29Jul09
This is the first in a series of tips, tricks and recipes for designers, artists and other visual thinkers working in meetings and other sessions where large amounts of complex information need to be collected and visualized. It’s a peek into how XPLANE approaches discovery and uses visual thinking to communicate key ideas.
Why we do it:
Live sketching gets people engaged in the discovery process and leads to ideas that may not have presented themselves via normal note-taking. The response to visuals being created before a clients’ or colleagues’ eyes is energetic, and that leads to a natural desire to fill in the picture, completely. The result: Understanding and alignment, quickly.
to know what are the steps? just click on the link below. and personally me, i don’t think “designers” is the right word to say anyone and everyone should be doing this. talking and writing is very leftside thinking. doodling and sketching is very rightside thinking. so to get the best energy out, people need to do both. again this goes back to my philosophy of talking vs doing.
via xBlog: The visual thinking weblog » 5 live sketching tips every designer should know.
22Jul09
I found this article to be very direct and short to the point about the meaning and definition of storytelling by designers. Why it is needed and the value everyone can get from it. The link to the full article is below.
In my view, design is not just about making things. Design is a social, collaborative activity. The day when one person conceived, developed, produced, and sold a designed object is largely gone. Much design — particularly interaction design — occurs in the context of a large organization, or is distributed among a number of smaller organizations. Design is a distributed social process, and, as such, communication plays a vital role.Consider some examples. A key part of interaction design involves communicating effectively with the intended users. The more effectively the design team can elicit needs from users, get feedback on various prototypes, etc., the better the final design. Similarly, there is a requirement for effective communication within the design team. Team members must reflect on the state of the design, develop critiques of problems, suggest alternative solutions, and so forth. Particularly in interaction design, where team members may be drawn from a variety of backgrounds, good communication is vital. Finally, the design team must communicate effectively with the larger organization of which it is a part. No design can really be said to be successful if it doesn’t make it out the door. The team must succeed in convincing upper management of the design project’s validity a process which may be repeated throughout the life cycle of the design, and, if successful, the team must be able to communicate the key aspects of the design to those who will implement, manufacture, market, and distribute it.
via Storytelling.html.
14Jul09
The Perelin series from Markus Becker 2009 is composed of 3-dimensional, self-supporting, stable luminous objects. Its clean, but at the same time flowing design is effected through the use of a special glossy electroluminescent glow sheet. These lights made from EL-foil are very light, thin and flexible, almost like paper.
via Perelin by Markus Becker @ Dailytonic.
13Jul09
this is a mental note for myself about the issue with the terminology of design thinking and what it means for all of us who are desigeners, MBAs, and engineers, or any other words…. ALL OF US!
i run the issue with the word design, because it is a jargon terminology which can very much backfire in any discussion you have. Time and again i have to explain what this jargon means to many types of people because no one bothers to either explain it or state the meaning correctly.
And the inside secret about this jargon, as designers it means MANY DEFINITIONS so it matters to who you are talking too when they explain it.
I keep my definition very short but allow the person to ask more questions. “Design is the substance to which people are engaged.” So with that, it allows for the people to ask a question which helps me to define it further for their background.
Another words, i need to know who you are and where you fit into this world of process development. Allowing me to define the term design in your language for you to better understand.
The word design is soo mysterious because no one wish to define it for you. And mystery make you want it more…. that is a marketing gimic… in theory we are making you ache for “design”
….Indeed, this soul-searching by business — for literally a better soul — has lead to design, but robbing the soul of design by asserting an assumed control of Design Thinking will only lead to sugarcoating a fundamentally flawed system that is in serious need of criticism and modification.I do believe that the new model for business orientation is — in fact — Design Orientation on the road to customer value maximization, leading to repairing the damage done to our socioeconomic fabric and ultimately saving the soul of business.Design Orientation is the proper language to use when honestly admitting that business needs to orient itself toward a different direction of doing business.Design Orientation acknowledges the role of design in business and promotes collaboration between management and designers at the highest rungs of the decision making ladder, emoting a shift toward a new social and hierarchical order.
via Raymond Pirouz | Design is Fundamental™ tumblr, Design Thinking is Dead. Long Live Design Orientation..
10Jul09
Okay, really i am not an expert in the field of UX design and many really have better grasp of what user experience design is about.
In the end, my simple explanation: it is about you the person doing an action with an object. We the “designers” analyze these events.
(and i have to say designer is not the right jargon for this terminology because today everyone associated with that word designer as someone who is artistic – or can draw! which is not really the case. engineers, business, mathematicians, etc etc who cares/empathize with humanity are in a way the designers)
but i saw this several days ago and you really have to go to the flickr page of iA to see how they split this diagram into different conversations of all the roles people play in this process of user experience design. If gives clarity to what we do, but also allows to make better questions to wonder if this is what we are doing or how we should improve ourselves.
Flickr Photo Download: The Spectrum of User Experience: Preparing the next blog entry.
10Jul09
okay this presentation sunk into my head for days, and it has a good affect on you when trying to understand design strategy in its simplest term.
via Design Strategy.
08Jul09
This is worth a look at… if you are into design thinking. very clear for all types of people trying to understand design in terms of business models, and how to think about your business future.
via Applying design thinking principles in product management.
08Jul09
a while back Mark Rolston the chief creative officer at Frog presented his ideas and theories about design strategy and its future.
via Mark Rolston@DMI: Embrace the Coarse Process.
07Jul09
This guys (the firm kaleidoscope) has a nice way of how to digest a trend report. take a look.
via Strategic Aesthetics.
01Jul09
This is one of the best presentation by a start up design consultant i have seen. Literally they are just starting… you can see their website saying that. link is below. I love their design business model which case a consult that uses students to give “ideo, smart, frog, and continuum” mind set. but think for a moment. those companies can only hire X amount of people and there are tons of people out there that can do what they do. THIS IS AWESOME!
via smallFISH.