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Tech Wrap QueenDesigning Equity Programs | Founders of Project InkBlotWrap Session 31 Design & Culture: Jahan Mantin and Boyuan Gao join the Royal Court for an in-depth discussion on how they are helping leaders, organizations, and individuals co-design a more equitable world. As the founders of Project Inkblot, a BIPOC-owned and operated company that provides transformational design education, programs & support through Inkblot Design™ framework (formerly Design for Diversity™ or D4D) - their team equips people to become co-designers who with intentionality build for equitable futures.
In this wrap session, we learn how the two New Yorkers' and their creative paths working at magazines brought them together and how th...2023-05-0131 min
The Deep DiveEpisode 80: Project Inkblot and Reimaging Design: A Conversation w/Boyuan Gao and Jahan MantinIn this conversation, Philip talks to Boyuan Gao and Jahan Mantin, the co-founders of Project Inkblot a design education consultancy that partners with companies to build equitable products, services, and content. They discuss their origin story, what motivates them to re-think design, how they built their Design for Diversity (D4D) model and why designing “with” rather than “for” is a revolutionary act.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop: The Metaphors We Live By – George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
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Design is EverywhereDesigning With: Moving Towards an Equitable Future for AllHow can design be a tool for impactful change? In this episode, Sam meets with Boyuan Gao, a designer and futurist who is partnering with companies to create equitable products, services, content, and experiences. Boyuan talks about how she and Jahan Mantin founded Project Inkblot and how the core of their work centers around the “why.” Later on in the show, they are joined by Antionette Carroll, the President and CEO of the Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. Antionette shares what led her to her...2021-06-2441 min
I Make a LivingPutting The Band Back Together- Carl SmithWhen Carl Smith’s eleven-year-old daughter started getting into classic rock like Joan Jett, she asked her dad how he wanted to be remembered. Carl had run his own digital agency nGen Works for twelve years, but his daughter’s questions about legacy made him realize his true passion was boosting other leaders into the stratosphere. “If you’re a leader, you probably didn’t go to school for that,” he says and gave himself the goal of figuring out how to help people in leadership roles unlock their potential. The first Bureau of Digital event was a couple of d...2021-05-1027 min
Design BetterJahan Mantin and Boyuan Gao: Designing for diversityShow notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/designing-for-diversityIn today’s episode, we talk with Boyuan Gao and Jahan Mantin—the founders of Project Inkblot—who have built a practical framework that can help everyone design for diversity, and can also be a guide for challenging conversations.We discuss how they see design as an opportunity to bridge the divide and bring people into the conversation about designing products and services that address everyone’s needs, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or religion. We also talk to them about their definition of intent vs. impact, and how to c...2020-06-1147 min
THRIVE: Your Agency ResourceEP 71: How Will We Design the Future?, with Boyuan GaoThe post EP 71: How Will We Design the Future?, with Boyuan Gao appeared first on Kelly Campbell.2020-05-0719 min
THRIVE Podcast: Your Agency Resource | Hosted by Kelly CampbellEP 71: How Will We Design the Future?, with Boyuan GaoThe post EP 71: How Will We Design the Future?, with Boyuan Gao appeared first on Kelly Campbell.2020-05-0700 min
The Bureau BriefingEpisode 065: The Truth is Right at This MomentRace, gender, sexual orientation, diversity, inclusion…These terms can elicit different feelings in different people, from a sense of hope and progress to fear and discomfort. Viewed through the lens "diversity is a design process," conversations become softer, more open and accessible. Diversity becomes an opportunity worth investing in, a collaborative effort to design products and services that are more effective, efficient and people-centered.
Design for Diversity™ is the brainchild of Boyuan Gao and Jahan Mantin, founders of the New York-based consultancy, Project Inkblot. Boyuan and Jahan developed the Design for Diversity™ framework to help companies embed divers...2018-06-0731 min