088 – Designing Success with Tracy Hazzard
Designing Success with Tracy Hazzard
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In This Episode
The stories behind these curious juxtapositions are waiting for you in today’s podcast. Welcome to the Table Top Inventing podcast. I am Steve Kurti, aka “the Mad Scientist”, and I’m pretty jazzed about something that happened this last week. We just finished up our first Inventor Camp of 2016 in Apple Valley, CA, last Thursday, but on Wednesday while we were in full swing, I had the coolest thing happen. One of the challenges this year involves binary numbers, byte conversions, and ASCII tables. If you’re a techno geek, you’ll get those references, but if you’re not, those are terms for how the data moves around in your computer, cell phone, and the internet. I wanted the kids to see under the hood so-to-speak and see that things aren’t really as mysterious as they seem. I was talking to Lilli and Trevor who were tasked with programming up a little solution for encoding letters and numbers into binary, and Lilli was telling me about how her program worked. She was pretty excited that she could look at the 8-bit represented by the LED lights and look up the letter on a chart. I turned to Trevor to ask him if he knew what they needed to do next. He answered, “Yup. I’ll get to that in a minute, but right now… MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE!” It was so awesome and so funny, I had a fit of laughter on the spot. That is what I love to see: Kids with their imagination on fire. Today’s guest, Tracy Hazzard, also loves to see kids with their imagination on fire. Tracy is the CEO of Hazz Design Consulting, a design company headquartered in Orange County, CA. Let’s find out how Tracy is igniting the imagination. Tracy said my favorite phrase “Successful Failure”. We have a dozen different ways to say this same thing: “failing forward”, “Failure is the first step to success”, and a host of others. The basic idea is to stop being so afraid of being wrong or of making a mistake along the way. Anything big requires learning, and true learning always starts by being bad at something before being really good at it. If you want your kids to experience “successful failure”, check out Inventor Camp at TTInvent.com. Let’s Ignite more Imagination.
Parents AND students both tell us, “We can’t believe how much learning happened in just 4 days!”We want to help you and your kids create the future! |
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Guest Bio
Tracy Hazzard is CEO of design firm Hazz Design and co-designer of 250+ consumer products bought everyday generating almost $1 billion for her clients. Through her Inc. magazine column, By Design she pushes companies of all sizes to strategically and tactically design in success and accelerate business growth through innovation. Tracy cohosts the WTFFF?! 3D Printing Podcast, the start point for the next industrial revolution. Tracy has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Textile Design and has worked directly for Malcolm Baldridge award-winning companies like Milliken & Herman Miller as well as consulted with or developed designs in the US, Europe, Canada and Asia for well-known brands like Martha Stewart Living and Costco. Her expertise has been featured in magazines such as Working Woman, Wired, Interiors and Fortune Small Business, as well as authored articles on color and design featured in ICON and Archi-Tech magazines. |
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TeacherMs. Mauthe she was the first Ms. I ever came in contact with and the first woman I knew who flew planes. Interestingly enough though, it was a painting of her in an art class that only occurred once a month that showed my potential in art and design. |
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MakeWe make things every day right now we are working on educational examples of the potential for 3d printed products that don’t look like plastic junk. |
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LearnI am bolstering my selling skills through a book and online course called Velocity Selling. We have to sell ourselves, our projects and our wares every day, so why not be great at it? |
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