln.me/p10ย
Design Leadership Coaching: https://polaine.com/coaching
Courses: https://courses.polaine.comย
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apolaine/ย
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@apolaineย
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@apolaine
S4 Ep5: Indi Young - Mental Models and Thinking Styles
Season 4 ยท Episode 5
mercredi 10 avril 2024 โข Duration 58:44
Power of Ten is a show about design operating at all levels of zoom, from thoughtful detail to changes in organisation, society and the world, hosted by design leadership coach, Andy Polaine.ย
Indi Young is a solution strategist who uses purpose-focused qualitative data science. She created her method over a 30-year span, and teaches that method in courses, coaching, workshops, books, talks, and through working with teams on research studies.
Indi discusses how people are complex and nuanced and their mental models and thinking styles are not fixed personas or personalities. They changed based on context and it is essential that organisations listen to and consider different ways of thinking and addressing user needs.
Indi was a joy to speak with and this is a long episode, but she articulates her thinking and insights so well I could not bear to edit out more.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Indi's background
04:12 Origin's of design and strategic research - before UX research existed!
08:50 Persuading stakeholders to trust research
18:25 On Netflix, bias and unintentional harm
26:42 On Mental Models and interior cognition
33:20 The gobstopper/jawbreaker model
40:01 Thinking Styles
47:35 Why do companies still get this wrong all the time?
55:07 One small thing
56:52 Where to find Indi online
57:45 Outro
SHOW LINKS
INDI
Website: https://indiyoung.com/
Indi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/indiyoung/
Indi on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/indiyoung.bsky.social
Indi's Newsletter: https://indiyoung.substack.com
Indi on Medium: https://indiyoung.medium.com
Time to Listen - https://indiyoung.com/books-time-to-listen/
Practical Empathy - https://indiyoung.com/books-practical-empathy/
Mental Models: https://indiyoung.com/books-mental-models/
ANDY
Website: https://www.polaine.comย
Newsletter: https://pln.me/nwsย
Podcast: https://pln.me/p10ย
Design Leadership Coaching: https://polaine.com/coaching
Courses: https://courses.polaine.comย
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apolaine/ย
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@apolaineย
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@apolaine
MENTIONS
Lisa Dance's Today is the Perfect Day to Improve Customer Experiences: https://serviceease.net/book
Indi Young is a solution strategist who uses purpose-focused qualitative data science. She created her method over a 30-year span, and teaches that method in courses, coaching, workshops, books, talks, and through working with teams on research studies.
Indi discusses how people are complex and nuanced and their mental models and thinking styles are not fixed personas or personalities. They changed based on context and it is essential that organisations listen to and consider different ways of thinking and addressing user needs.
Indi was a joy to speak with and this is a long episode, but she articulates her thinking and insights so well I could not bear to edit out more.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Indi's background
04:12 Origin's of design and strategic research - before UX research existed!
08:50 Persuading stakeholders to trust research
18:25 On Netflix, bias and unintentional harm
26:42 On Mental Models and interior cognition
33:20 The gobstopper/jawbreaker model
40:01 Thinking Styles
47:35 Why do companies still get this wrong all the time?
55:07 One small thing
56:52 Where to find Indi online
57:45 Outro
SHOW LINKS
INDI
Website: https://indiyoung.com/
Indi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/indiyoung/
Indi on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/indiyoung.bsky.social
Indi's Newsletter: https://indiyoung.substack.com
Indi on Medium: https://indiyoung.medium.com
Time to Listen - https://indiyoung.com/books-time-to-listen/
Practical Empathy - https://indiyoung.com/books-practical-empathy/
Mental Models: https://indiyoung.com/books-mental-models/
ANDY
Website: https://www.polaine.comย
Newsletter: https://pln.me/nwsย
Podcast: https://pln.me/p10ย
Design Leadership Coaching: https://polaine.com/coaching
Courses: https://courses.polaine.comย
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apolaine/ย
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@apolaineย
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@apolaine
MENTIONS
Lisa Dance's Today is the Perfect Day to Improve Customer Experiences: https://serviceease.net/book
S3 Ep5: Dr Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon โ The Space Between Transformation and Liberation
Season 3 ยท Episode 5
mercredi 20 septembre 2023 โข Duration 56:33
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is Dr Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon, known as Doctor OG, an innovation catalyst, researcher, facilitator, and evaluator, based in Botswana. Pierce is impassioned by the space between transformation and liberation, and researches the complexity, evaluation, and emergence of design and innovation across the world.
Here we explore what that space between transformation and liberation actually is, the issues of power dynamics of politics in design, and why Human-Centred Design (HCD) can often exacerbate problems as opposed to being their solution.
