March 2012
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Prototyping isn't a step; it is the process!
Diego Rodriguez from MetaCool writes:
Designers are always prototyping, whether it’s moving things around in their imagination, building a reverse income statement in Excel, or hacking something out of wood using a sidewalk as sandpaper. The notion that a designer waits until it’s “prototyping time” to start messing around with stuff is just wrong. Prototyping starts...
February 2012
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Designing Better Services Experiences
Designing Better Service Experiences from Continuum on Vimeo.
Design firm Continuum and the AIGA design association convened a group of top business leaders and innovators from a variety of backgrounds and industries, including Disney, Facebook and Zipcar, to discuss how designing a service experience with purpose can transform a company’s image and make people’s lives better.
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Leancamp Barcelona, Conference Notes
This weekend we attended the first Leancamp Barcelona, and we really enjoyed it.
Leancamp is an unconference – an open, interactive, multi-track event – which brings together the world’s Lean, Agile and Design-led business leaders, and practitioners from different disciplines. It’s a high-energy day focused on learning and knowledge transfer.
You can download our notes from the event.
January 2012
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Design Thinking: Una Manera Más Humana de Innovar
No es fácil encontrar información sobre Design Thinking en español, así que cuando hemos leido el artículo publicado en Open Circle, nos hemos puesto muy contentos. entre otros, el Design Thinking abarca las siguientes características:
Empatía: capacidad de imaginar el mundo desde distintas perspectivas
Integrative thinking: habilidad de ver los aspectos sobresalientes de un problema complejo...
December 2011
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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...
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Design the New Business Screening: Finland
Trailer - Design The New Business from dthenewb on Vimeo
DesignThinkingBarcelona.com and MIND invite you to the Finnish premier of DESIGN THE NEW BUSINESS
Featuring interviews with Alexander Osterwalder (Business Model Generation), Frido Smulders (TUDelft), Ralf Beuker (FH Münster), Jan Buijs (TUDleft), Philips, Engine Service Design, DesignThinkers, Claro Partners, IN10, Volkswagen, and Océ.
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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...
November 2011
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Design Thinking; Time to Move On?
Every now and then, some of the references in design and design thinking like to shake the status-quo by questioning the validity of the approach. Already some months ago Bill Moggridge and Don Norman discussed if design thinking is a useful myth.
Now it’s the turn of Bruce Nussbaum, one of Design Thinking’s biggest advocates known for his Business Week articles on the subject. On...
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Designing With People
Designingwithpeople.org has been created by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art to share ways to design with people.
Get started by meeting real people and exploring a range of activities of daily living. On this site you can review design methods, develop protocols for ethical practice and contribute your own ideas.
How to Think Creatively →
Saturation
Incubation
Illumination
Verification
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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...
October 2011
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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...
Is Art a "Bicho Raro"* for Business?
While thinking how to introduce alternative methods for the analytical ones that often dominate the business arena, MIND research group and Connecting Brains put together the concept of BICHO RARO. It is a series of experimental exhibitions that promote a creative problem solving attitude in the world of business. The goal is to familiarize managers and business students to methods from other...
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Licence to Slow Down: An Unhurried Checkout...
MIND-research group of Aalto University works together with the Finnish Service Foundation for People with an Intellectual Disability on a research project that looks into the every day needs of intellectually disabled youngsters. One early finding has been the contradictory feelings associated with grocery shopping; on one hand the trip to the supermarket was a highlight of the week, but on the...
September 2011
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Tesco Virtual Store in Subway
In South-Korea, grocery chain Tesco has recently been re-branded to Home Plus. Moreover, they were looking for ways to increase market share, and they did by bringing the store where the consumer is and where there’s idle time: subway stations.
Great example of how user observation can untap new opportunities.
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Ethnography Fieldguide
Helsinki Design Lab has made available for download an Ethnography Fieldguide:
It is intended to be the minimal starting point for this kind of activity. We supplement this document with group discussions to prepare participants and adjust the booklet as needed in different situations.
