Smart Cities
Smart cities can seem an odd concept, as it sounds as if the city by itself will improve; the reality is that cities are not just made from concrete, steel, and sensors but are mostly made of people.
Grow vs Manage
To create innovative products and services, companies need to first invest in building a sustainable creative culture where people feel they are growing, rather than being tested.
Creative Frameworks
What is a creative framework?
At its simplest, it is a conceptual tool that allows you to test a concept.
The Problem-First Design Process
What are we building?
Why are we building it?
Who are we building it for?
Work Culture
Focus, Culture, and Space help us think about how to build more sustainable creative workspaces which lead to more innovation, better products, healthier and more profitable businesses, and happier people.
Leadership
Being a good leader is not just about providing a clear goal, it is also about providing the support and the tools, both tactical and conceptual, to help teams learn for themselves.
Creative Culture
Guiding principles to shape the creation of more sustainable design culture. It focuses on defining the problem, shaping product culture and creating a transparent process.
Visual Thinking
Making a sketch is often the first step towards thinking about a design problem.
Innovation
What is innovation?
It seems that every day new products and services are being touted as innovative, but are they really?
I would like to propose a framework to understand and recognize innovation.
Function, Feel, Form
As designers, we need to understand what it means to prototype for function, feel and form so we can refine each to make more coherent designs.
Think like a designer
“What is most valuable to know is not where to look for a particular idea, but how to train the mind in the method by which all ideas are produced.”
- James Young
Competition
To describe a problem is part of the solution. Competition stops you from fully describing the problem because it forces you to play by set rules that narrow your view.
Digital Strategy ?
This collection of articles looks at ways to become more agile, critiques what have come to be seen as best practices, and tries to help you avoid doing things that are actually destructive to your own success.