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300: Crises in Complexity, Opportunities in Design

August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 88 Views architecture, blogging, complexity, design, design for emergence, developmental design, developmental evaluation, emergence, Globe and Mail, Hannah Montana, maker culture, making-meaning, media, Miley Cyrus, Monocle, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Nautilus Magazine, newspapers, policy, Robin Thicke, science, social media, The Alpine Review, Vi Hart, weak signals, wicked problem

In 2009 Censemaking was launched as a platform to explore issues in complexity and ways we can make sense of

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Design Thinking, Design Making

August 13, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 137 Views Alvar Aalto, Artek, business, complexity, craft, design, Design Observer, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, Dieter Rams, education, empathy, evaluation, Finland, good design, innovation, maker culture, military, principles for good design, quality, Roger Martin, systems thinking, US Army

Designing and thinking
Critics of design thinking suggest that it forgets making while advocates suggest that it extends itself beyond the traditional constraints of design’s focus on the brief. What separates the two is still the implications associated with making something and the question: can we be good designer thinkers without being design makers? This post looks at the relationship between design thinking and making.

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Fashionably Thinking About Systems and Consumption

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 146 Views Bangladesh, behaviour change, business, business model innovation, complexity, Crowd Supply, denim, design, design thinking, Etsy, fashion, Flint and Tinder, Gustin, innovation, Kickstarter, Kurt Lewin, maker culture, manufacturing, organizational change, Patagonia, psychology, supply chain management, systems thinking, wicked problem

In April 2013 the world was horrified to learn that more than one thousand people were killed in a Bangladeshi

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