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Environmental Effects and Change-Making

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 244 Views 0 Comments beauty, behaviour change, built environment, design, design thinking, environment, healthcare, hospitals, innovation, organizational aesthetics, podcast, Steven De Groot

There are reasons people read or scroll through content on beautiful places and spaces; it inspires us to create. Our

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Culture Transitions and Transformations

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 231 Views 0 Comments beauty, behaviour change, change, change leadership, complexity, culture, design, evaluation, health, health promotion, innovation, organizational change, organizational learning, psychology

It’s been said by (maybe) Peter Drucker and (definitely) the Internet that culture eats strategy for breakfast. This quote’s truth

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Policy Design For Human Behaviour

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 305 Views 0 Comments design, health, policy, public health, systems thinking

Policies are meant to guide human behaviour and introduce constraints at a collective level and that means understanding how humans

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Models, Frameworks, and Theories (Oh, My!)

March 7, 2022March 15, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 446 Views 0 Comments complexity, design, design thinking, evaluation, evidence, innovation, theory

Models, frameworks and theories are meant to guide what we do, yet they can also obscure what needs doing. The

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Toward Real Human Futures and Foresight

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 425 Viewscovid-19, design, foresight, futures, information, politics, russia, strategic foresight, ukraine, war

At the time of this writing, Russia has just invaded Ukraine, protesters have just left a 3-week occupation of the

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On Designing For Humans

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 336 Viewsdesign, design for humans, design thinking, innovation, organizational change, organizational development, podcast, scott millar, systems thinking

Designing for Humans sounds like an obvious statement for designers, but very often we design things for things — systems,

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Bringing People Into the Design Process

February 2, 2022February 2, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 340 Viewscense, collaboration, design, design for humans, participatory design, podcast, scott millar

I recently had a conversation with Scott Millar, host of the Cool Collaborations podcast, about design and collaboration and how

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Tricks with Tips

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 259 Viewsbehavioural science, complexity, design, design thinking, designer, evaluation, innovation, learning, new years resolutions, psychology, strategy, toolkit

The proliferation of ‘tips and tricks’ for boosting change-making and innovation efforts obscures the craft and commitment that transformation requires.

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What is Evaluation? (And Why You Should Care)

January 27, 2022January 27, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 610 Viewsdesign, evaluation, impact, innovation, learning

Evaluation is a term that requires some rehabilitation. The term isn’t incorrect or outdated, just poorly understood and not much

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Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 344 Viewsattention, cognition, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, decision making, design, education, information, information design, information overload, learning, learning design, psychology, systems thinking, time

It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can

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Design’s Inspiring Possibility

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Systems Thinking Practice: Starting Out

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