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Do Relationships Scale?

October 31, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 341 Views Coca Cola, conference, design, design management, evolution, evolutionary psychology, New York City, Paul Antrobus, Powers of Ten, psychology, scale, systems thinking

Meaning is something that requires attention to create and use and the more variables competing for attention in your life, the less meaningful things might be. If this is the case, can we design programs and initiatives that scale up from small to big? Or do we need to reframe the way we see scaling to something akin to a network, whereby there are a lot of small nodes connected together? Networking nodes seems to be a way to go big and go small.

If so, what does this mean for designing systems that scale?

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Health for Design

July 14, 2011 Cameron D. Norman 238 Views conference, design, design thinking, health

The Design4Health conference is on this week bringing together designers from different fields together with health policy, practice and research

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Design Thinking & Evaluation

November 13, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 1302 Views conference, design, design thinking, developmental evaluation, education, empathy, evaluation, innovation, social innovation, utilization-focused evaluation

What a design-oriented approach to evaluation does is greatly enhance the participant’s sense of the whole, what the needs and desires and fears both parties are dealing with, not just the executive or rational elements. More importantly, this strategy looks at how these different components might interact by simulating a condition in which they might play out.

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Systems Thinking, Logic Models and Evaluation

November 12, 2010 Cameron D. Norman 461 Views complexity, conference, evaluation, systems thinking

The American Evaluation Association conference is on right now in San Antonio and with hundreds of sessions spread over four days it is hard to focus on just one thing. For those interested in systems approaches to evaluation, the conference has had a wealth of learning opportunities.

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