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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Charles and Ray Eames
Transformation and Innovation
Innovation can involve small adjustments or great transformations. Social media provides a case study for understanding why ongoing monitoring 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 moreThe Ideology of Scaling Social Innovations
Without best evidence (which is almost always lacking in social innovation by its very nature), setting performance targets related to scale a priori is foolish. For innovators themselves, equally foolish is not gathering the kind of information about the systems they are operating in to know if they are the human or the ant and whether a shower is on the way.
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