Design with Dialogue: Framing Perspectives on Mental Wellness
An Innovation Town Hall on Mental Wellness November’s Design with Dialogue invites a wide range of community members to explore the landscape of campus and community mental wellness, the innovation of...
View ArticleThe Healthcare Innovator’s Challenge
Adapted from Design for Care (page 253 ) The innovator’s challenge in healthcare is not a technological fix – it is more to understand and preserve core values of human care while changing practices...
View ArticleCo-designing for power balance in social systems
Power remains a hugely unresolved issue in strategic design, “systems change,” OD, and progressive management. Healthcare, like other public and social sector institutions (education, social welfare,...
View ArticleDesign Thinking’s Convergence Diversion
(Updated from 2010) We now tend to think of design thinking as embracing all that represents “new design.” Yet there remains more value in some of the original views of design thinking from decades...
View ArticleEdge Practices: How Do You Measure Value?
Every design discipline (even industrial design) has had to develop its best rationale for the question “why should we keep/hire/use you guys?” If they keep asking, “what is it you do again?” you may...
View ArticleFear and Loathing of Evidence in Design Research
Don Norman has been advocating an evolution in design thinking and education with a stronger role for evidence. Recently, Don articulated a scale of levels of rigor in design practice, ranging from...
View ArticleThe Healthcare Innovator’s Challenge
Adapted from Design for Care (page 253 ) The innovator’s challenge in healthcare is not a technological fix – it is more to understand and preserve core values of human care while changing practices...
View ArticleCo-designing for power balance in social systems
Power remains a hugely unresolved issue in strategic design, “systems change,” OD, and progressive management. Healthcare, like other public and social sector institutions (education, social welfare,...
View ArticleDesign Thinking’s Convergence Diversion
(Updated from 2010) We now tend to think of design thinking as embracing all that represents “new design.” Yet there remains more value in some of the original views of design thinking from decades...
View ArticleEdge Practices: How Do You Measure Value?
Every design discipline (even industrial design) has had to develop its best rationale for the question “why should we keep/hire/use you guys?” If they keep asking, “what is it you do again?” you may...
View ArticleFear and Loathing of Evidence in Design Research
Depending on the discourses you follow, you might notice “design-led everything” has charged ahead with design thinking, speculative and design futures, empathic HCD and so on. Design research and...
View ArticleSDN Touchpoint: Systems Thinking in Service Design
Touchpoint is back! The long-awaited issue on systems thinking in service design was just published by the Service Design Network, and of course, we find it is beautifully designed. The guest editors...
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