Episode 5 - Steve Brown, Strategic Designer

In episode five of Design Thinking Masterclass, we talk with Strategic Designer, Steve Brown. Steve shares his journey transitioning to design thinking from a customer contact background and how trusting in the process has allowed him to lead design thinking approaches to solve complex challenges for some of Australia's largest companies and disruptive startups. Steve shares his advice on navigating the process of design thinking from research through to implementation and winning executive support for the change.

Episode: 4

Topics: Case studies in Design Thinking, learning Design Thinking, leading design thinking, practicing design thinking, human centred design, hcd, winning executive support.

Guests: Steve Brown, Strategic Designer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/austevebrown/

Host: Mike Stevenson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikestevensonmba/

Produced by: The Healthy Organisation www.healthyorg.com.au

Find out more about the MBA Masterclass in Design Thinking:

https://healthyorg.com.au/home-page/learn/mba-masterclass-in-design-thinking/

Find out more about Deakin University's range of degree stackable Masterclasses:

https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/find-a-course/short-courses/stackable-short-courses

Recommendations:

Mural Templates - https://www.mural.co/templates

Miro Templates - https://miro.com/templates/

Dovetail for User research - https://dovetailapp.com

IDEOU - Designing Strategy - https://www.ideou.com/products/designing-strategy

Book - Non-bullshit innovation by David Rowan - https://www.booktopia.com.au/non-bullshit-innovation-david-rowan/book/9781787631199.html

Blog - Benedict Evans - https://www.ben-evans.com

Blog - Stratechery - https://stratechery.com

The Hustle - https://thehustle.co

Trends - https://trends.co

Volunteering with uni startup incubators like UTS Hatchery & Deakin Spark

https://spark.deakin.edu.au