The Feeling Designer

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The Feeling Designer Podcast is a place where we speak to purpose-driven designers about the ways they foster more genuine connections with themselves and the world around them. Each episode delves into meaningful conversations with the industry’s most thoughtful practitioners, uncovering hidden skills that transform good designers into extraordinary human-centred innovators. Discover why ’feeling’ matters just as much as any other skill development across the design spectrum, and learn practical ways to move towards a design career that’s deeply fulfilling. Hosted by Jessica Watson. ❤️‍🔥 Fol...

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The Feeling Designer

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Trust before tactics for co-design that sticks with Callan Rowe 13.10.2025 1:05:05

Design consultant and researcher Callan Rowe joins Jessica Watson to unpack co-design that actually sticks: designing at the speed of trust, naming decision power, and moving from co-define to co-design to co-deliver. Cal traces a path from film and communication design to strategy and capability-building with VillageCo., sharing how to balance breadth vs depth, why “voice of …” projects are often...

Designing for dignity, safety and belonging with Diletta Legowo 12.10.2025 51:38

Designer and facilitator Diletta Legowo joins Jessica Watson to unpack how to design for “home”, the conditions that help people feel safe, dignified and empowered, across multicultural, power-aware collaborations. We explore facilitating yourself first, meeting people where they are, and why naming power and positionality matters. Bonus! Rituals that keep facilitators present (walks, yoga, medita...

Somatic connection practises for designers with Celine Waters 12.10.2025 57:37

Somatic embodiment coach and human-centred designer Celine Waters joins Jessica Watson to explore how body-based practices can transform design work in complex, trauma-touched contexts. Celine traces her path from biochemistry and computer science to service design, and we unpack the window of tolerance, safety, belonging and dignity as practical design inputs, and how facilitators can use centrin...

A new design story for Australia with Jessica Watson 12.10.2025 28:10

Your host, Jessica Watson, introduces The Feeling Designer Podcast, a podcast about empathy-led, place-based, co-designed practice. From London and Shanghai to TACSI, Jess unpacks the method and mindset behind designing for belonging, care and cultural respect, and why Australia needs a new design identity grounded in Country and community. Featuring lessons from brand strategy, experience masterp...