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These are important principles, but they ignore the problems of sustainability, inequity, and bias. In addition, the emphasis is usually on the immediate issues, not the long-term impact. In other words, they describe the way we did things in the past, not the issues in this book, and not the way we need to do things in the future.
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Swivel to Sustainability: A Guidebook to Full Systems Business TransformationTheir words
Sustainability is now part of the stated goals of numerous companies, but if you are the person responsible for accomplishing the promise, Swivel to Sustainability is the guidebook you need.
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Make the World a Better Place: Design with Passion, Purpose, and ValuesTheir words
Kozma’s book is such a great complement to Design for a Better World that we banded together, and with two other like-minded individuals are presenting a panel discussion of our books and an international design conference (IASDR 2023). My book provides a high-level overview, including the importance of history and past events. Kozma provides excellent case studies and examples: the two books support each other so much, that I recommend reading and using both.
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How Big Things Get DoneTheir words
After I discovered this book, I wrote to Flyvbjerg saying that I wished I had read his book before writing mine because it would have made mine better
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Design Journeys through Complex Systems: Practice Tools for Systemic DesignTheir words
The result is a powerful description and recommendation for taming the otherwise overwhelming complexity of methods and meetings into a coherent sensemaking process that sets the standard for these new skills and methods. All designers involved in these essential societal issues and instructors in design classes that address these need this book.
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The Impact Plan: Rethinking Today, Remaking Tomorrow, Designing a Better WorldTheir words
Anyone who pays attention to the news knows that the world is facing multiple crises. Many of us ask, what can I do to help? If you are one of those people, The Impact Plan is the book for you, providing powerful, yet easy-to-use tools that guide you through the hero’s journey, successfully attacking some of the world’s major problems, while still being yourself, an ordinary person in extraordinary times.
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Livable Proximity: Ideas for the City That CaresTheir words
Manzini redefines proximity for the digital age, revealing a delightful, creative, sociable way of living. New, yet familiar, merging tradition with technology. Feasible.
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I consider this an extremely powerful and convincing book. However, although the reviewers praise it as "easy to read," I found it slow-going.
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I love the subtitle of this book: Thinking as behavioral scientists, acting as designers.
26 July 2019
From one piece People-Centered (Not Tech-Driven) Design 2 beliefs · jnd.org
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Instead of having people do the parts of a task that machines are bad at, let’s reverse the process and have machines do the parts that people are bad at. Instead of requiring people to work on technology’s terms, require the machines to work on human terms.
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Human error is blamed for over 90 percent of industrial and automobile accidents. It is the leading cause of aviation accidents, and medical error is reported to be the third-largest cause of death in the entire United States. Horrifying? Yes, but why do we label it “human error”? It is design error.
23 July 2019
From one piece The Four Fundamental Principles of Human-Centered Design and Application 2 beliefs · jnd.org
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If the people can decide, even if they come up with the same, identical solution as the expert people or machines, they will trust them, implement them, and abide with them.
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Solve the fundamental, underlying issues, not the symptoms. We recommend starting with field studies and observations of actual practice (an applied ethnography). Ask “why?” at each issue.
22 July 2019
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We challenge this approach. It encourages design by committee and infuses a superficial sense of collaboration that leads to compromises and weakens ideas. Our view, the product of years of studies of and participation in innovation projects, is that effective teams do not defer critical reflection; they create through criticism.
20 September 2014
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Affordances control what actions are possible. For designers, signifiers are far more important. Signifiers are how communication takes place, how one signals the appropriate controls and operations.
19 March 2013
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Design thinking is a public relations term for good, old-fashioned creative thinking. It is not restricted to designers. Great artists, great engineers, great scientists all break out of the boundaries. Great designers are no different.
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As a result, I have changed my mind: Design Thinking really is special. Alas, it isn't embraced by all designers, but where it exists, it is powerful.
From one piece Rethinking Design Thinking 2 beliefs · core77.com
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Breakthroughs come from questioning the obvious, and the outsider's stupid question is where that power lies.Their words
It is by questioning the obvious that we make great progress. This is where breakthroughs come from. We need to question the obvious, to reformulate our beliefs, and to redefine existing solutions, approaches, and beliefs. That is design thinking.
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I was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.
5 December 2009
From one piece Technology First, Needs Last 3 beliefs · jnd.org
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The most frequent business gains come from small incremental innovations, while most revolutionary innovations fail.Their words
But if you examine the business impact of innovation, you will soon discover that the most frequent gains come from the small, incremental innovations, changes that lower costs, add some simple features, and smooth out the rough edges of a product.
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Technology first, invention second, needs last.
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I’ve come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs.
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