Download the Ethnography Fieldguide by HDL
More resources on ethnography
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Enviu Co-Creation Guide
A lot has been said and written about the wisdom of the crowds. For some it represents a new way to develop innovative solutions, for others it is only a buzzword. For Enviu, it is a way of working and a mindset. Since 2004, Enviu involves young entrepreneurial people, senior executives, corporate partners and universities to co-create innovative businesses solutions for sustainability issues....
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Introduction to Ethnography
Ethnography is a research method based on observing people in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting.
6 Steps to ethnographic research:
Define the problem
Find people
Plan an approach
Collect data
Analyze data & interpret opportunities
Share insights
Find out more about ethnography research at An Ethnography Primer, an introduction to the subject by Aiga,...
Prototyping with Projection Mapping
Living Room from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.
Mr. Beam is one exciting projection mapping crew! Take a look at some of the wonders of Mr. Beam here. The Living Room -project of Mr. Beam is a good example of demonstrating different options for a living room decoration and atmosphere through physical 3D video mapping.
“This technique allowed us to take control of all colors, patterns and textures...
August 2011
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Bringing Design Into Management Education
Heather Frasier, interviewed by Infonomia.tv, explains how design thinking is being taught at the Rotman School of Management.
Watch the video, and read more on “Forget business administration: teach design thinking”.
Collaborative Drawing Games to Facilitate...
Zach Postone in The Future Now Blog, writes how group games involving collaborative drawing could very well facilitate an ideation process where ideas are built on top of others’ ideas.
Visualization as an approach to generate and further develop ideas - as well as to share them - is gaining interest in many contexts. The Barcelona-based company Connecting Brains works...
July 2011
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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...
April 2011
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Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators
Michael from Design Thinking for Educators on Vimeo.
Classrooms and schools across the world are facing design challenges every single day, from teacher feedback systems to daily schedules. Wherever they fall on the spectrum of scale—the challenges educators are confronted with are real, complex, and varied. And as such, they require new perspectives, new tools, and new approaches....
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DIY Education: With Design Thinking,... →
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Templates for Web & Mobile Design →
These sticky notes are great for rapid prototyping of mobile phone and website’s user interfaces. You might also download for free the layouts
March 2011
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Sustainability & Design Thinking @ ParisTech
Summary of a week long workshop at Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech during the Introduction to Design course.
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Teaching Kids Design Thinking
The next generation will need to be more and more comfortable with problems of dizzying complexity. And design thinking can teach them that.
To find a new set of solutions for our education system, let’s begin by asking the generation that is most affected by the current state of education. Prototype Design Camp was created by Christian Long, a visionary educator, to introduce and infuse...
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Open and Closed Prototypes
On a recent post by Tom Maiorana, Principal Interaction Designer at Intuit, the concept of open and closed prototyping is discussed:
An open prototype is most common. It’s something which you hand over to the user and allow them to have a direct experience with the artifact or scenario.
A closed prototype is one which the user is present, but doesn’t interact directly. Watching a skit, a...
February 2011
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Rough Prototyping: Be Quick and Dirty
Luke Williams is a designer at frog design and author of the blog Disruptive Thinking. On one of his latest posts, Luke gives some insights to the meaning of rough prototyping, including:
“Rough” means that your prototypes should be “satisfactory” as opposed to “optimal.” Big difference;
Quick and dirty prototypes make thinking tangible. They give shape to your ideas
The post illustrates...
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Before IDEO
Today we present a promotional video from David Kelly Design, one of the three funding firms of IDEO - together with Bill Moggridge’s ID Two and Mike Nuttall’s Matrix Product Design. For the looks, we guess this must be somewhere late 80’s. In any case, a funny piece.
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Return of Investment of User Experience
In this animated video Dr. Susan Weinschenk demonstrates how user centered design results in significant return on investment (ROI).
Download a PDF poster of the ROI of User Experience animation featured in this video. Dr. Weinschenk is part of Human Factors International and has published 4 books on user experience. Her most recent book, Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click?.
