This group facilitates the book project "This is Service Design Thinking. basics/tools/cases". Besides an open discussion on this project and map the flow of information regarding this project. Take part and tell us, where you first heard about it!
Discussion on how we value our design thinking...Can we visualise the value of design thinking all over the world? How will these values fluctuate in response to world events and how can we ensure that design thinking is fairly traded?
First things first, the article you referred to is quite interesting, thanks. I think, as this article mentions, there is a difference between calling users designers and giving them contexts to make decisions which add value for them. I think it is…
This article seems to follow a similar logic to yours Mark and yet come to a different conclusion...that what you call little d design is in fact not design at all.
http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1293
Personally, I'm not quite sure what my…
Ok... I think I got you now.
And this way NING (on which Wenovski is built) is a good example of design being enabling. I covered a local New Zealand designer's use of this recently on Design Assembly.
Look forwrad to onwards discussion in this re…
I don't have any great examples at the time being however I will try to make my perspective a little more clear.
I think design, (little d design) which could be roughly described as making appropriate decisions using creative, logical and empathic…
There's a great book by Gordon Bruce about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America. Bruce refers to Noyes as the "Curator of Corporate Culture." There's an entire chapter about how the designers role (Eliot's in-particular…
That sounds rather cool. I should just clarify, when I use the term "curator" I do not really mean exclusively in the sense that they orchestrate exhibitions of other work but that they orchestrate the experience of design that people in the normal…