Show Links Pierce Andy
My guest in this episode is Dr Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon, known as Doctor OG, an innovation catalyst, researcher, facilitator, and evaluator, based in Botswana. Pierce is impassioned by the space between transformation and liberation, and researches the complexity, evaluation, and emergence of design and innovation across the world.
Here we explore what that space between transformation and liberation actually is, the issues of power dynamics of politics in design, and why Human-Centred Design (HCD) can often exacerbate problems as opposed to being their solution.
Show Links Pierce Andy
- Subscribe to Power of Ten
- Subscribe to Andyโs newsletter Doctorโs Note
- Andy's online courses
- Andy on Mastodon
- Andy on LinkedIn
- Polaine.com
- Suggestions? Feedback? Get in touch!
S3 Ep4: Sheryl Cababa โ Systems Thinking for Designers
Season 3 ยท Episode 4
jeudi 29 juin 2023 โข Duration 50:47
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is Sheryl Cababa, author of Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers. Sheryl is a design researcher and strategist, and is the chief strategy officer at Substantial, a research insights and development studio based in Seattle. Her practice is focused on systems thinking and equity center design, and sheโs worked with a diverse base of clients, including the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Ikea, and Khan Academy.
Show Links Sheryl Andy
My guest in this episode is Sheryl Cababa, author of Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers. Sheryl is a design researcher and strategist, and is the chief strategy officer at Substantial, a research insights and development studio based in Seattle. Her practice is focused on systems thinking and equity center design, and sheโs worked with a diverse base of clients, including the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Ikea, and Khan Academy.
Show Links Sheryl Andy
S3 Ep3: Alex Schmidt โ Deliberate Intervention
Season 3 ยท Episode 3
jeudi 4 mai 2023 โข Duration 51:14
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is Alex Schmidt, author of Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology.
Alex has pursued interests in public service and design through different avenues over her career. As an award-winning reporter and producer for NPR and others, she covered arts, business, technology, and urban development. Alex has published work in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times , among other outlets. Her writing about UX, privacy, and other design topics has appeared in A List Apart and The Columbia Journalism Review.
As a researcher, strategist, and UX designer, Alex has worked both for agencies and in the public sector. Her greatest interest lies in the wicked problems inherent in enterprise design and the mysterious ways of large systems.
Show Links Alex
My guest in this episode is Alex Schmidt, author of Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology.
Alex has pursued interests in public service and design through different avenues over her career. As an award-winning reporter and producer for NPR and others, she covered arts, business, technology, and urban development. Alex has published work in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times , among other outlets. Her writing about UX, privacy, and other design topics has appeared in A List Apart and The Columbia Journalism Review.
As a researcher, strategist, and UX designer, Alex has worked both for agencies and in the public sector. Her greatest interest lies in the wicked problems inherent in enterprise design and the mysterious ways of large systems.
Show Links Alex
- Alex on LinkedIn
- Alex on Twitter
- Alexโs personal website
- Deliberate Interventionย book
S3 Ep2: Abby Covert โ Stuck? Diagrams Help.
Season 3 ยท Episode 2
jeudi 23 mars 2023 โข Duration 56:32
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is the wonderful Abby Covert, an author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture who aims to make information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone.
Abbyโs first book, How to Make Sense of Any Mess, demystified information architecture into a practical skillset that anyone can apply to any context where sense might need to be made. She recently published her second book, Stuck? Diagrams Help a field guide for the trek from diagram novice to diagram nerd.
Show Links Abby Andy
My guest in this episode is the wonderful Abby Covert, an author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture who aims to make information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone.
Abbyโs first book, How to Make Sense of Any Mess, demystified information architecture into a practical skillset that anyone can apply to any context where sense might need to be made. She recently published her second book, Stuck? Diagrams Help a field guide for the trek from diagram novice to diagram nerd.
Show Links Abby Andy
S3 Ep1: Natalie Dunbar โ From Solo to Scaled
Season 3 ยท Episode 1
lundi 6 fรฉvrier 2023 โข Duration 44:13
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is Natalie Dunbar, UX-focused content strategist with a unique blend of skills as a journalist, content writer, and user experience researcher. Natalie excels in balancing the creation of delightful user experiences with strategic content that supports the needs of a business or organization. She is author of the newly released Rosenfeld Media book, From Solo to Scaled: Building a Sustainable Content Strategy Practice.
Here Natalie talks about the various flavours and roles of content, the challenges and key inflection points as content teams scale.
Thanks to Rosenfeld Media, listeners can get Natalieโs book at 20% off the purchase price when you purchase directly from them using the code, POWEROFTENSTS.
