Podcast – The Importance of Design

“You know sometimes people think it’s just a trendy thing to have, this thing called Design Thinking. I’ve been convincing them otherwise – that it works. We’ve proven that it works.”

Kate Pound, a former delegate on our Design Thinkers Bootcamp course, talks to us about what she took from the course and how it is being used to innovate in the NHS.

Hayley sits down with Belinda, our new Head of Faculty, to find out more about her career and what she loves about Design Thinking.

Craig Tomkins has joined us as a Senior Service Designer. He brings top notch agency experience and a love of car design, bikes and transport. Hayley catches up with Craig on his journey so far.

Holly May Mahoney has just joined as our new Design Lead here at Design Thinkers Academy in London. Mel Taylor, our Marketing Director, catches up with her at her new desk to find out about her creative adventures so far and what she’s planning next.

The Design Museum recently launched ‘Industry Insights’, a series of talks for students who wish to learn more about design and where it can be applied. The first event of this series takes place this Thursday 2nd February and focusses on design for health and wellbeing. Catherine Erneux from DTA interviewed Meera Rajan, the curator of this event.

Arne van Oosterom is a design thinking coach and one of the founders of the Design Thinkers Academy. In between training sessions at the last Design Thinkers Bootcamp, Catherine, our Marketing & Content Manager, sat down with him to discuss the Academy and how the bootcamp came to be. Watch our small video to learn more.

Jo Maude our producer pins down our founder David Kester. Jo has run courses and events for senior leaders in and around the creative industries for more than 20 years and asks David to explain himself: Why design thinking? and why create the Design Thinkers Academy in London?