Designing for Humans: Considerations for Innovators
When we design for humans we create things that seem ridiculous in advance, are weird, and yet later are consider clever. This means taking humans as they are, not how we want them to be.
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Seeing Futures: The Long Now Approach
No one can see the future, but we can gain a glimpse of what might come and how what we are doing today might take us there by using this technique or tool called The Long Now. The Long Now involves taking an idea that might be on the horizon or emerging and envisioning what …
Forecasting
Forecasts are useful tools to help us see into the near term. We profile this method to help people get started.
Innovation Design Quality Control
You want and need help in transforming your organization or business line and are seeking a consultant to help you. What should you look for? Let’s look at questions and issues you may want to consider when starting an innovation journey. We break it down into three (plus) areas: Design research and foresight, service development, …
What Went Wrong? A Question For Futures Insight
In five years, what did we get wrong? This simple question can be a powerful vehicle for understanding the way in which things in the future might — and might not — unfold. Foresight is a complicated process as we are asking to see into a horizon that hasn’t yet taken place. Rather than predict …