Seeing into the future is fraught with creative issues. While we might know about a future opportunity or situation, what might it feel like? What would it look like if we could ‘try on’ a decision before we bought it? We can. The idea of Identity Dress-Up is a simple visualization exercise that brings together …
Design Thinking is the process we use to conceive our products and guide the process of design. This is the design journey. The benefits of engaging with design thinking go beyond the outcomes and include a variety of outputs. Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the …
If you’re stuck, looking to energize what you do, or reclaim the purpose of your organization or yourself, look to beauty to help you out. Organizational aesthetics is a domain of practice that fuses workplace design, organizational psychology, and strategy. The focus is on beautiful work and, by extension, the health, well-being, and performance of …
If you’re stuck, consider the opportunity to make a mark with your work. Organizations often lack meaning in their work, not capability, when they find themselves stuck. One way to reinvigorate your work, your organization and yourself is to explore the idea of designing for significance. Designing for significance refers to the process of creating …
If you wish to create something new or transform something, you’ll need to design. You must design well if you want that change to achieve something meaningful. What does that mean for designing in the present? What methods and approaches are fit-for-purpose when designing for living systems in the present? The mid 2010s and early …
