Surya Vanka - Wielding the Transformative Power of Design

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?

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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.

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Find Surya here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suryavanka/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/suryavanka

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