Bringing People Into the Design Process
I recently had a conversation with Scott Millar, host of the Cool Collaborations podcast, about design and collaboration and how
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Conferencing Remotely
I’m conducting a review of four online conferences to share the design and educational lessons learned from each of them over the next four posts.
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Ties That Bind and Release Innovation
Remote working tools for collaboration can shape our culture of innovation or we can shape the tools themselves, the choice is ours, by design.
Read moreKindness Confusion in Collaboration and Co-creation
An emerging look at evolutionary behaviour is suggesting that we are better suited for survival by working together than in competition. This cooperation imperative has been called “survival of the kindness” which risks lumping affective social generosity and goodwill with effectiveness and desirability and, in doing so, risks the entire enterprise of collaboration-based efforts.
Read moreCreating Campires For Innovation and Knowledge Translation
Metaphors and analogies are commonly used in systems thinking and complexity science to illustrate concepts that are, on their own, relatively complex and awkward to describe literally. A campfire provides both a metaphor for bringing people together, but also a literal tool that could be used more effectively in work with groups struggling to innovate, collaborate and contemplate together. From a design perspective, campfires and the social system that they create around them provide an opportunity to enhance intimacy quickly, allowing for the potential to explore issues in ways that are more difficult to do in other settings.
Read moreGaming the Health System for Innovation and Change
Yesterday I attended the Cure4Kids Global Health Summit at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The three day event
Read moreThe Persistent Myth of the Lone Genius in Art and Science
Of the many persistent myths about innovation, the lone genius is about the most sticky. Continued research shows how untrue this is.
Read moreTrying to Innovate? Try Empathy
Find and build a tribe of people who you trust and like and spend time with them, get to know them, and invite new people in whenever possible to mix things up. If that is the case, then the way we work in the health and wellness sector is surely in trouble where we don’t curate information and customize our knowledge for others, and we don’t support the kind of relationship building that equates to robust knowledge translation.
Read moreDesign and Science: An Opportunity for Knowledge Translation and Exchange??
Knowledge translation models, such as the widely cited one conceived of by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, are both process and outcome oriented; ideal for designers. KT is a designed process and the more it is approached through the lens of design thinking, the greater likelihood we’ll get a system that reflects its intentions better than what we currently have.
Read moreClowning Around For Better Empathy and Design
Clowning might seem either silly or scary to some, but the art of non-verbal communication is just that: an art. And like art, it opens the door to myriad interpretations, but also to greater empathy and that only benefits design.
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