PRISM

PRISM

Whipsaw Founder and Principal Designer Dan Harden has been a prominent figure in the field of design for over 25 years. He has brought more than 1000 products to market, won over 300 design awards and been granted over 500 patents. Harden will now funnel his experience and knowledge into our new Whipsaw podcast, PRISM. Just like a glass prism that reveals the colors hidden inside white light, this podcast will uncover the true vision, purpose and people behind the innovations that impact our world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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October 29, 2024 45 mins
How do designers navigate the evolving landscape of sustainability and circularity in product design? Join Courtney Der and Mike Elam as they explore how legislation, material selection, and implementation challenges are shaping the future of the tech industry.

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Join Dan Harden and Anne Van Itallie, as they reflect on 25 years of Whipsaw.

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What are agencies looking for when hiring industrial designers, and how should you tailor your portfolio to stand out? In this episode, Anson Cheung and Cole Derby share practical tips on navigating the competitive design landscape, and how to use storytelling to highlight your skills. 

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How do designers and artists overcome creative block? In the second episode of office hours, Dan discusses tips for finding inspiration when you’re in a creative rut, embracing failure as part of the process, and thinking abstractly to find unique solutions.



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Humanoid robots, transparent TVs, and the latest in VR technologies. Fresh from their return from CES, Anne Van Itallie and Dan Harden take listeners on a deep dive of the latest trends in tech. 



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What is the future of residential and smart home technology, and what's emerging today? In this episode, Whipsaw's Director of Experience Design, Walker Harden, and Director of Industrial Design, Cole Derby, discuss the latest trends in smart home technology and related project experiences.

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A big question in the realm of design today is whether artificial intelligence is a friend or foe. Dan Harden and design visionary guest, Branko Lukic, explore the profound implications of AI for designers and the remarkable power of meditation in fostering a creative mindset.

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Office Hours is a new segment on PRISM where Whipsaw CEO and Principal Designer, Dan Harden, answers questions submitted by our listeners about industrial design, business, technology, or current topics of discussion in the greater design community.


Partake in a future Office Hours episode by submitting a question at whipsaw.com/prismofficehours.


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How does design relate to the current state of climate change? Dan Harden, Jonsara Ruth, and Rico Ruffino evaluate the environmental impacts of design and how designers can play a role in creating a more sustainable world.

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Designers are often trapped in their own design thinking principles but Cross-Cultural Design provides a guideline that all designers can embody in their work. Dan Harden and guest Lorraine Justice, Design Researcher, Speaker, Author, and Educator, touch on the importance of considering diverse cultures in their work.

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Generative Design has been a hot topic of conversation for several years now, but its full range of capabilities, and how designers will use it in their everyday lives, isn’t widely understood. In this episode of PRISM, Dan Harden sits down with the Head of HumanFX Research & Design for Alexa Devices at Amazon, Joanna Peña-Bickley, to get an inside look at this field of limitless possibilities.


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October 4, 2021 63 mins

The pandemic caused us all to readjust our values and focus on what truly matters. It also forced us to alter how we communicate and innovate.

In this special episode of Prism, Dan Harden moderates a discussion with founders Fred Bould and Caroline Flagiello on how we can use the lessons from this experience to create an exciting new era of Design. The panel reveals:

  • How to make the most of our newly realigned values, the wo...
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California’s Bay Area is one of the world’s epicenters of design, but this is a fairly recent phenomenon. Prior to the 1980s, you had to travel to Paris, London, Milan, and New York to find good design. Suddenly, this region entered a golden design era marked by innovative collaborations, technology booms, and the emergence of a vernacular around design thinking. Now, nearly 40 years later, we have more design professionals in the ...

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This week on the PRISM podcast, Dan Harden and Mike Chapman reveal the process of creating the By Design TV series for a mainstream audience. Chapman also discusses expanding the popular California show into America by Design where Harden will judge the nation’s best innovations.

 

Episode Transcript

Dan Harden 0:04

Hello, and welcome to PRISM. PRISM is a design oriented podcast hosted by me...

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Dan Harden deliberates with futurist and Stuffocation Author James Wallman on what matters most in design today. They dissect a range of issues, from how the pandemic pushed us into an experience economy to how we can design more meaningful experience-driven innovations that value time above materialism.

 




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Hello, and welcome to PRISM. PRISM is a design-ori...

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In our first episode of PRISM, Whipsaw CEO Dan Harden interviews Author and Designer Paul Hatch about the adjustments designers have made to their process and thinking throughout the pandemic, and the unexpected ways users have interacted with design. Paul explores the psychology of these new users and forecasts what’s ahead for the design field. 

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April 22, 2021 1 min

Whipsaw Founder and Principal Designer Dan Harden has been a prominent figure in the field of design for over 25 years. He has brought more than 1000 products to market, won over 300 design awards and been granted over 500 patents.

Harden will now funnel his experience and knowledge into our new Whipsaw podcast, PRISM. Just like a glass prism that reveals the colors hidden inside white light, this podcast will uncover the true visio...

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