Though some have said we've moved past design thinking, its most exciting extensions move beyond the concept in its most narrow sense. Many wouldn't even be projects you'd expect from the IDEOs and Jump Associates of the world.READ»
Hardly anything unites Americans anymore--except for the death of Steve Jobs. His passing and the deep mourning for him across political, generational, and cultural divides remind us that we all can agree on one thing--that it is ...READ»
As I wrote earlier, design’s decisive turn away from old business to the new startup model may be one of those rare inflection points that determines historic trajectories. It comes at a moment when there is enormous dissatisfaction ...READ»
Designers are merging their ways of thinking with startup culture. The result, writes Bruce Nussbaum, is greater innovation and astounding VC success rates.READ»
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a brilliant thinker about innovation, is famously known for saying that the key strategic question for CEOs is “Where to play, how to win?” ...READ»
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. While designers may think that innovation requires ...READ»
The decade of Design Thinking is ending and I, for one, am moving on to another conceptual framework: Creative Intelligence, or CQ. I am writing a book about Creative Intelligence, due out from HarperCollins in fall 2012, and I ...READ»
Here at Co.Design, we pride ourselves on being a house of many mansions. To that end, we’ve spent the past several months sharing the perspectives of some of the finest experts working in design, from Bruce Nussbaum on the dangers ...READ»
As the first decade of the new century ends and the second begins, it is easy to embrace a Declinist vision for the United States. A decrepit infrastructure, gaping inequality (one in five children live in poverty), bleeding ...READ»
The horrors of the November election still hang heavy upon us, and I've been pondering how separate political culture has become from the society that I inhabit. In the past few weeks, I've attended the National Design Awards, the ...READ»
If you’re a business or an NGO with an operation in Asia or Latin America, where do you go when you want some serious local design thinking? You might start by calling my colleague and friend Carlos Teixeira, a Brazilian-born ...READ»
Sometimes a serious blog conversation delivers only heat, not light, but the discussion surrounding the post "Is Humanitarian Design The New Imperialism?" is proving to be extremely illuminating. There have been great comments ...READ»
While sitting in the parking lot of a BoJangles restaurant at 11 o'clock at night, I opened the link to Bruce Nussbaum’s recently published "Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?" article on this very forum. You may wonder ...READ»
Emily Pilloton's Design Revolution Road Show, the physical embodiment of her non-profit Project H Design rolled into New York a few weeks ago stopping at Metropolis, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and ICFF. Yes, Project H is ...READ»
Promoted as the "in" word in design circles in recent years, 'innovation' has become a mantra devoid of meaning. Glorified by the likes of Bruce Nussbaum of BusinessWeek and David Kelly of IDEO, "innovation" ...READ»
