Three Metrics for Design Evaluation
Three design metrics can assess whether we are creating things of value or simply leading us down the wrong path.
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Thinking Frameworks
You might have heard or read about concepts like Systems Thinking and Design Thinking (both with and without capital letters) and asked yourself: what do they mean? We see both of these are frameworks for thinking about problems. It’s somewhat confusing, but both systems thinking and design thinking are more than just ways of thinking,
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Practical Systems Thinking: The Cynefin Framework
The Cynefin Framework is among the most widely used frameworks for understanding how systems are organized. It might be the most practical means of bringing systems thinking to life. A system, after all, is simply an organization of things within some constraint or boundary. We rely on The Cynefin Framework (pronounced /kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in) as a
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Using Decision Canvases
You might have noticed that the world seems to be awash in canvases these days. The canvas model owes much of its popularity to the work of Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur and their Business Model Canvas. A canvas is a form of system mapping that visualizes critical aspects of a system and organizes them.
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Falling In Love With Your Challenge
Humans are strongly motivated by two forces: love and money*. When pursuing change and seeking to better things we often look at ways to gain more money as the solution, but what about love? What if we fell in love with our challenge? (*Money can be a proxy for security, safety, and opportunity.) Love as
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