Reducing Drama Through Design Strategy
Design strategy connects our intent to actions and this post looks at how to develop one and use it to shape change in your organization.
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Emotional Honesty in Designing Change
Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions. I recently read an interview between Yancey Strickler and Clare Farrell, co-founder of The Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement that attracted my attention. The interview was part of Strickler’s Ideaspace podcast and titled ‘from hope to
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Design Publics
Design is far too important not to be shared and made as accessible as possible as our future literally depends on it. Design is not a luxury. Design is what will shape our world to come. Our ‘next’ will be designed by us and those design choices will shape who benefits, how, and what influence
Innovation for the Real World
Why does most of what we read about innovation resemble very little of what our work life actually looks like? It is rare to find a profile of an innovation initiative that speaks to the everyday experiences of business, government, healthcare, or non-profit life. Instead, we read cases where there was leadership, time, focus, drive
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Design Psychology and Innovation Fears
Innovation means trying new things and that involves overcoming fear by and through design efforts Of the many barriers to successful innovation, the constellation of fears associated with prototyping and evaluation might be the greatest of them all. This is partly due to the high diving board problem, but also because innovation means learning, making,
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Leadership and Transition
At a time when change seems pervasive leading teams through transitions has never been more important Developmental psychology has many uses beyond understanding how individuals grow and mature — it can be a useful tool for helping frame how organizations do much the same. The parallels between human and organizational growth, evolution, maturity and death
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Disruption and Stability
How to design when we are massively disrupted and still left with this persistent feeling of sameness? Contrast captures our attention and too much or too little is not helpful to us humans. Yet, this is the situation much of the world finds itself in 2021. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reveal
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Energy and Curiosity
Being curious is a means to discovery and innovation and requires an energy that many are finding in short supply. If you’ve ever doubted the idea that focusing on caring for ourselves — the personal psychology and wellbeing of innovators — is worthwhile when discussing innovation consider what drives curiosity, the foundation of discovery and
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Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Our understanding of situations are co-constructed and that means our future is, too. Shaping our future — at least one we want — requires not only thinking about our present situation, but our past, too. This means listening to the stories we tell ourselves and others — and paying attention to the ones we’ve missed
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Developing Creative Confidence With Practice
The means to developing the ability to create useful, valued products and service comes from learning through doing. What is the best way to learn design? Design something. It’s a bit trite to say this, but it’s true. Someone can be a designer having never taken a design course or completed a degree or they
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