Maybe We Shouldn’t Design for Resilience
Resilience is about ‘bouncing back’ and getting through challenges, but is it the right model to be considered when “back”
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Design, creativity, and design thinking
Design and the Cautionary Tales of Path Dependence
As millions of people shift their work patterns back to offices and shops from their homes the chance for renewal
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Organizational Healing By Design
Whether it is our organizations, teams or ourselves we need to heal. What’s made this such a complicated challenge is
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Organizational Healing
Re-opening and returning to some kind of post-COVID reality will require some healing. Where do we start? This post we
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Environmental Effects and Change-Making
There are reasons people read or scroll through content on beautiful places and spaces; it inspires us to create. Our
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Culture Transitions and Transformations
It’s been said by (maybe) Peter Drucker and (definitely) the Internet that culture eats strategy for breakfast. This quote’s truth
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Design-Driven Evaluation and System Change
Our designs drive systems change as much as anything and feedback drives good design. Feedback comes from evaluation so it
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Toward Real Human Futures and Foresight
At the time of this writing, Russia has just invaded Ukraine, protesters have just left a 3-week occupation of the
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First Mover Effects
People remember the first, not always the best. This was sage wisdom that my doctoral advisor shared when speaking about
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On Designing For Humans
Designing for Humans sounds like an obvious statement for designers, but very often we design things for things — systems,
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