In September last year, do you remember I mentioned that I was going to Berlin to co-facilitate a workshop with our partners The Design Thinkers group?
Kontra over at counternotions writes:
There are many counterintuitive ‘rules’ in product design, these two are among the most intractable: • The more successful a product, the harder it’s to upgrade. • The more users say they want a product update, the more they complain when the change
1. Ideas don't come from watching television 2. Ideas sometimes come from listening to a lecture 3. Ideas often come while reading a book 4. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them 5. Ideas hate conference rooms,
This has to be one of my favourite cars of all time, and part of the scant few products that I don't mind they iterate instead of innovate. Good design does take time. I wonder
Creativity is relational. Its practice is mostly about casting widely and connecting disparate dots of existing knowledge in new, meaningful ways. To be creative, you’ve got to mine your knowledge. You have to know your dots. - Bruce NussbaumOne of the things that I do
I chuckled at Tom Fishburne's Showrooming cartoon, partly because it was funny, and partly because it was so true. I do that all the time in bookstores; flip through the hardcopy and then buy the ebook.
Unfortunately
In a nice little interview on 60 Minutes, David Kelley shares his thoughts on IDEO, Design Thinking and Steve Jobs. The Design Thinking bit is very simplified, but some of the key points are there. You might have already seen it, but if
Frog Design has graciously shared their 20 technology trends for 2013, which includes the usual suspects such as mainstreaming of 3D printing and the further humanising of technology. No big surprises, but still a good read anyway. Enjoy the slideshow after the jump!
I would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
May 2013 be your best year yet!
One thing, however, is clear: printed picture books are becoming increasingly beautiful in their production with ever greater attention to the physical, tactile, ‘holding’ quality of the books as artifacts, in gloriously varied sizes and shapes. This process is carving out the territory of the
Our Early Bird discount is officially over. However we are still taking on participants, so do sign up now!
Our 2 day Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop 7 will be held on 31th Jan to 1 Feb.
Since the recent keynote by Tim Cook (October 2012), there has been a media furor on how it is going to be the end of Apple, or that Apple after Jobs
After all the moaning and groaning, who really knows why? Except probably Apple. Perhaps history can tell us why by taking a look at what Steve Jobs wrote two months after the iPhone debuted in 2007.
Other than the fact that disruptive innovation creates jobs and incremental (efficiency) innovation destroys them, Clayton Christensen, the guru of disruptive innovation (a must read by the way!) said:
Remember how I did not buy that the role of product curator moves about at Apple? Well it's pretty clear. In a recent Press Release from Apple on increasing collaboration between hardware, software and services, we can see:
Jony Ive
Oh my! Can it be? Yes it is! It's time for our 6th Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop scheduled to run at the end of November. Is it already
Expanding on some of my ideas covered in my first post: Implementing Design Thinking 1: Focus on the Outcome not the Process, my next most frequent observation is that Design Thinkers tend to
That's the billion dollar question.
But without Jobs, can Apple still innovate? George Colony of Forrester Research suggested in April that Apple will, like Sony after the death of its leader, Akio Morita, in 1999, decline: "When Steve Jobs departed, he took three things with him:
Journey map by Evan Litvak. A fresh look at a visualization of a circular repeated journey.
Kim Cullen, from Adaptive Path, recently shares their process in teaching Journey Maps at Workshops. Their process was adapted from Jamin Hegman and Jared
