So, I.D. magazine published this trolling article, and I can’t resist linking to Down with Innovation, precisely because it (unintentionally) makes so many of my points about business fluency for me.
I sympathize that design thinking is getting a lot of attention the business press, leaving design doing without the love it deserves. But this sort […]
Eating lunch with my friend Matthew Milan last week in Miami, he turned to me and said "you need to blog more". Thanks for the encouragement :) I completely agree, and to build some personal momentum will be surfacing some of my ongoing interests and themes that got bplusd started three years ago this month. […]
Manuel Saez picks up on the Designer as CEO meme on the FC Blog. And positively, he doesn’t just focus on whether Jonathan Ive would be good for Apple - he looks at the bigger picture and asks if designers *in general* should sit in the C-suites. That’s an important distinction - it separates individual […]
Dear Apple Directors,
You are one of the most successful boards in corporate America. Apple stock is continually climbing. The company is admired on Wall Street and in countless boardrooms for its product portfolio and high margins. The business model and dominant marketshare of the iPod ecosystem transformed the entertainment industry, first with music and now […]
I should note - while my last post breaks down Pampers Kandoo wipes using the design maturity model, I’ve never actually bought the product (we’re not that far along in our own toddler experience yet). So I was interested to see the product in the wild when I was invited over to […]
So, something that I’ve been thinking about is how the different elements of the design maturity model (Style, Form+Function, Problem Solving, and Framing) can be used as filters to look at and understand a product.
I’ve broken down Pampers Kandoo Flushable Wipes to illustrate. Kandoo is P&G’s line of toilet training products for use by toddlers […]
Meredith Davis heads up one of the few Ph.D. programs in design in the United States. I was surprised and thrilled to read her recent AIGA interview about the state of design education, where she references my design maturity continuum to discuss the challenges and opportunities for design education today. Wow!
Advocating for greater design maturity can be frustrating - it seems that design will perenially be pigeonholed as the craft of making things pretty. This morning I’ve spent some time thinking about the root causes that lead to design being boxed in, and I’ve come up with a couple ideas. I’d like to hear more […]
So, I wrote in 2005 about why most designers aren’t design thinkers, yet. Unfortunately, I think that the rising popularity of design, innovation, and design thinking has actually been detrimental and limiting the growth of the industry’s design maturity.
The reason: as more and more coverage has been devoted to these topics, many designers have assumed […]
The design mindset can help with the world’s wicked problems. Worldchanging is one place that is tackling the same issues, and helps keep us aware of these deeply meaningful challenges that transcend the interesting, but less globally critical impacts of corporate strategy and product design. Now the folks at Worldchanging have brought out a profoundly […]
