Uploaded November 2025 | 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.

In this episode Andy speaks to Carissa Carter, a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school (http://d.school) . She is the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and the co-author of Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future. Carissa teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple design awards.

Links

Carissa
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- Assembling Tomorrow book site: https://dschool.stanford.edu/book-collections/assembling-tomorrow
- Carissa Carter on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/carissalcarter
- Scott Doorley on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/scottdoorley
- Armando Veve online: levineleavitt.com/artist/armando-veve

Andy
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- Website: polaine.com
- Newsletter: pln.me/nws
- Podcast: pln.me/p10
- Design Leadership Coaching: polaine.com/coaching
- Courses: courses.polaine.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/apolaine
- Bluesky: https://andypolaine.bsky.social
- YouTube: youtube.com/@apolaine