Tag: #Import 2024-09-24 14:50
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Searching for the door knob museum
It is likely that many of you reading this have never heard of any door knob museums, let alone being of their existence entirely. Door handle — Wikipedia The location of the door handle along the horizontal axis on the door may vary between a few inches or centimeters away… This is a device that men around…
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The trouble with assuming “innovation” is understood
At Particles Design Lab and District 3, we are constantly having debates about the definitions and roles of design and innovation in society. These are the musings of our Design Strategist, Charlie Gedeon. In light of this article that says something can be called an innovation only after it has proven to add value, I…
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How we inspired organizational change with a one-hour service
This essay is about our recent shift to rapid testing to validate ideas away from assumption-based evaluation, and how that helped our organisation re-evaluate some core offerings and saved us a ton of time. We will go over the role of connecting the dots between serendipitous events, how we tracked the value of what we…
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A class in user-centred design for engineers
This summer, I will be tackling a challenge that has thus far been unprecedented to me: teaching design thinking and user-centred design concepts to graduate level engineering students. While this was daunting at first, I have to think of it as a two-pronged applied research endeavor. The first is an ethnography on engineering students and…
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“Design” in Design Thinking is there to get your attention
Making accessible the creativity that designers typically practice in their jobs in order to allow anyone to innovate has fortunately become in vogue over the past few years. The unfortunate part is that rather than package this creativity in a friendly ‘Ages 2 and up’ box, it got called Design Thinking and simultaneously all designers…