Make Life Better. By Design
A podcast about design and how it can make life better, for all of us.
Make Life Better. By Design
Latest Episodes
Designing life: Chemistry and Leadership
My guest for this episode believes that people are the important ingredient in successful enterprises. He also happens to be a chemistry graduate and vociferous advocate for making things i.e. manufacturing.Dean Morgan talks us through h...
S2 Episode 10: Show Me the Way to Go Home
Maps and diagrams: representations of reality that can make life better. Strangely, the greatest accuracy or truth to life does not necessarily make life better.In this episode we look at how our perception affects our interpretation of ...
Series 2 Episode 09: Design, Then and Now
The aim of many designers is to create timeless work. Whilst aiming for a long design life is admirable, we shouldn't get hooked up on trying to avoid the time in which we live and work.This episode explains that good design can be...
Maintenance vs Sustainability
To talk of sustainability without a timeframe is meaningless. But nowadays things are labelled sustainable without any reference to duration.Sustainable forever applies to a very select catalogue. The best we can do is aim for as long a ...
Series 2 Episode 07: Knowledge is Power
Knowledge, Learning and Better Choices was the title for this issue suggested by the AI elves. Perhaps I should listen to then next time.Making life better by design is about making choices and taking decisions. The more you know a...