August 2020

Learning’s Problems

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 853 Viewschange, design practice, education, educational design, learning, professional education, psychological safety, workplace

Learning is the key to innovation and resilience and it also presents us with problems. Developmental evaluation, adaptive strategy, and

psychology

But/And: A Psychology of Dualism

August 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 923 Viewscomplexity, language, psychology, questions

Replace the word ‘but’ with ‘and’ to change not only your language, but your worldview, too.

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Five Hundred

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1946 Viewsdesign, design thinking, education, learning, psychology, self-care

Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.

design

Rethink Design Thinking

August 17, 2020August 18, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 904 Viewscovid-19, design, design ethics, design practice, design thinking, ethics

Design thinking might need a re-think as we continue to see it used in ways it probably never should be.

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Incubation and Echoes

August 14, 2020February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 715 Viewscognitive science, complexity, covid-19, design thinking, Liz Weaver, psychology, sensemaking, sketch map, strategic design, systemic design, systems thinking, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, The RSA, toolkit, visual thinking

Systems change requires the kind of tools and mindset shifts that can move how and what we see to act better. We profile various strategies to help you do that.

education & learning

To Teach, To Learn: How Committed Are We to Both?

August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 705 Viewseducation, evaluation, higher education, learning, teachers, teaching, university

Our learning institutions are not set up for actual learning. Look at the costs and outcomes and we might design them differently.

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Time for Design Thinking to Grow Up

August 6, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1101 Viewsdesign, design science, design thinking, evaluation, evidence, research, social psychology, theory

Design thinking is ready to evolve to the next stage with evidence, case studies, definitions and theories. We look at the current state of the science, art, and practice.