Shows
Designing for EveryoneInclusive Product and Service Design Nothing about us without us. What does that mean? Well, in the case of product and service design, it means that designers shouldn’t be designing “for” the most marginalized but instead “with” them. Why do toy designers design “toys for girls” and “toys for boys”? Why are products that address the needs of people with disabilities an exception rather than the rule? Why are the most marginalized people not at the decision-making table when products and services are conceptualized and launched? In this episode, we ask product designers Reginé Gilbert, Jahan Mantin and Vanessa Raponi about what inclusive product, service and...2024-01-171h 03
In The Arena by TechArenaInclusive Design with Project Inkblot's Jahan MantinTechArena host Allyson Klein chats with Project Inkblot co-founder Jahan Mantin about what it means to be a designer and how to build inclusive design practices.2023-09-1434 min
Wellspringwords: The PodcastBeing Inside Your Own Process + Focusing on Nourishment with Jahan MantinOn this episode of Wellspringwords: The Podcast, Nkem speaks with Jahan Mantin, Co-founder of Project Inkblot, on the power of being in your personal process. Through the discussion, the two share notes about the importance of remaining connected to the heart when in any creation process, keeping life curious and exploratory, and walking a liberatory path - no matter the circumstance. We hope this conversation helps to expand your vision and support you on your journey of wholeness. Enjoy! ...2023-06-0257 min
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 92: Solidarity & North Stars - A Conversation for 2022It is a special end of year episode and Philip is joined by several former guests and friends of The Deep Dive.
Each contributor answers two questions about building solidarity and community and their “North Star” for 2022.
It is an opportunity to listen to a diverse gathering of thinker and leaders sharing their ideas and inspirations as we head into a new year.
Jahan Marin
Lina Srivastava
Anjali Enjeti
Tim Stock
Alberto Barreiro
Ed Morrison
Rebecca Taylor
Francesca Birks
Dowshan Humzah
Marcela Sabino
Sanjay Khanna2021-12-3036 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
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