Models, Frameworks, and Theories (Oh, My!)
Models, frameworks and theories are meant to guide what we do, yet they can also obscure what needs doing. The
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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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What is Evaluation? (And Why You Should Care)
Evaluation is a term that requires some rehabilitation. The term isn’t incorrect or outdated, just poorly understood and not much
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Design Thinking for Evaluation
Design thinking for evaluation is about expanding possibilities for both design and evaluation together. Design thinking and evaluation are intimately
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Evaluation and Design: Language for Innovation
Design and evaluation are a two-way street and both fields of practice are wise to learn each others’ language Design
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Design Choices and Their Outcomes
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
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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Taking Ideas Into Sustainable Innovation
One bright idea is pretty but a collection of ideas put into practice over time, sustainably, is beautiful (and real
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Learning for Innovation
Learning is at the heart of innovation and works best when evaluation is part of the process to spot what’s
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Doing Our Homework on our Research
Checking our assumptions about basic things could be the difference between design delight and doom. If you were to tell
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