Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
As Donella Meadows has said, “a small shift in one thing can produce big changes.” We have an opportunity to drive positive change because we influence the outcomes of the products and services we design that influence the behavior of people who use them.
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
Designers work from what’s called a brief—a challenge presented to them by a client or collaborator with a more or less straightforward goal. It’s a description of what’s required at the end of the collaboration: a building, a playground, or a product, for example.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Why does design need to be in the boardroom when it can occasionally run the boardroom? Why aren’t there at least a few more designers running Fortune 500 companies? I don’t have an answer for that, but I do know a couple things: I think of myself maybe as a designer, but I’m not a designer the way most of you are, but I designed our business model... See more
Navigating the intersection of design and business: a conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky | Figma Blog
Firms that develop design-driven innovations step back from users and take a broader perspective. They explore how the context in which people live is evolving, both in sociocultural terms (how the reason people buy things is changing) and in technical terms (how technologies, products, and services are shaping that context).