Advertise on podcast: Conté Expert Series

Dr. Michael McGreevy, urban researcher and lecturer at the Southgate Institute for Health, Society, and Equity at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, examines how local government leaders can do a better job of designing and planning cities that meet the needs of all constituents and how citizen participation in the planning process is essential to realizing the long term vision of a city.

Our expert for this month's podcast is Denise Pilar is a world recognized user-experience researcher, presenter, and author. We were fortunate to discuss a wide variety of topics with Denise around user-experience research, but a core idea throughout the discussion is that user-experience research is a powerful tool that can help local governments better understand the citizens they serve and be able to adapt in times of crisis.

For our inaugural podcast episode, we speak with Juan-Carlos Fernandez, a world renowned brand designer and consultant. Juan-Carlos explores his experience creating the visual identity system for the Mexican Federal government amongst other projects. We discuss the core idea of identity and how governments establish specific identities with the society they serve. It's forty five minutes we're sure you'll find interesting and insightful.