Inquiries in design, complexity, & collective wisdom
The new year often finds blogs and commentators concerned with the memes and themes of the oncoming era hurtling toward us. Participating as I do in the more “abstract” design communities (e.g., experience, anthro, service design, strategic innovation, interaction, information architecture) I observe a lot of unproductive self-definition. This takes the form of pronouncements about [...]
I’m holding a physical copy of most the inspiring, wonderfully visual and tactile business book ever written and produced. Because this self-published book was designed, not so much edited, the end result is both visual spectacular and readily understandable.
Business Model Generation, by Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, and designed by Toronto’s own Alan Smith (of [...]
So we’re in an everlasting downturn and nobody is really sure what’s next in store for any industry, newspapers, broadcast, publishing, financial, automotive, retail, construction, food production, energy, healthcare. If the rational, reasonable Western world is in such a fit of uncertainty, we clearly need to be innovating our way forward.
Designers have always been up [...]
After attending a game-changing event, how do you share the experience so that a casual reader understands the impact? That, perhaps, there is a game being changed and that some projects we believed important before the event may appear less consequential after the event.
The 2009 Global Forum, Business as an Agent for World Benefit at [...]
Design is not a single discipline, it is rather a changing world of changing the world. And design thinking has evolved. But has design research evolved?
Transforming Contexts: UC DAAP talk, May 8, 2009
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While the processes and perspectives collectively referred to as “design thinking” have evolved progressively in the last 10 [...]
