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Design ObserverWho gets to decide where power begins and ends? We’re sharing two new episodes of the Draw the Line podcast , and this time we’re taking you behind the scenes as voters and lawmakers clashed over voting rights this past spring.
Design ObserverYou need an observation practice In all my Design Juice interviews, curiosity keeps coming up. Of course, it’s not completely surprising, considering curiosity is a designer’s natural inclination.
Design ObserverBONUS: Live from Essence Fest – The Work Gets Personal If you spend enough time on voting rights work, you become more fluent than you ever thought you’d be in legal history, court cases, maps, and the enormously creative, and pretty ugly, ways some…
Design ObserverBONUS: Live from Essence Fest – The Accounting Instead of hanging at a cookout, a determined group of Black women convened during Essence Fest on July 4 to do something even more American: demand more from their democracy.
Design ObserverS13 E8 DB|BD at Aspen: Eric Ries Would Like to Apologize Eric Ries would like to apologize. In 2011 he published a book called The Lean Startup. Most of you have probably heard of it.
Design ObserverS13 E7 DB|BD at Aspen: Proactivity is the Key to Survival With Edelman’s Dave Fleet AI Dave Fleet sees more corporate crises in a month than many executives see in their entire career. He is the Managing Director and the Head of Global Crisis at Edelman, meaning he helps companies…
Design ObserverS13E5 DB|BD at Aspen: Innovation Requires Collaboration with Professor Linda Hill Linda Hill has been a professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years. Let me say that again… Linda Hill has been a professor at Harvard Business School for FOUR decades.
Design ObserverS13 E4 DB|BD at Aspen: Dean Erika James Says a Prepared Leader is a Disciplined One Erika James became the Dean of the Wharton School on July 1, 2020. You remember that summer… we were deep into the pandemic and amidst one of the largest social reckonings in American history.
Design ObserverS13 E6 DB|BD at Aspen: Motivating People is a Design Challenge with Deloitte’s Steve Goldbach Steve Goldbach leads Deloitte’s Sustainability and Infrastructure practice. He believes today’s leaders face an emerging new design challenge: figuring out how the next generation will build real…
Design ObserverS13E3 DB|BD at Aspen: AI is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time With Chris Hyams Chris Hyams spent 15 years at the job search platform Indeed, becoming its CEO in 2019. When he stepped down in 2025, more than 300 million jobseekers visited Indeed’s site every month.
Design Observer‘What if care were foundational to systems design?’ asks Rachael Dietkus Rachael Dietkus’s long and winding list of professional experiences have led her to a clear path: she knows how we can make the world better.
Design ObserverIf Emmett Till Lived The image is arresting: a small Black boy, tossed aloft by his father on a perfect Chicago summer beach day. The photo is black and white; the warmth of the other sun wraps them both.
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