January 2011
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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...
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Inventables, the Innovator's Hardware Store
Inventables is paradise for creative people who likes to build stuff, as well as a great place to get those hard-to-find materials to prototype your ideas. At Inventables you can find things like bendable wood, aluminum foam, shock absorbing gel, temperature sensitive color-changing fabrics, or shape memory polymers.
We believe that it is currently too difficult for designers, artists, and...
December 2010
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Barcelona Design Thinking UnConference
Just discovered at the Design Thinking Network that design school Elisava will host the Barcelona Design Thinking UnConference from February 1st to 4th.
A draft version of The program is available here. So far, it includes workshops and presentations by:
Ineedit Strategic Design Lab (ES)
Claro Partners (ES)
Design Thinkers (NL)
D-Schol Postdam (DE)
Philips Design (NL)
It’s is...
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Design Thinking Network
We are glad to introduce the Design Thinking Network.
The main reason why we started this blog was to have a place to aggregate resources on the field of design thinking. Moreover, this has been mainly set for personal purposes, as a reference site when in need for inspiration or find back that video or article once found.
However, we are missing some interaction with others interested on the...
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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.
Download the guide here...
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How to Fail Forward?
Failcamp @ trendforum 2010
We love to review successful innovation and design stories. However, most products and services launched to the market, fail. How do we learn to deal with that, and how to embrace a culture of failure? In this presentation, Frog design reviews what it takes to successfully “fail forward”, including the following tips:
Culture & leadership: create...
October 2010
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Makedo, Prototyping Set of Tools
1 min crash course from MAKEDO on Vimeo.
Makedo is a connector system that enables materials including cardboard, plastic and fabric to easily join together to form new objects or structures. This is great for rough prototyping.
Makedo is made up of three simple parts: a connector, a hinge and a construction tool.
The connector comprises a pin and a clip which clamp material together....
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Design for Dementia Guide
Today, I attended Barcelona Design Week’s session Facing New Challenges Through Design. There, I learned about the work of Rama Gheerawo, Deputy Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, at the Royal College of Art .
Rama has been presenting user-centered design projects, specially in relation to elderly. In that respect, I’d like to recommend to download the publication Design for...
September 2010
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Marshmallow Challenge; Building a Team with...
If you want experience the lessons on the importance of early prototyping, experimentation, and thinking by doing, The Marshmallow Challenge is a great exercise to do. The challenge was originally presented by Peter Skillman at TED, but Tom Wujec has now turned it into a global sport.
Adapted from Lottahassi.com
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Design with Intent Cards - a Toolkit for...
This set of cards created by by Dan Lockton with David Harrison and Neville A. Stanton offer 101 patterns for influencing behavior through design.
The authors write:
“All design influences our behaviour, but as designers we don’t always consciously consider the power this gives us to help people, (and, sometimes, to manipulate them). There’s a huge opportunity for design for behaviour change...
August 2010
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What is Design? A lecture by Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute
Via Core 77
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OpenIDEO.com: Where People Design Better, Together
Introduction to OpenIDEO / OpenIDEO.com from IDEO on Vimeo.
OpenIDEO is a place where people design better, together for social good. It’s an online platform for creative thinkers: the veteran designer and the new guy who just signed on, the critic and the MBA, the active participant and the curious lurker. Together, this makes up the creative guts of OpenIDEO.
To become a place where...
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Bill Moggridge and Don Norman on “Design Thinking:...
Bill Moggridge responds to Don Norman’s “Design Thinking: A Useful Myth” via Core77
June 2010
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Tim Brown on Design Thinking
“Tim Brown (IDEO) says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking” (extracted from TED site).
Change by Design by Tim Brown (book)
Tim Brown on Creativity & Play...
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WatchVideo “Designing for People or How to Facilitate User Feedback” by Nathan Waterhouse (IDEO) on a presentation given at HackFwd incubation program.
For more appealing videos from IDEO & HackFwd, check Passion Meets Momentum.
