Gerry Scullion

This is HCD: Human-Centred Design, UX & Service Design

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Practical conversations about human-centred design, service design, and UX for designers who want to do meaningful work inside real organisations. Gerry Scullion talks with leading practitioners, design leaders, and strategists about what actually works: building design maturity, getting buy-in from leadership, running better research, improving customer experience, and growing design teams that deliver lasting impact. With over 1 million downloads worldwide, This is HCD is the go-to podcast for UX designers, service designers, UX researchers, product managers, and anyone working to embed desi...

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Gerry Scullion

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www.thisishcd.com

Latest episode

May 20, 2026

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Episodes

Summer Howarth 'Co-designing a new architecture of learning' 19.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Welcome to a new episode of Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment. In this episode, Melanie speaks with Summer Howarth, a learning designer based in Australia.  Creators &...

Dr Jane Hession & Ronan Healy 'The Power of Play' 09.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode, I speak with the Founder of How Might We, a Limerick-based design consultancy. We speak about how they are using Lego Serious Play to help enable bigger an...

Adam Lawrence 'Facilitation Fundamentals' 07.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Adam Lawrence and Gerry Scullion speak facilitation and how Adam is adapting his facilitation skills in light of the global pandemic. We speak about the grid-edge of opport...

Kelly Ann McKercher 'Doing co-design for real' 04.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode of Moments of Change, Melanie Rayment speaks with the wonderful Kelly Ann McKercher. Kelly Ann McKercher is a co-design coach, facilitator and social resear...

Doing Design 'Content Design within Services' 03.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Sarah Richards and Gerry Scullion speak about the role of Content Design within Services and speak about the cross over between the disciplines of content design and servic...

Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.' 01.09.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the worlds best trainers Climat...

Aral Balkan 'Unpacking design’s role in surveillance capitalism (and beyond)' 26.08.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the worlds best trainers Today...

Bas Raijmakers 'How do we take a global perspective on HCD while respecting local differences' 11.08.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Today on the show, is Bas Raijmakers, co-founder and creative director of Standby, a specialist design research organisation for service innovation, based in London and Ams...

Chris Coyier 'Easy to design, hard to use' 06.08.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping...

Dr Joanna Choukeir 'Leading place-based design for health and wellbeing' 06.08.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode of Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment, Melanie speaks with the new Director of Design and Innovation at theRSA.org (Royal Society of Arts) about her exp...

Rafa Sardina '15-Grammy Award Winner Producer; How technology has affected the songwriting process and creation of music, and what Design can learn from it' 30.07.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Hello and welcome to another episode of Bringing Design Closer. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing -...

Geke Van Dijk 'Design Research for meaningful change' 25.07.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Hello and welcome to another episode of BDC. My name is Gerry Scullion, and I’m a service designer, and founder of This is HCD and CEO of This is Doing - we provide live on...

Bulelani Mfaco 'Surviving on the margins of society' 16.07.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode, I speak with Buelani Mfaco, a South African asylum seeker and activist based in Ireland - he’s a spokesperson for MASI, the movement of asylum seekers in I...

Tutti Taygerly 'Design Leadership' 09.07.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Tutti Taygerly's website Tutti's writings on Medium Tutti on Twitter Tutti on LinkedIn Creators & Guests Gerry Scullion - Host Stef Murphy - Producer __________________...

Erika Hall 'Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience' 06.07.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we've ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it? Buy...

Karen Peeters 'Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story' 17.06.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet and what to do about it. What is quality when it comes to web design, web development, web ma...

Shanti Mathew 'Partnering to build better lives' 10.06.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ My name is Melanie Rayment and I'm a social designer based in Sydney, Australia, and currently a Director at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation. Moments of Change...

Rita Denny 'Reflections on changes in ethnographic praxis' 31.05.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Rita Denny applies an anthropological framework to consumer behavior across the globe, calling on linguistic, semiotic and symbolic traditions for interpreting attitudes, p...

Chris Gray 'Dealing with PTSD as a result of working as a social media content moderator for META' 22.05.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode, I speak with Chris Gray, former content moderator for CPL a service provider and content moderation organisation for many of the large tech businesses. We...

Jeff Sussna 'Services as a chain of promises' 15.05.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this epsiode, Jeff Sussana, known for introducing the global DevOps community to the importance of empathy and author of Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital...

Rebekah Murphy 'My journey from Scrum Master to UX Designer' 14.05.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Today on the show we have Rebekah Murphy a UX Designer based in Sydney, Australia. I met Rebekah early last year and met a few times in a mentorship capacity. Since then Re...

Eric Meyer 'Overcoming complexity’s invisible force' 13.05.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. Eric Meyer is a passionate advocate of designing for humanity, of l...

Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.' 10.04.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I'm chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philos...

Christine Hemphill 'Making human-centred design more human' 08.04.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ In this episode, I chat with the wonderful Christine Hemphill, MD of Open Inclusion in London, UK. We chat openly about how Design frameworks and methods are failing not on...

Senongo Akpem 'Cross-Cultural Design' 06.04.2020

We are building an independent global network of people doing human-centred work. Create an account, join our newsletter, learn, listen, connect and network - for free → https://www.thisishcd.com/signup ________________________ This episode's guest is Senongo Akpem, a designer, illustrator and the founder of Pixel Fable, a collection of interactive Afrofuturist stories and currently Design Directo...

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