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Thomas Girard is an Oxford-educated Canadian design scholar, TEDx and Sorbonne speaker, and host of the UNIQUEWAYS podcast, which has featured over 250 global creatives including Don Norman and Debbie Millman. His frameworks, UX Now and Unique Ways of Prototyping, are shaping how design is taught and practiced. A recipient of multiple Emerging Scholar Awards, he is also the author of Son of Greg Girard, a memoir bridging family legacy and design innovation.


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Thomas Girard is a Vancouver-born design thinker and educator known for challenging convention in user experience and creative practice. A graduate of Oxford and Simon Fraser University, his teaching spans institutions including Emily Carr University, VanArts, and Tamwood. His widely-adopted frameworks, UX Now and Unique Ways of Prototyping, are documented in a new white paper and a Skillshare course.

As the host of UNIQUEWAYS, a long-running podcast featuring over 250 guests such as Don Norman, Ivy Ross, and Debbie Millman, Thomas brings global voices into dialogue with personal narrative. He has spoken at TEDx and the Sorbonne, and his writing appears in The BC Review and Business Insider. His memoir, Son of Greg Girard, explores generational creativity through the lens of his upbringing as the son of the renowned photographer Greg Girard.


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Thomas Girard is an Oxford-educated Canadian design scholar, UX consultant, speaker, and author. Known for bridging tactile innovation with digital futures, he is the creator of the UX Now and Unique Ways of Prototyping frameworks, which have shaped classroom pedagogy and UX practice across multiple continents. He has taught at institutions such as Emily Carr University, VanArts, and Tamwood, and his white paper UX Now: Tactile Innovation in a Digital World captures his current thinking.

Thomas is the host of the UNIQUEWAYS podcast, a global interview series where over 250 notable guests — including John Maeda, Ellen Lupton, Karim Rashid, and Jonathan Barnbrook — have explored their personal paths through 20 recurring questions.

A TEDx and Sorbonne speaker, Thomas has presented at international conferences and festivals, where he merges his lived experiences with scholarly insight. His public thought leadership spans podcasting, publication, and public speaking. His memoir, Son of Greg Girard, brings a designer’s eye to personal legacy and family history.

He has received multiple Emerging Scholar Awards and fellowships, and his work has been featured by Business Insider, TED.com, and more. With a background that includes working at Lenovo’s Innovation Design Centre and mentoring over 40 students in formal and informal settings, he’s become a voice at the intersection of creativity, research, and education.
