Listen "Less (Bad) Design with Matthew Manos"
Episode Synopsis
A conversation with Matthew Manos, founder and managing director of verynice, a design strategy practice that gives half of its services away for free to non-profit organizations. Matthew details the work he does with his company as well as one of his toolkits, Less (Bad) Design: A Toolkit For Ethical Ideation, that challenges designers to consider the ethical impact of their designs.
With a portfolio of work that has reached millions of people across the globe, verynice’s client experience spans 1,000+ brands including the American Heart Association, Apple, the City of Los Angeles, Disney Imagineering, Google, REI, and the United Nations. We will talk to him about his company, his ambitions for the future and the idea of a toolkit he published to eradicate bad design.
With a portfolio of work that has reached millions of people across the globe, verynice’s client experience spans 1,000+ brands including the American Heart Association, Apple, the City of Los Angeles, Disney Imagineering, Google, REI, and the United Nations. We will talk to him about his company, his ambitions for the future and the idea of a toolkit he published to eradicate bad design.
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