This was originally posted on Unstructure on January 30 2010, as a guest author.
Is design thinking really that hard? There is obviously a growing acceptance of the notion behind design thinking as the previous essays and comments pointed out. But it remains that there is no formula for design thinking, and because of that, design [...]
Last week I spoke at BayCHI on the topic of “design thinking” — specifically how design thinking can be used for innovation in businesses. I co-presented the talk with my good friend and fellow interaction designer, Krista Sanders. Our talk was followed by an awesome presentation on “structured ideation” by Gayle Curtis.
Our Abstract: In this [...]
Our last Overlap SF meetup was held at Adaptive Path last Wednesday. This short video recaps our session:
Overlap SF from Brynn Evans on Vimeo.
This is what we do: we have fun, we create stuff, and we live by the cardinal rule of DON’T OVER THINK IT!!
Come join us!
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I’ve been reading Bill Tancer’s book Click. He works for a company called HitWise that has access to millions of search terms from across the web — by finding trends in these queries, he claims that we can learn about people’s actual motivations, interests, behaviors, and, even, fears.
A word before I go on: I generally think [...]
“I grabbed a cup of instant from the hospitality table on the second morning of orientation. It was piping hot and I was in a hurry, so I stuck an ice cube in, but then a friend hailed me and began chatting; by the time we parted, I was holding a cup of watery lukewarm [...]
