Surya Vanka brings his hallmark energy to this conversation about the power of design, the challenges the field faces, and how he’s using Design Swarms to ignite creativity. Highlights include: ⭐ Why is your mission, “to unleash the design thinker in every person”? ⭐ How is the democratisation of design helping and hurting the field? ⭐ What can seasoned designers learn from design’s growth? ⭐ What is keeping people’s creativity leashed? ⭐ Why is inclusive design important? ====== Who is Surya Vanka? Surya is a design innovator with over 25 years of hands-on experience bringing the design of physical and digital products to life. And through Authentic Design, the studio he founded in 2014, he is on a mission to unlock the creative potential of everyone on the planet. One of the ways Surya is doing that is through Design Swarms - a democratic design approach - used by organisations like the Clinton Global Initiative, the United Nations, and Global Humanitarian Lab, to help tackle a variety of wicked problems, including the Opioid Epidemic, Domestic Violence, Water Borne Diseases, Digital Equity, and Ocean Pollution. Before founding Authentic Design, Surya was a Director of User Experience at Microsoft, based at the Redmond campus. There, he led multiple design teams, including the enterprise-wide design excellence team, and was a key contributor to Microsoft’s experience-led renewal. ====== Find Surya here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suryavanka/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/suryavanka ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

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