Transhuman. Fancy limbs. How to Build a Collective Intelligence Platform to Crowdsource Almost Anything. Introduction The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence recently published an important overview of the theory and mechanisms behind successful crowdsourcing efforts.
Their report, called “Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence“, can be found here. Mind. Innovation, Design & Thinking. From Google Ventures: 4 Steps For Combining The Hacker Way With Design Thinking. Jake Knapp is like the middle-school teacher everyone should have had.
Tall, with clear blue plastic glasses, he holds a classroom-clock-sized timer like a football while explaining the first activity of the day: an exercise called "Crazy 8s" that involves drawing eight different solutions, with 40 seconds for each, to address one design challenge. On a whiteboard nearby, he’s sketched out a five-step game plan for redesigning the Blue Bottle Coffee website. Below the first box in the schedule, labeled “Understand,” there’s an unsure emoticon. It turns to a smiley face by the next step, “Diverge," sticks its tongue out for “Decide,” sports a toothy grin under “Prototype," and alternates between despair and glee under “Validate.”
Product. Mind Maps/Thinking Maps/Graphic Organizers. Human factors. Lateral Thinking. Quantified Self.