shelley-ann.com: musings in exploring design + business » services http://shelley-ann.com Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:00:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Design Thinking Mashup http://shelley-ann.com/2011/08/a-design-thinking-mashup/ http://shelley-ann.com/2011/08/a-design-thinking-mashup/#comments Sat, 06 Aug 2011 01:42:02 +0000 Shelley http://shelley-ann.com/?p=3492 Can innovation be reduced to a process? Well that debate has been raging about design thinking for several years. Some think it’s a failure others believe it works. With any process or idea the question ultimately is..does it work? It depends. Not every process works for every situation.

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy. ~ Tim Brown

Here are several articles, resources and videos about design thinking. Some are for it, others describe its failures and other discuss what it is and how to use it.

Design Thinking video from The Institute of Design at Stanford University.

Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, author of Change By Design talks about design thinking in this TED presentation.

So what process works best for you or your organization?



]]> http://shelley-ann.com/2011/08/a-design-thinking-mashup/feed/ 0 The future of user-centered design? http://shelley-ann.com/2009/09/the-future-of-user-centered-design/ http://shelley-ann.com/2009/09/the-future-of-user-centered-design/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:59:07 +0000 Shelley http://shelley-ann.com/?p=868 Since I usually have to explain what I do I was curious how often people search for the term user-centered design using Google. Well the results using Google Insights for Search were actually rather disturbing. It suggests that interest peaked in 2004 and is steadily declining.

Well despite what big man Google has to say I don’t buy it. People are more interested than ever in making products or services that don’t suck. User-centered design can help do that.



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