More thoughts arising from our class in the d.school on Transformative Design. I have always liked Don Norman’s ideas and attitude. A couple of weeks ago at Core 77 he questioned the feasibility of human-centered design – [Link] In today’s connected world and global market, he argues, culture matters little to design. Designers should center their…
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d.school storytelling (continued)
from Nicole Kahn’s (IDEO) talk last week about need finding and ethnography
designing for change?
Our class in Stanford d.school is “Transformative Design” [Link] – design that makes a difference – design that changes things. If we want design to change what people do, we need to understand why people do what they do. While this is a very broad question that has generated many responses in many disciplines, it…
creative spaces
I have just received a copy of Make space: How to set the stage for creative collaboration, from Stanford d.school’s Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft – [Link] It is about the wonderful environment of the Peterson Building, home of the d.school, how it came to look the way it does, with its customized fittings, studios,…
In theory: the death of literature
An intelligent feature in The Guardian by Andrew Gallix on Tuesday 10 January. The topic – “we’ve heard it all before” – [Link]. “We come too late to say anything which has not been said already,” lamented La Bruyère at the end of the 17th century. The fact that he came too late even to…
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