Stephen P. Anderson: Business needs Design now.

Posted on November 26, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

Stephen´s nice presentation on the Design Thinking 2007 has focused out some good points of how design can play of an important role in creating new business-development processes. I like – and you will too.

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David Armano: Conversation Ecosystem

Posted on October 31, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

Conversation Ecosystem
Twitter allows users to send and receive abbreviated communications or “digital shorthand” from a computer or mobile device. These are called “Tweets.” The open-source nature of the application has spawned countless “mash-ups” where Twitter technology merges seamlessly with other open-source technologies such as Google (GOOG) Maps. Widgets and desktop applications such as Twitteroo and [...]

Human Centered Design (HCD) Is Innovation’s New Secret Weapon

Posted on October 30, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

While every organization talks about how they use new tools to uncover new innovation opportunities, there’s simply not enough practice of HCD in companies’ planning process. User data is no doubt an important source of new product ideas (of what should be designed), which has the potential to redirect a company’s effort towards a [...]

Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional

Posted on October 30, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs (“Pro-Ams,” as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.
Charles Leadbeater’s theories on innovation [...]

Jan Chipchase: Our cell phones, ourselves

Posted on October 29, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our pockets. Along the way, he’s made some unexpected discoveries: about the novel ways illiterate people interface with their cellphones, or the role the cellphone can sometimes play in commerce, or [...]

Business-Design is pushing forward …

Posted on October 29, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

At the World Design Congress, the profession imagined how to bring designers and managers together on issues such as production and sustainability.
Speaking the Language of Business
A problem, of course, is that not all designers have the status or persuasive capabilities of a Seymour or an Esslinger, nor a client that understands the power of good [...]

F.Sleeswijk Visser´s research process

Posted on October 25, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

Sleeswijk Vissers graphic shows the common context mapping process of Designer, Researcher and User. If you think of Designresearch: getting broad first and more focused later on, spread out again, getting new insights and knowledge, focusing again … it´s so real to the nature behaving of what Designers do. Making a step backwards in order [...]

Steve Portigal: Ethnographic research – workshop lessons

Posted on October 24, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

Steve gives us an great view on how to do ethnographic brainstorming – and process on innovated ideas. Great SlideShare and great work out for creating fresh stuff. Dont´t miss his brilliant eagle view on strange things around human daylife in foreign countries on his Flickr site: Steve on Flickr

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John Maeda: “Laws of Simplicity”

Posted on October 22, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art — a place that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art, websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity, he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for [...]

Bruce Nussbaum: How Do You Learn To Be Innovative?

Posted on October 22, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

I get asked that question a lot by people and now I have a pretty good answer–go to the blog of Jon Campbell–Branding and Innovation. Campbell did some amazing work on the Harley Davidson site before deciding to go to the Illinois Institute of Design to get an MDM, Masters of Design Methods. Now he’s [...]

Bruce Nussbaum: Design Vs. Design Thinking.

Posted on October 22, 2007
by Christian Drehkopf

We’re having an excellent conversation about design and design thinking and I’d really like it to continue. If you missed Christopher Fahey’s recent comment, please read it here. It’s an important contribution to the discussion.
“Here’s an idea: A young person goes to an art school or a design school to learn design hands-on among designer [...]