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The Complexity of Planning and Design in Social Innovation

Cameron D. Norman 150 Views , , , , , , , ,

Both developmental design and evaluation work together to provide data required to allow program planners to constantly adapt their offerings to meet changing conditions, thus avoiding the problem of having outcomes becoming decoupled from program activities and working with complexity rather than against it. For example, developmental evaluation can determine what are the key attractors shaping program activities while developmental design can work with those attractors to amplify them or dampen them depending on the level of beneficial coherence they offer a program. In two joined processes we can acknowledge complexity while creating more realistic and responsive plans.

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design thinking health promotion innovation 

The Design of Health

Cameron D. Norman 131 Views , , , , ,

The social challenges from chronic disease, environmental threats, social migration, aging populations, economic disparities, and a more globalized, multicultural world require strategies that bring the best ideas to the table, strategies to realize them, and values that make these actions more equitable for everyone. Health promotion + design is one way to achieve this.

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design thinking health promotion public health social systems 

Design for Sex, Gender and Health (Celebrating International Women’s Day)

Cameron D. Norman 95 Views , , , , , , , ,

Bringing design and health promotion closer together has the potential to do women and everyone better by considering the locations — social and physical — in which sex influences health and wellbeing and consciously designing situations that improve it. As we celebrate this International Women’s Day, it is worth considering ways to make sex and gender more conscious in our work and how we might design for both at a foundational level.

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complexity design thinking eHealth health promotion public health social media 

Complexity, Interaction Design and Social Media

Cameron D. Norman 175 Views , , , , , , , , , ,

Social media, like all human activities, involves designed interactions in a complex environment. How we design for this space is as much about the social as it is the media.

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art & design behaviour change complexity design thinking health promotion systems science systems thinking 

Behaviour and Bodies, Systems and Design

Cameron D. Norman 76 Views , , , , , , , ,

Drawing connections between our bodies and our behaviour reveals systems thinking in new ways that can lend themselves to contemplating greater ways to consider the relationship between design and its consequences on human health.

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behaviour change complexity design thinking health promotion psychology social systems systems thinking 

A Complex View of New Year’s Resolutions

Cameron D. Norman 111 Views , , , , , , , ,

By paying attention — being mindful — of what you’re doing and how it is working, you can start to build a longer-term strategy or pattern of activity that moves you along to where you want to go. It also prevents you from the let down at having not achieved your goals, but setting yourself up for success rather than failure. These kinds of strategies address the complexity of human lives and provide a useful replacement for New Year’s Resolutions.

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