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Design | Sprint

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 345 Views agile, design research, design sprint, design thinking, Facebook, human-centred design, innovation, kevin richard, Mark Zuckerberg, service design, speed, time

Design sprints are created for technical systems, not human ones. We need better research and attention to human-centred principles if we are to achieve the aims of rapid innovation in a responsible manner.

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Ties That Bind and Release Innovation

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 531 Views brainstorming, collaboration, design thinking, ideas, innovation, social networks, technology, workplace

Remote working tools for collaboration can shape our culture of innovation or we can shape the tools themselves, the choice is ours, by design.

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Beyond The Whiteboard & Sticky Notes

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1414 Views design thinking, evaluation, impact, innovation, learning

Design thinking is much more than its tools. It’s time to look at what it actually does and how to go beyond the tools to see its real impact.

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Agile Innovation?

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 613 Views agile, Dave Snowden, design thinking, innovation, strategy, systems innovation, systems thinking

An agile approach to innovation is intended to be flexible and dynamic, but it can also be flaky if we’re

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Sensemaking, Design and Innovation

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 440 Views complexity, covid-19, design thinking, innovation, learning, policy, public health, sensemaking, The RSA, tribes, wicked problems

We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline

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Measuring What Matters: Design Thinking

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 495 Views data, design, design ethics, design thinking, ethics, evaluation, measurement, psychology, race, weird

Measurement can be a trick to deflect us from what matters most, which often can’t be measured. I recently saw

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Five Hundred

August 20, 2020August 20, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1168 Views design, design thinking, education, learning, psychology, self-care

Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.

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Rethink Design Thinking

August 17, 2020August 18, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 516 Views covid-19, design, design ethics, design practice, design thinking, ethics

Design thinking might need a re-think as we continue to see it used in ways it probably never should be.

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Incubation and Echoes

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 393 Views cognitive science, complexity, covid-19, design thinking, Liz Weaver, psychology, sensemaking, sketch map, strategic design, systemic design, systems thinking, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, The RSA, toolkit, visual thinking

Systems change requires the kind of tools and mindset shifts that can move how and what we see to act better. We profile various strategies to help you do that.

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Time for Design Thinking to Grow Up

August 6, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 674 Views design, design science, design thinking, evaluation, evidence, research, social psychology, theory

Design thinking is ready to evolve to the next stage with evidence, case studies, definitions and theories. We look at the current state of the science, art, and practice.