STORIES
We write and record stuff.
The Era of Leaving Emotion Out of Work is Over
In this video, our co-founder and CEO Anna Love discusses how bringing our whole selves (Love and All) to work can really up each other's game. It changes our sense of responsibility to each other and makes our lives more seamless and less segmented.
How We Work: Taking Back Fridays
Parker discusses Stoked’s experiments to help keep the team sane and creative during these difficult times where burnout is rampant!
Design Thinking - A Better Way of Solving Problems
Parker Gates one of the co-founders of Stoked, walks us through design thinking for problem-solving. Learn how to use design thinking methods to tackle big projects and save time, money, and energy!
Tennessee Valley Authority Looks Toward the Future with EV's
In this short video, we walk you through the first few phases of a design project we led for TVA (TN Valley Authority) to better understand EV's (electric vehicles) and their place in the future of driving! In this video, you can see the TVA team leading empathy work, unpacking their interviews and synthesizing what they learned, brainstorming some big ideas, then building and testing low fidelity prototypes with potential users to gain feedback and a better understanding for the next phase of this project.
What Is Design Thinking?
In this video, Stoked co-founders Anna Love and Parker Gates explain design thinking by walking through the most common 5-modes and providing real-world scenarios where a popular organization used this mode/method to achieve something big!
Design Thinking in 70 Seconds
Basically a music video that shows design thinking and design culture in action.
Using Design Thinking in Higher Education
This is an interview with Mark Blegen PH.D., Dean of Health Sciences at St. Catherine University. This is the story of Mark implementing Human-Centered Design in his classroom and co-designing the class with his students. Student-centered education in action!
Using Design to Transform Child Welfare
Katie Miller, the Chief Innovation Officer from Alia takes us through their journey of applying design thinking to redesign the child welfare system.
Work Sucks
In a wonderful written piece by Stoked's Head of Culture, Barbara Patchen relays her personal experience with the role work has played in her life. Starting with how she observed her parents relationship with work, to her present day idea of what work means in her life.