Shows
MazshowHMW: Accelerating Digital Product SprintsReady to compress months of product development into a single week? In Episode 5 of "HMW: Turning Problems into Possibilities," hosts explore digital product sprints—the high-velocity, time-boxed innovation process that's transforming how teams build and test new features.Learn the five-day sprint framework popularized by Google Ventures: Understand, Sketch, Decide, Prototype, and Validate. Through a detailed case study with Google Lens product manager Priya Kumar, discover how her team went from "How might we let users instantly query any object through their camera?" to a tested prototype in just five days—reducing decision time...
2025-07-2916 min
MazshowHWM: From Ideas to ActionYou’ve generated a flood of creative solutions, but now what? In Episode 4 of "HMW: Turning Problems into Possibilities," hosts guide you through the essential steps to evaluate, select, and bring your best ideas to life.This episode tackles the art of prioritization: how to move from a wall of sticky notes to a focused shortlist using tools like dot voting and the Impact/Effort Matrix. Get practical advice on facilitating fair team decision-making, avoiding the common pitfalls of groupthink and indecision, and surfacing surprising gems others might overlook.Hosts then di...
2025-07-2835 min
MazshowHMW: From Question to Idea, Unleashing Creative SolutionsHow do you transform a powerful "How Might We" (HMW) question into a wave of creative, actionable solutions? In Episode 3 of "HMW: Turning Problems into Possibilities," we unlock proven strategies to supercharge your idea generation.Learn why traditional brainstorming often falls flat—and discover smarter approaches like Brainwriting (silent, simultaneous idea generation), Crazy 8s (rapid visual sketching), and the SCAMPER method for remixing existing solutions. We walk you through each tool with concrete, real-life examples, showing how they work in practice for challenges big and small.Whether you're an innovation leader, pa...
2025-07-2720 min
SEEKING PLAYTroy Innocent - Future Play LabSome people see a city as streets, buildings, and infrastructure. Troy Innocent sees it as a playground.A BMX-riding, LEGO-city-building, world-maker from childhood, Troy never stopped playing. But instead of keeping it to himself, he turned his playful instinct into The Future Play Lab.At RMIT, Troy is transforming how people interact with public spaces through speculative design, urban play, Indigenous knowledge and augmented reality experiences like 64 Ways of Being. From risky play in childhood to playful interventions in cityscapes, Troy and The Future Play Lab are proving that play isn’t just fun...
2025-03-1250 min
SEEKING PLAYKatrin Heimann - Micro-Phenomenology & PlayHello there!We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design We're passionate about Play and provide online, in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to teams worldwide. We’re also training across Ireland and the UK www.howmightwe.design/lego-serious-play-ireland IntroductionHave you ever visited a museum and felt like you had to tiptoe around, afraid to touch anything? Ever felt like education was about me...
2025-02-1848 min
SEEKING PLAYSarah Kuhn - Thinking With ThingsEver count using your fingers as an adult? Ever struggle to articulate an idea until you sketch it out on a whiteboard? Ever discuss 'stakeholder relationships' during lunch by sliding around the table condiments? Ever moved Lego objects around to scenario test project implementation? Ever considered how ‘playing around’ with objects helps you ‘play around’ with ideas?
Maybe we’ve overlooked that these everyday gestures highlight our fundamental human tendency to think with our body and think with things.
If your organisation is making decisions that affect corporate budgets in the multi-millions and multi-billions, wouldn't 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 make sense?
And if we spend roughly 13 years in primary a...
2025-01-131h 18
SEEKING PLAYSunni Brown - Doodle Revolution & GamestormingLEGO Alert!
Around the 50-minute mark, Sunni busts out LEGO to answer some questions.
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
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2024-08-091h 01
SEEKING PLAYMichael Schrage - Serious PlayHello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
Episode 11
Many of us experience Tsundoku, the phenomenon of eagerly buying books but letting them pile up around our...
2024-06-271h 08
SEEKING PLAYMark Anderson - Play in Predictive MindsLEGO Literacy Alert
Nope, we didn’t ask Marc to answer any questions using Lego, but he did complete some Madlibs on Mural at 59 mins
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https...
2024-05-301h 11
SEEKING PLAYDara Simkin - Culture HeroLEGO Literacy Alert
Nope, we didn’t ask Dara to answer any questions using Lego.
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
Episode Nine
2024-05-241h 04
SEEKING PLAYLynda Shaw - Your Brain Is BossLEGO Literacy Alert
Nope, we didn’t ask Lynda is answer any questions using Lego.
