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Design Choices and Their Outcomes

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 82 Views 0 Comments Charles and Ray Eames, design, design thinking, designer, evaluation, impact, innovation

Evaluation is not a word that fits easily into design practice, but when it does, it lays bare what it

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Design’s Accessibility Problem

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 112 Views 0 Comments cense, complexity, design, design thinking, evaluation, Herbert Simon

Our models of design and Design Thinking can enhance our ability to shape human systems without trivializing it’s importance. Design

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Developing Creative Confidence With Practice

February 20, 2021February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 141 Views 0 Comments Albert Bandura, behaviour change, creative confidence, creativity, Cynefin Framework, design thinking, futures, innovation, psychology, self-efficacy

The means to developing the ability to create useful, valued products and service comes from learning through doing. What is

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Innovation Subscriptions

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 141 Views 0 Comments behaviour change, change leadership, culture of innovation, design, design sprint, design thinking, innovation, persistence, psychology, ritual, systems innovation, systems thinking

The concept of subscribing to something is an attractive way to build in practices to sustain innovative activities. Whether it

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The Sense-making Winter

February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 140 Views 0 Comments covid-19, design research, nature, pandemic, research methods, season, sensemaking, service design

Winter provides a literal and metaphorical season ripe for sense-making if the other seasons are different Winter creates a natural

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Design Thinking, Futures & Evaluation

February 11, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 216 Views 0 Comments evaluation, futures, innovation, social change, strategic foresight

The time to bring together three fields of practice focused on shaping the future with evidence and imagination is here.

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A Better Next

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 273 Views 2 Comments covid-19, design thinking, education, healing, innovation, strategic foresight

Beforetimes were different than now and what’s next will be different, too. The difference is that one we can design

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Innovators and Maintainers

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 158 Views 0 Comments Clayton Christensen, design, disruptive innovation, innovation, Lee Vinsel, maintainer

Innovators are nothing without maintainers to keep those innovations working: we forget that at our peril. Innovation is what a

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Listening Matters

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 278 Views 2 Comments covid-19, design research, qualitative research

Shared events do not always yield common experiences or perceptions: our design research must keep that in mind. Prior to

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Doing Our Homework on our Research

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 230 Views 2 Comments covid-19, design research, research, service design

Checking our assumptions about basic things could be the difference between design delight and doom. If you were to tell

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