Show Links Natalie
My guest in this episode is Natalie Dunbar, UX-focused content strategist with a unique blend of skills as a journalist, content writer, and user experience researcher. Natalie excels in balancing the creation of delightful user experiences with strategic content that supports the needs of a business or organization. She is author of the newly released Rosenfeld Media book, From Solo to Scaled: Building a Sustainable Content Strategy Practice.
Here Natalie talks about the various flavours and roles of content, the challenges and key inflection points as content teams scale.
Thanks to Rosenfeld Media, listeners can get Natalieโs book at 20% off the purchase price when you purchase directly from them using the code, POWEROFTENSTS.
Show Links Natalie
- Natalie's website
- Natalie on Twitter
- Natalie on Instagram
- Natalie on LinkedIn
- Natalie's Newsletter
- Women Talk Designย
- The Content Strategy Los Angeles meetup group.
- Natalie's book - From Solo to Scaled: Building a Sustainable Content Strategy Practice.
- Subscribe to Power of Ten
- Subscribe to Andyโs newsletter Doctorโs Note
- Andy's online courses
- Andy on Twitter
- Andy on LinkedIn
- Polaine.com
- Suggestions? Feedback? Get in touch!
S2 Ep28: Jason Mesut - Shaping Design
Season 2 ยท Episode 28
mercredi 26 octobre 2022 โข Duration 47:29
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is Jason Mesut who many know from IXDA conferences and his writing on Medium, particularly Shaping Design. Here we talk about design's role in helping cope with the complex wicked problems facing us, design leadership, design teams and how they self-reflect, direct their future and develop others.
Show Links Jason Andy
My guest in this episode is Jason Mesut who many know from IXDA conferences and his writing on Medium, particularly Shaping Design. Here we talk about design's role in helping cope with the complex wicked problems facing us, design leadership, design teams and how they self-reflect, direct their future and develop others.
Show Links Jason Andy
- Subscribe to Power of Ten
- Subscribe to Andyโs newsletter Doctorโs Note
- Andy's online courses
- Andy on Twitter
- Andy on LinkedIn
- Polaine.com
- Suggestions? Feedback? Get in touch!
S2 Ep27: Joff Outlaw - The Art of Engagement
Season 2 ยท Episode 27
mardi 27 septembre 2022 โข Duration 48:14
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is my friend and ex-colleague, Joff Outlaw, Managing Director of DesignIt for Australia and New Zealand, having taken over from Katja Forbes who was on the show a few months ago.
Joff has led design and consulting teams across the UK and Australia, with project work spanning across all industry verticals. He has a passion for Design, CX consulting and building successful and happy teams.ย
Here Joff talks about his key passion of helping clients through the sales process, which means taking the the time to truly understand an organisationโs short term and long term goals. And why he hates sourdough.
Show Links Joff
Andy
My guest in this episode is my friend and ex-colleague, Joff Outlaw, Managing Director of DesignIt for Australia and New Zealand, having taken over from Katja Forbes who was on the show a few months ago.
Joff has led design and consulting teams across the UK and Australia, with project work spanning across all industry verticals. He has a passion for Design, CX consulting and building successful and happy teams.ย
Here Joff talks about his key passion of helping clients through the sales process, which means taking the the time to truly understand an organisationโs short term and long term goals. And why he hates sourdough.
Show Links Joff
Andy
- Subscribe to Power of Ten
- Subscribe to Andyโs newsletter Doctorโs Note
- Andy's online courses
- Andy on Twitter
- Andy on LinkedIn
- Polaine.com
- Suggestions? Feedback? Get in touch!
S2 Ep26: KA McKercher - Beyond Sticky Notes
Season 2 ยท Episode 26
vendredi 15 juillet 2022 โข Duration 45:14
Power of Ten is a podcast hosted by Andy Polaine about design operating at many levels, zooming out from thoughtful detail through to organisational transformation and on to changes in society and the world.
My guest in this episode is KA McKercher, a designer and writer living on Aboriginal land in Australia. They have over 10 years experience leading social innovation and co-design approaches across Australia and New Zealand, previously working as Principal at The Australian Centre of Social Innovation, the Innovation Unit and the NSW government. Most recently KA has gone independent offering service design and co-design training, coaching, resources and support for senior leaders.
Show Links KA Andy
My guest in this episode is KA McKercher, a designer and writer living on Aboriginal land in Australia. They have over 10 years experience leading social innovation and co-design approaches across Australia and New Zealand, previously working as Principal at The Australian Centre of Social Innovation, the Innovation Unit and the NSW government. Most recently KA has gone independent offering service design and co-design training, coaching, resources and support for senior leaders.
Show Links KA Andy
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