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Design Thinking has given the design profession and society at large all the benefits it has to offer and is beginning to ossify and actually do harm.
Bruce Nussbaum kills ‘Design Thinking’ which he helped define and promote for many years at Business Week. He says it time to move on to something new, which he defines as ‘Creative Intelligence’. He has some good points (and so does the 80+ commenters), but I can’t help feel that he is more motivated to sell his new book due out next year, than anything else.
Oh well, I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that these terms change. My main concern is that it makes it difficult to define what we do, for people (clients) who’s not so updated on all the design and innovation jargon.
“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
Steve Jobs (via carbonmade)
RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms
Interesting and well animated talk by Sir Ken Robinson on the need to change or education system. I think we’re a little better here in welfare Denmark than the average american school, but still lots of food for thoughts in this. If you have 11:40 and care about how we shape the next generation.
I especially liked his point about the arts and the holistic and aesthetic experience vs. that of the anaesthetic approach of many schools.
Jack Cheng explains how to max out your love-growth-cash triangle. Interesting and inspiring reading (for me at the moment at least).
Might have phrased it a little different, but it pretty much sums it up.
Reblogged from countrygirlblogs
Service design afterthoughts
About a month ago I was interviewed for a case video on the service design work we did for The Danish Pension company PFA as part of the DESINOVA project. The interview made me think of what we as designers brought to the project and what experience we gained from working with such a large organization. While we wait for the project to unfold at PFA and the Desinova project to wrap up, you can read some of my afterthoughts on project.
