IxDA Stories

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Interaction 21 team member Poppe Guthrie sits down with Day 3 Keynote Mel MacCoubrey, an Associate Creative Director with Cloud Chamber, currently working on the latest instalment of the critically-acclaimed Bioshock series.

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Alexis sits down with Catarina Tsang, Scher Foord, and Kate Dixon, all three of whom are Design Directors at Compass, a Presenting Sponsor of Interaction21 and innovative digital real estate platform. 

Special thanks to Compass for their support of the Interaction 21 Conference!

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community.

In this episode, Poppe Guthrie sits down with Ariel Muller, the Managing Director for Asia with Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainability non-profit that works to re-design some of the key systems that underpin our world. 

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Alexis sits down with Claire-Lise, Hany, and Ethan, leaders of the experience design team behind Adobe XD's "XD Immersive" workshops, to talk about how they approach making a virtual workshop as exciting and effective as an in-person session.

Special thanks to Adobe for their continued support of the Interaction Design Association, including the Interaction 21 Conference and World Interaction Design Day. 

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Alexis sits down with Eddie Ishak, the Head of User Experience for Financial Products at Bloomberg, Interaction 21's Presenting Sponsor, to talk about how the Bloomberg team weathered the pandemic and came out stronger thanks to design thinking and great collaboration.

Special thanks to Bloomberg for their continued support of the Interaction conference series, which this year underpinned the 1:1 ticket matching program, making this year's conference the most accessible ever!

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Alexis sits down with Day 2 keynote Odile Joanette, an Indigenous Canadian activist, creator, and member of the Innue community of Pessamit who works to promote Indigenous resurgence and increase Indigenous social and societal participation.

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community.

In this episode, Interaction 21 team member Poppe Guthrie sits down with Day 2 keynote Webster, a Quebec-born hip-hop artist and historian of Senegalese and Quebecois descent, widely regarded as a pioneer of the Quebec hip-hop movement for the past 20 years.

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Interaction 21 team member Poppe Guthrie sits down with Day 3 Keynote David Brin, an astrophysicist and award-winning author of science fiction novels, including The Postman, Earth, and Existence.

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In this episode, Interaction 21 team member Poppe Guthrie sits down with Day 1 Keynote Aza Raskin, the cofounder of Earth Species Project, an open-source collaborative nonprofit dedicated to decoding animal communication and co-host for the popular podcast Your Undivided Attention.

Join hosts Elaine Matthias and Alexis Morin as they interview design luminaries, thought leaders, and experts to showcase the best of the IxDA community. In our inaugural series, we will showcase keynote speakers and experts from industry partners of the upcoming yearly global interaction design conference.