This blog has taken a little rest over the holidays (and some time after that too, oh my), but now I am back in full swing. Let’s start the new year with design-related stuff, shall we? This is no coincidence, as the DesignCamp Cologne is sneaking up and I must prepare a session still. So […]
David Report writes about five key design trends and relates them in depth to […] social, economical and ecological patterns and phenomena’s over the entire global – local scale. The 5 key design trends are: Cooltural – Abbreviation of Cool Cultural Rationaissance – Abbreviation of Rationalism Renaissance Responsibiz – Abbreviation of Responsible business Sensuctive – […]
The design thinking meme is raging on, now there’s an article in the New York Times called “Design is more than packaging“. It’s good to see it in the Business section (remember 2005? BusinessWeek titled Tomorrow’s B-School? It Might Be A D-School) and I like the nice pragmatic end quote: “It would be overreaching to […]
Time again for a design-thinking post – got triggered by the Küchenradio: Simon Blake arbeitet an der D-School am privat finanzierten Hasso-Plattner-Institut der Uni Potsdam. Das “Design Thinking” will für große Probleme schnell praktische Lösungen finden. Wie das geht und was bisher gelöst wurde […] Here’s the mp3 (yes, german language). Then via Michael Altendorf […]
Hehe, love this “wiki” in quotation marks, still way to go to real mainstream adoption I guess, whatever Gartner says. But hey, this Studio 360 podcast with Christopher Alexnder is a good listen (mp3). Found via Victor. His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the […]
It’s a week of heavy travel and conferencing, yesterday the International Forum on Enterprise 2.0 in Varese, now I’m at reboot 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Started well with a cozy welcome and “conferencing package”: Talks started off with Howard Rheingold, then it’s Molly Wright Steenson with a talk on Responsive architecture and open society. Interesting blog […]
Found more interesting things on usability and design – check out this video of Marissa Mayer’s keynote at the Google I/O Developers Conference. Whoa, she’s fast and smart.
