UX design, service design and design thinking.
Design Thinking Method Cards (Beta 1.0) Modthink #DesignThinking. Organizations must stop designing products, start designing behaviour spaces: Alexander Manu. Does anyone know about case studies where an organisation and/or management practices have been transformed by using design? Many thanks! The Pitfalls of Prediction. Prognostication is a multi-billion dollar industry.
We have weathermen, Wall Street Analysts, political pundits and futurologists. They all claim some expertise. These people exist because there is strong demand for their services. Towards a New Model for Innovation – design inside. My recent conversation with Brigitte Borja de Mozota focused on the necessity of a renewed model for innovation, and her view of “design thinking” inside.
Brigitte believes that working with designers is what made her a better manager. She has made her life’s goal to try to prove, convince, and share with people the “joy of working with designers.” Our discussion follows: The problem with "design thinking" By Saul Kaplan, contributor FORTUNE -- Believe in the power of design.
Through it, we will chart the landscape of possibility – designing, testing and prototyping new terrain. When There's No Simple Solution At Work, Learn To Embrace The Mess. This is the third in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss, a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton.
Read the first installment, Are You A Power Poisoned Boss? Here, and the second, What Good Bosses Do With Bad Apples, here. The best bosses strive to simplify things for themselves, their people, and their customers. In addition to the subtraction mindset already considered, Good Boss, Bad Boss shows the value of checklists, of instilling predictability during scary times, and offers A.G. Lafley’s philosophy that the best managers make things “Sesame Street simple.” Empathize Like A Doctor, Design Like An Entrepreneur. Every day it seems that we read about the launch of a new startup or technology application claiming to disrupt and reinvent the health care system.
This flood of activity comes at a time when the health care industry is in dire need of entrepreneurial spirit, fresh perspectives and new skills. But to create products and services that have the potential to make a large impact, entrepreneurs and health care professionals need to work together. Defining Success For new products to impact health and health care outcomes, we must find a way for them to be adopted by physicians, patients, health care institutions, third-party payers, and regulatory agencies.
This will require entrepreneurs and institutions to work together. The majority of health startups today appear to be disconnected from the health care systems they are trying to change. We recognize that the health care institution is only one of the many stakeholders required to successfully bring new solutions to market.
Presentations. Why the Business Case is Killing Innovation. Most business cases outline a problem, some potential solutions, and an investment strategy in the hope of gaining approval.
Unfortunately this no longer works. Innovation is a Process We know that innovation is more than just a single activity involving a group of ‘creatives’ getting together and inventing wacky but wonderful ideas. Innovation is a deliberate process moving through a number of steps: Understand the problemClarify your vision of successDevelop the right questionCreate lots of ideasDevelop the most promising ideas into solutionsExperimentLaunch (this is where you should use a business case) For the sharp eyed amongst you, you may have noticed that we do still use a business case.
Separate Ideas from Solutions It seems obvious that you should spend time up front defining the problem, understanding what a successful solution would look like (or at least eh benefits it will bring) and making sure you are asking the right question. This is an important shift in focus. Business Plans Don’t Work. Nine out of ten business start-ups, and one in six business transformations will confirm it.
Learning from the failures of the past, it becomes clear that we have been missing a key step in the execution of our business plans. That key step is the discovery of what works. Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle. HBR-on-Design-Thinking.pdf (application/pdf Object) Design Thinking. Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What's Next? The decade of Design Thinking is ending and I, for one, am moving on to another conceptual framework: Creative Intelligence, or CQ.
Frog Design: 3 Things Wile E. Coyote Teaches Us About Creative Intelligence. Bruce Nussbaum was right to close the book on Design Thinking.
It is time to move on. Business never really got the message. What businesses continue to care about is innovation. This column will change your life: design thinking. Oliver Burkeman: 'The notion that designers might have much to teach the rest of us has swept the business world.' Illustration: Francesco Bongiorni for the Guardian If you're a graphic designer, you'll already know that "kerning" refers to making tiny adjustments to the spaces between letters.
If you're not, there's a strong possibility you won't care. But either way I suspect you'll see why I was sceptical about a new book entitled Life Kerning: Creative Ways To Fine Tune Your Perspective On Career & Life, which treats kerning as a metaphor for living.