Alchemy: New Zealand Design, Tech & Business
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago -Interviews with New Zealand creatives shaping design, tech & business
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Living the designer's life, while the world watches • Charli Prangley, Design & YouTube superstar
October 23, 2018 01:35 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBCharli Prangley was a student herself not that long ago, but these days she’s running her own design-centric media empire. Her YouTube channel recently topped over 100,000 subscribers! Plus she does a popular podcast called Design Life. The Design Life podcast is brilliant and I highly recommend you give it a listen. It covers everything you ever needed to know about design and working as a designer. Every episode is both entertaining and full of extremely useful insights. Charli’s You Tub...
Creating a feast for the eyes, heart and mind • Natasha Lampard, Co-founder, Webstock
July 24, 2018 23:25 - 1 hour - 25.2 MBNatasha Lampard is a major reason Webstock is one of the world’s top design and tech conferences. She explains how her passion for the web intersected with her childhood fondness for throwing parties to create a festival that attracts the most talented, inspiring leaders in the industry to come from around the world to New Zealand to share their expertise and their stories. Tash does everything with a lot of heart and soul. You experience that when you go to Webstock and it's what's so insp...
Storytelling with holographic maps • Chris Hay, founder of Locales
April 01, 2018 21:13 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBLearn about “place-based storytelling” one of the most interesting and fun jobs you never knew existed. Among many topics, we discuss: Designing cultural and tourism experiences around the world Working across print, mobile apps, games, audio, video, sculpture and architecture Augmented reality: the possibilities, limitations and challenges For more shows & details go to AlchemyPodcasts.com and follow us on Twitter & Instagram
Master class in launching a startup • Sonya Williams, co-founder of Sharesies
March 29, 2018 05:33 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBSharesies is an app that makes investing super easy and cheap, starting with as little as $5. It launched to great success just 9 months after the idea was formed. Their approach is a master class in building and growing a startup. Here are just a few reasons for their success, that Sonya and I discuss in depth: • They spent a lot of time doing customer research and market validation • They developed product-market fit before building their product • They used their research phase as a ...