Fit and Function
Many issues faced in times of change is negotiating fit with function and how shifting one can transform the other.
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Perceptive Advantages
Perception is what distinguishes some of the best innovators from others. There are ways to expand this view and give you the skills needed to see possibility.
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Measuring What Matters: Design Thinking
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
Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.
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Rethink Design Thinking
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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Time for Design Thinking to Grow Up
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.
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Systems of Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping What We Do
Staying safe is about understanding systems that affect our choices, not just individuals. We need to design systems better if we want real change to take place.
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Space, Place, & Creativity
The way we design our spaces and think about them shape what happens in them. We look at four ideas for how to innovate better in space.
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Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox
Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.
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Beautiful Innovation
Aesthetics and beauty are often dismissed, but they can be enormous catalysts and supports for innovation.
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