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
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2024-04-1647 min
Future Learning Design PodcastIn Search of Play - A Conversation with Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan HealyThis week’s episode is a conversation about the importance of play and playfulness with the fantastic Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. Based on their extensive research and expertise of the Lego Serious Play method, Jane and Ronan are successfully reintroducing play to learning and work environments as an invitation to qualitatively different modes and types of experiences for teams. We also talk about the way in which play using boundary objects such as Lego, can enable inclusive learning environments.
Ronan and Jane are the Co-founders of How Might We, a Limerick-based design con...
2024-03-0339 min
SEEKING PLAYSusan Hrach - Minding BodiesLEGO Literacy Alert!
Around the 41-minute mark, Susan busts out LEGO to answer some questions.
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
2024-03-0147 min
SEEKING PLAYEmer Ring & Lisha O'Sullivan - Revolutionising Education Through PlayLEGO Literacy Alert!
Around the 38-minute mark, Emer and Lisha use LEGO to answer some questions.
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
2024-02-201h 05
SEEKING PLAYSavannah Vize - The Eco-Citizen's PlaybookMural Madlibs Alert!
At 37.15, Savannah playfully answers some questions using Mural and some SEEKING PLAY mad-libs
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the Irish design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
Episode 5
Hear ye! Hear ye!
All hail the Jest...
2024-02-0842 min
SEEKING PLAYPat Kane - The Play EthicLEGO Literacy Alert!
Around the 1.20 mark, Pat uses LEGO to answer some questions. It's definitely worth watching!
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
2024-01-291h 32
SEEKING PLAYDi Gammage - Playful AwakeningsLEGO Literacy Alert!
Around the 1.23 mark, Di uses LEGO to answer some questions!
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Hello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
Episode Thre...
2024-01-261h 32
SEEKING PLAYProfessor Christian Montag - Affective NeuroscienceHello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
Episode Two
Christian had to be our first guest, considering he worked closely with the late Jaak Panksepp.
2023-11-2150 min
SEEKING PLAYIntro Episode - Hello from Jane and RonanHello there!
We’re Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. We’re a husband and wife team and co-founders of the service design studio How Might We - www.howmightwe.design
We're passionate about Play and provide online and in-house training in the LEGO Serious Play method to:
1) Third-level Educators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Ed_Innovators
2) Organisational Innovators - https://bit.ly/LSP_Org_Innovators
We're delighted to have you as a listener. Please get in touch with us if you would like to be a guest or have...
2023-10-2534 min
101 Hacks - Kleine Tipps für mehr Zufriedenheit im privaten und beruflichen Leben#8 - Innovationsprozess im Alltag - Wir machen deine Hochzeit unvergesslich!Heute zeigen euch Adam Egger und Peter Dern eine einfache Methode, die euch hilft schnell viele Ideen zu generieren und die Fehler, die dabei gemacht werden: How Might We (HMW).
Am Ende zeigen sie die Effizienz aller bisher gezeigten Innovations-Methoden an einem greifbaren Beispiel - einer Hochzeit.
#innovation #madeingermany #designthinking #101innovationhacks #howmightwe #kreativität
2022-05-0330 min
Basadur Innovation Talks‘how might we?’ - interview with Dr Min BasadurIn this interview, Dr. Min Basadur discussed the origin of the phrase ‘how might we?’ and provided insight on structured creative problem-solving. #Diversity, #innovation, #creativity, #ProblemOwnership, #ChallengeMapping, #brainstorming #DivergentThinking, #ProblemFraming, #howmightwe
2021-09-1216 min
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry ScullionDr Jane Hession & Ronan Healy 'The Power of Play'Enjoy what we do at This is HCD? Support us and help us grow by becoming a Premium Listener (https://premium.thisishcd.com)
In this episode, I speak with the Founder of How Might We, a Limerick-based design consultancy. We speak about how they are using Lego Serious Play to help enable bigger and more meaningful conversations for their clients.
Shownotes
Web: www.howmightwe.ieEmail: jane@howmightwe.ie / ronan@howmightwe.ieLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-might-we-service-designTwitter: https://twitter.com/howmightweInstagram: https://www.instagram.com...
2020-09-0938 min
Bringing Design CloserDr Jane Hession & Ronan Healy 'The Power of Play'Enjoy what we do at This is HCD? Support us and help us grow by becoming a Premium Listener (https://premium.thisishcd.com)
In this episode, I speak with the Founder of How Might We, a Limerick-based design consultancy. We speak about how they are using Lego Serious Play to help enable bigger and more meaningful conversations for their clients.
Shownotes
Web: www.howmightwe.ieEmail: jane@howmightwe.ie / ronan@howmightwe.ieLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/how-might-we-service-designTwitter: https://twitter.com/howmightweInstagram: https://www.instagram.com...
2020-09-0938 min