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April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 61 Views 0 Comments accessibility, Anthropocene, climate change, craft, design, design education, design literacy, design methods, design thinking, evaluation, futures, George Miller, innovation, psychology

Design is far too important not to be shared and made as accessible as possible as our future literally depends

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Innovation for the Real World

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 74 Views 0 Comments change, complexity, Cynefin Framework, data, design, innovation, organizational psychology, perspective taking, psychological safety, psychology, systems perspective, systems thinking

Why does most of what we read about innovation resemble very little of what our work life actually looks like?

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Design Psychology and Innovation Fears

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 118 Views 0 Comments craft, creativity, design, design psychology, fear, innovation, innovation ecosystem, Lee Vinsel, maintainer, psychology

Innovation means trying new things and that involves overcoming fear by and through design efforts Of the many barriers to

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Disruption and Stability

April 7, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 93 Views 0 Comments brainstorming, design, innovation, psychology, work, workplace

How to design when we are massively disrupted and still left with this persistent feeling of sameness? Contrast captures our

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Energy and Curiosity

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 196 Views 1 Comment community, creativity, curiosity, innovation, neuroscience, psychology, self-care, Tony Schwartz

Being curious is a means to discovery and innovation and requires an energy that many are finding in short supply.

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Pasts, Presents, and Futures

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 189 Views 0 Comments behaviour change, community psychology, covid-19, design, foresight, futures, healing, learning, Michael Quinn Patton, psychology, systemic design, systems thinking, teaching

Our understanding of situations are co-constructed and that means our future is, too. Shaping our future — at least one

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Evaluation and Design: Language for Innovation

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 298 Views 0 Comments design, design practice, design thinking, design-driven evaluation, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation

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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Taking Ideas Into Sustainable Innovation

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 259 Views 0 Comments culture, culture of innovation, design thinking, evaluation, ideas, innovation, measurement, persistence, Seth Godin, sustainability, toolkit

One bright idea is pretty but a collection of ideas put into practice over time, sustainably, is beautiful (and real

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Practice Amid Disruption

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 215 Views 0 Comments cascade, change, deliberative practice, design practice, emergence, greg satell, innovation, mindfulness, persistence, practice, resilience, Seth Godin, social change, systems thinking

What regular practice does is reduce the cost of failure and these costs are different in times of disruption. Innovation

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Developing Creative Confidence With Practice

February 20, 2021February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 290 Views 2 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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