Surfacing Invisible Rules
A simple set of questions can help your innovation before you start your project. You can save years of pain and problems and see beyond the fence into the pool of opportunity beyond.
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Visual Thinking
Service and product design involves creating something, envisioning it’s use, consideration of its effects, and hopefully seeing it achieve a goal. When we are creating or planning our project we need to consider all of that on top of the many ideas we have about what that product or service ought to involve. That is
Creating Design Pathways for Learning
Capturing learning requires a focus on the journey, not end. Thinking like a designer can shape what we learn and how. Learning is both a journey and a destination and it’s through recognizing this that we can better facilitate intentional, deliberative learning to support innovation and development. By approaching this journey through the lens of
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Innovation’s Single Biggest Question
There is not a bigger question for innovators — social, product, service, policy — than What are you hiring this [ ] to do for you? Let’s break this down a little and then explain why we ask that at the beginning of any engagement and all throughout from the first meeting to the final run
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Design Skills for Evaluators: Design Loft 2017
The Design Loft @ AEA 2017 The Design Loft returns to the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference on Friday, November 10th. The Design Loft will be held on the Mezzanine Level of the conference hotel (note: an earlier program had the Design Loft located on the Exhibition Level). There is a new session every hour.
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