Tag Archives: design thinking

Reflections on the betacup design challenge

16 Jun 2010 – 8:08

I kinda can’t believe how far we’ve come with the betacup project. One year ago, I was at Overlap ’09 where I met Toby Daniels and his craaaazy idea to change the way we drink coffee. I hopped on board, brainstormed at Overlap, wrote a little blog post…and suddenly here we are today, announcing the [...]

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Enterprise social search: a design workshop in San Francisco

19 Apr 2010 – 8:07

This just in! Will Evans and I are putting on a design workshop in San Francisco around the theme of enterprise social search. The workshop will be an all-day affair on Friday May 7 at the Bolt | Peters offices, near the Civic Center. Detailed information and registration can be found here: http://socialsear.ch Why Enterprise [...]

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The betacup design challenge for a sustainable community

1 Apr 2010 – 8:17

The betacup design contest launches today! This no April Fool’s joke! My good pal Will Evans and I wrote this call-to-action the other day — I’m reposting it here. Submissions are already rolling in! (Check ‘em out here!) ————– It’s been said that design shapes behavior; and in user experience (UX) design, behavior informs design which [...]

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Putting the craft in design thinking

31 Jan 2010 – 15:50

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, [...]

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Aiming for Innovation: Living Design in a Business World

12 Dec 2009 – 13:27

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 [...]

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