“Design Thinking: A Useful Myth”: a conversation by Don Norman & Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge responds to Don Norman’s “Design Thinking: A Useful Myth” as published at Core77
d.school Bootcamp Bootleg
Stanford’s d.school just released this year’s Bootcamp Bootleg; a working document that captures some of the teaching that d.school imparts in their “Design Thinking Bootcamp,” course.
The guide outlines each mode of a human-centered design process, and describes a number of methods which may support your design thinking throughout the process.
12 Ways to Add Design Thinking to Your Project
12 Ways To Add Design Thinking Into Your Project - Tom Hulme from HackFwd on Vimeo.
HackFwd invests on “Europe’s most passionate geeks” with pre-seed money while offering them support in the form of training and coaching.
During the HackFwd Build 2.0 event, Tom Hulme from IDEO gave a presentation about 12 Ways to Add Design Thinking to Your Project, including:
- Keep challenging questions
- Think hard who do you involve; embrace diversity
- Involve partners in the process; they’re smarter than you
- Be user-centered; more than focus groups
- Look at analogous environments
- Look at extreme users, the outliers
- Think about the entire journey
- Prototype
- Think stories, not concepts
- Design everything, even non-consumer facing stuff
- Launch to learn; build it & ship it
- Iterate; act on the feedback
For more great presentations from HackFwd check their sister site Where Passion Meets Momentum.
Originally posted at Design Thinking Barcelona
Sustainability & Design Thinking @ ParisTech
Summary of a week long workshop at Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech during the course introduction to Design.
Originally posted at Design Thinking Barcelona
(Source: dthinkingbcn)
Design & Thinking, the Documentary
A group of four young Taiwanese designers have embarked on quite a mission: to speak to advocates of design thinking and document it’s expanding influence on the way we live and interact with the world. So far, they’ve interviewed Bill Moggridge (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum), Dan Formosa (co-founder Smart Design), George Bylerian (Material ConneXion), Paul Pangaro (Cybernetic Lifestyles), Richard Grefé (AIGA), Roger Martin (Rotman School of Management), and Susan Szenasy (Metropolis Magazine) and Angela Yeh (YehIDeology).
Help them finish their film by donating financially or, if you’re more musically inclined, donate a song for the soundtrack. Watch the trailer for the film after the jump and check out their KICKSTARTER!
Via DesignThinkingBarcelona.com via Core77
First Flash Build by Nodstrom Innovation Lab
Today we learned about Nodstrom Innovation Lab, a lean startup within the Fortune 500 company Nodstrom (fashion & apparel retail).
In this video, you can see how the Nodstrom Innovation Lab team performs a so-called “Flash Build”; similar to a flash mob but in this case they arrive to a retail without prior notice, deploy their material and aim to build a working app within 5 days, constantly iterating with the customers.
Via Design Thinking Barcelona (source: Eric Ries)
In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change
The book In Studio: Recipes for Systematic Change, explores the Helsinki Design Lab Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It’s particularly geared towards problems that have no single owner. Currently HDL is working on the themes: aging, extended well-being, and sustainability.
The book is available as free download, and also for purchase at selected bookstores.
Also from HDL: Ethnography Fieldguide
The Kaleidoscope Mind
The term kaleidoscope is Greek and is loosely interpreted as “an observer of beautiful forms.” So what, then, is a kaleidoscope mind? A type of mind that is agile, flexible, self-aware, and informed by a diversity of experiences. It’s a mind that is able to perceive any given situation from a multitude of perspectives at will, selecting from a rich repertoire of lenses or frameworks. A kaleidoscope mind is playful, and it must be able to see patterns, connections, and relationships that more rigid minds miss. A kaleidoscope mind can be taught.
Via: Design Thinking Barcelona (source: The Atlantic)
The Future of Sustainable Design Thinking
Steve Bishop is global lead of environmental impact at the design and business innovation firm IDEO:
There’s a need for making sustainability compelling to people in ways other than adhering to policies, avoiding regulatory encounters. This is an opportunity for growth in business, and an opportunity for positive impact. Ideas flow in a generative nature, building on one another.
Keep reading the interview at The Atlantic.
