Behavioural Design, Attention & Change
How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we
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A Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our
Read moreAsking Better and More Beautiful Questions
Beautiful answers require beautiful (and better) questions and Warren Berger’s new book looks at this very phenomenon of inquiry and
Read moreDo you value (social) innovation?
The term evaluation has at its root the term value and to evaluate innovation means to assess the value that
Read moreReading it Later: Om Malik Reflects
Giga OM founder and prolific reader Om Malik posted a reflection on his reading habits on his blog that got
Read moreDesign Space in Public Health
If design is everywhere humans are and shapes our interactions in the built environment, which dictates how we interact with
Read moreHandbook of Systems and Complexity in Health
A brilliant and comprehensive new book has been launched that brings together the best scholars working in the area of
Read moreRethinking the Relationship Between Simplicity, Complexity and Knowledge
John Maeda’s 4th Law of Simplicity states: “knowledge makes everything simpler”. In this post I lay out why this might be only partly correct, suggest that there are problems where this works better than other and illustrate how knowledge can also make things more complex, rather than simple.
Read moreIs Simplicity the Antidote to Complexity?
John Maeda has taken on the task of exploring simplicity as a means of making sense of a complex world. In this post I explore his 10 laws and introduce an argument that challenges three of these laws.
Read moreJaron Lanier and Dominant Design
Are we creating path dependencies with our creative technologies that actually limit creativity? Jaron Lanier thinks so and in this post I introduce the concept of dominant design and what it means in terms of technological and social innovation.
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