DC163 Interview: John Leavitt On Industrial Design

Design Critique: Products for People

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John Leavitt, Senior Industrial Designer at Intelligent Product Solutions, joins Timothy Keirnan for a conversation about industrial design, using two firefighting products as a starting point. Besides the two case studies, we talk about general design process and philosophies, methods, education recommendations, and our ambitions for a world in which UX includes respect for users' privacy and security as a selling point.

00:00 Introduction 03:30 Design Process 08:06 Self Contained Breathing Apparatus case study 19:45 Fire Truck Inventory Feature case study 36:45 How does John recommend people learn industrial design and nurture their careers 40:30 Our dream of UX for any product having a main feature of protecting the user's/customer's privacy and security by default 48:50 John's favorite design resources

Purism is one company that is making privacy and security of both software and hardware a primary selling point of their product designs.

John's employer is at https://intelligentproduct.solutions/

John's contact info is https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleavit/

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