Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Power of Ten is a show about design operating at all levels of zoom, from thoughtful detail to changes in organisation, society and the world, hosted by design leadership coach, Andy Polaine. 

My guest in this episode is Linn Vizard, one of Canada’s leading advocates of service design who co-founded Service Design Toronto in 2013.

She’s the founder of, Made Manifest (made-manifest.com/) , a service design consultancy on a mission to make services better for Canadians, whether that’s getting a blood test done, visiting City Hall to pay your property tax bill or buying the perfect luxury jewellery gift.

Linn and Andy discussed the state of Service Design in a Product world. She argues the case that service design needs to focus on services for real world outcomes — services that actually get made and out there for people to use.

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Linn

• Linn Vizard on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/linnvizard
• Made Manifest: made-manifest.com (made-manifest.com/)

Andy
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