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What's Thwarting American Innovation? Too Much Science, Says Roger Martin

By pushing the principles of scientific management too far, corporations are short-circuiting their own futures, says the designiest dean of all the business schools. "The enemy of innovation is the phrase 'prove it,'" Roger Martin says.READ»

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ARTEFACT   |  3 comments

Field Research Can Be Rough, but It's the Only Way to Design for the Developing World

Design consultancy Artefact specializes in developing products for the developing world--and they're happy to share their hard-won expertise.READ»

The prophecy of Dyson fan

Early this week Dyson announced the launch of its new Air Multiplier fan. It was the talk of the town as it involved the use of radical technology and the fact that it has entirely overturned our perception of fans. Designers like me ...READ»

Why Change Management Needs Design Thinking

Unfortunately, traditional change management tactics fall short of realizing successful change. Tactical change management plans are only as useful as the strategy that drives them. You can’t put your change process into boxes and ...READ»

Living Climate Change: Design Thinking to Solve the World's Biggest Problem


What will life be like 20 or 30 years from now? That used to be a question for futurists, now global climate change makes it something we all think about. The trouble is that the way we think and talk about our impact on the environment is measured in statistics and abstracts. But there is a more tangible way to imagine what that future will look like...READ»

Can Design Thinking Improve Democracy?

Want to Improve Democracy? Try Design Thinking

Better ballot design could have changed the results of the 2000 election. A better design for information sharing might have prevented 9/11. Now, could design thinking help fix something fundamentally broken in American democracy: how we engage in national debate?READ»

Superman

Essential Tips for Making a Design Startup Look Like a Real--Big--Firm

Core 77 offers some tips for faking it until you make it.READ»

Automist

Exclusive Interview: The Invention of the Automist

Yusef Muhammed, the co-designer the 2009 Dyson Award-winning firefighting kitchen faucet, discusses the challenges it meets and the concepts his team discarded.READ»

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The Invention of Jawbone Offers Essential Lessons for Tech Start-Ups

Jawbone's designer and the company's CEO rap about how design is as important as tech for Silicon Valley start-ups.READ»

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What's The World's Biggest Challenge? Can Technologies Save Us? Or We Need To Rethink Economies And Ecologies?

If you ask me what’s the single biggest challenge, I’d say we simply have too many people. The place is too small for that many people and simply cannot support it. 25 years ago 2 billion people was already too many and soon ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Thinking about "Design Thinking"

Design Thinking sits squarely in a Cartesian world of divided minds and bodies in spite of the fact that recent advances in evolutionary theory and cognitive science point to the inseparability of what is called the "hand-brain ...READ»

Books

The 30 Most Important Books for Product Designers

What are the most important books for any product designer--or anyone hoping to crib some design thinking? READ»

Ivan Glickman
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Lessons Learned -- Why the Failure of Systems Thinking Should Inform the Future of Design Thinking

"You never learn by doing something right ‘cause you already know how to do it. You only learn from making mistakes and correcting them." Russell Ackoff Design and "design thinking" is gaining ...READ»

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American Airlines Web Site: The Product of a Self-Defeating Design Process

Designer Dustin Curtis was so disgusted with the American Airlines Web site that he redesigned it, and posted the results as an open letter to the company. Guess what? One of AA's designers responded with a long ...READ»

3M

Design on a Dime: 3M to Produce Student Concepts

3M Canada recently sponsored a class at Ontario College of Art & Design to revamp its office products, and the company now plans to produce the two best designs. One is a tape dispenser by Matthew Pacione; another is a ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
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So You Say You Want a Definition — What is Designing?

It is easy to get hung up on the difficulty of defining something as pervasive as designing.READ»

Participation

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: How to Design a Participatory System

Those who have stuck with me all week, know that I believe that participation is key to the next big wave of innovation in business and society. Whether it is in the fundamentals of how we think about wealth or the economy, how we ...READ»

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Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Control Your Own Health Care

In the U.K. in the 1940s, Sir William Beveridge designed what became known as the welfare state. In an ambitious program, the post-war Labor government attempted to put in place a series of services designed to ensure that the ...READ»

Kickstart

Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Why We Need Economic Dashboards

A significant difference between those of us fortunate to be living above the poverty line and those unfortunate enough to be at the "bottom of the pyramid" is that the 'wealthy' can afford to consume. Being a ...READ»

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Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Learning to Measure Participation

When I consider bidding for something on e-Bay, the first thing I do is check the reliability rating of the seller. When I want to meet a hard-to-reach executive, I try to establish a link through my network. When I consider which ...READ»

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Creating a Post-Crisis Economy: Moving Beyond Consumption

For the next few days I plan to explore what I am calling the Age of Involvement: the role of participation in an information society and how it leads to an expanded view of our economy. I am not an economist and have never studied ...READ»

Tim Brown

Welcoming Guest Blogger Tim Brown: Can We Design a Post-Crisis Economy?

About a year ago, I happened to be at breakfast panel at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, where Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, was speaking. At the time, the topic, "What is Wrong with American Design?" was much in the ...READ»

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Crowdsourced Healthcare: What Britain's Doctors Ordered?

"Design thinking" is all the rage, thanks to Apple, Target, you name it--it's the idea that with a little ingenuity, companies can gear their products and services to what consumers want. But one of the more intriguing ...READ»

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Design Revolutionaries: Should You Be the U.S. Secretary of Design?

Back in November, representatives from most of the major U.S. design organizations, from architecture to graphics to interiors met in D.C. to find a way for design to have a greater role in the incoming Obama ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

Just What is Design Thinking?—The View from the Blogosphere

There is considerable interest in design thinking and its application to management. A google search on “design thinking” and “management” produced 146,000 items. When “business” is substituted for management the number ...READ»

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