Voice of Design

We sit down with Max-Beverton Palmer, Head of Tech and Society at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, to discuss his work helping policy-makers address challenges around the world. Max wanted you all to know that the world has clearly changed a lot since this podcast was recorded, but the political and technology principles discussed haven’t. The Institute Max works for has pivoted to tackling the crisis. You can find more here, and two reports on how we use tech to get through the current crisis: Digital Policy for a Lockdown: How Tech Can Help Us Adapt to a Radically Altered World A Price Worth Paying: Tech, Privacy and the Fight Against Covid-19 EPISODE LINKS Max on Twitter Narratives of Hate: The Spectrum of Far-right Worldviews in the UK Diversify by June Sarpong The Bretton Woods Conference, 1944 Sky parental control design

We get the band back together! Our lawyer Gabe Levine joins us to reminisce about contract negotiations past and discuss the fundamentals of negotiation for designers, or anyone, really. ----more----EPISODE LINKS Gabriel Levine | LinkedIn Matchstick | Lawyers for creative business Matchstick | Service Agreement Field Manual Running From the Law Welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism | The Guardian

Accessibility consultant and trainer Elle Waters joins us to talk about the importance of inclusive design, and why we aren’t there yet. ----more---- EPISODE LINKS Level Access Universal design - Wikipedia There's also a transcript available here.

Yonah Camacho Diamond, union organizer with the Communications Workers of America explains how unions works in the US. We discuss why tech workers might want to consider organizing and the process for doing so. ----more---- EPISODE LINKS Communications Workers of America CWA District 9 AFL-CIO

John Hanawalt, designer and co-founder of the Queer Design Club, returns to Mule to tell us about his work to celebrate queer contributions to the design industry and foster community, and especially the Queer Design Count. ----more---- EPISODE LINKS John Hanawalt ​​John on Medium Queer Design Club ​​Stitch Fix Design Census 2019 The Queer Design Count Diversity at Dropbox tweet