Episode 303: Talking Human-Centered Design

What options do we have in our toolkit as policymakers when it comes to policy design? Are the tools government typically chooses to wield the most effective ones? If not, how can we get government to invest in a new approach to policy design? In episode three of our series on policy design and implementation, Colleen Pulawski (MPP '21) speaks with Brandon Greene of the Oakland Civic Design Lab and Michael Ford in the Oakland Department of Transportation about using human-centered design to restructure government policies and services. Spencer Bowen (MPP '20) joins in the conversation to help unpack what we, as policy students, should take away from this application of human-centered design. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/episode-303-talking-human-centered-design-hcd