‘Design and more’ Archive

Design made in Germany

Learned about the possibility of embedding via Peter – too nice, and they have also added the option of downloading a pdf again. This is looking good now, ie. it’s a neat way to present content on the web (and invite and allow networked dissemination). Check out the designers workplaces article. And check out the […]

(Academic) knowledge production

The pop-culture approach to bringing scientific and designerly knowledge to the masses scrapes only the surface, and it is in the depth and in the details that we can find the relevant knowledge necessary for practicing designers to do what they do best: to design, to execute, and to do so quickly. via interactions.acm.org (in […]

Integrating business and design thinking

Via Doblin Group – a bit black and white and surely not complete, but a starting point for discussion.

Design Research (is not Market Research)

View more presentations from Joyce Chou. Like this one before via PSST, liked it a lot because of the toolbox approach (slides 13 ff.) and the pragmatic actionable learnings (slides 21 ff.)

No more boring Powerpoint

STEAL THIS PRESENTATION! View more presentations from @JESSEDEE. Via Sachar‘s Google Reader Empfehlungen …

IDEO’s Axioms for Starting Disruptive New Businesses

How do you build a business in an unproven market? How do you figure out what customers need when you’re delivering an experience they’ve never seen before? You begin where service and software companies have begun, by conducting fast, cheap experiments that help you understand your customers. You build on what you learn. In short, […]

Floops – visual systems thinking language

FloopsView more presentations from ngogerty. Hmm, I am a fan of (systems thinking) methodologies and tools for visualization, so this visual feedback language proposal by Nick Gogerty looks interesting. Might use this and see if it’s working, ie. how well one can communicate systems behaviour and complexities with floops (besides, floops is a name just too […]