http://www.bplusd.org Business + Design Tue, 13 May 2008 20:51:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here’s the slides from my Business of Experience workshop at DocTrain West…. | View | Upload your own http://www.bplusd.org/2008/05/13/doctrain-west-slides/ I’m teaching a 1/2 day workshop Business of Experience: Hands-On Methods to Increase Your Influence at DocTrain West this Friday…if you’re in Vancouver and want to hang out, I’m around a bit Thursday evening and Friday afternoon…. http://www.bplusd.org/2008/05/07/heading-to-vancouver-tomorrow/ 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 ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/24/down-with-innovation/ Here’s the simple model that I use to explain the design approach: Understand, Solve, and Evaluate (U.S.E.). This model generalizes to all kinds of framing and problem solving situations, not just product design. If you’d like to use the diagram yourself, I’m releasing it under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/23/understand-solve-evaluate/ 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 ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/22/business-fluency/ So, a lot of our early work with clients and stakeholders involves creating artifacts that symbolize the system, rather than the literal representation of a prototype or sketch. That includes things like stories, or design the box and other design games. I see this in a lot of the generative ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/21/its-not-prototyping-its-not-sketching-itsartifacting/ Just thinking about current demands, and the halcyon days when I could take a look at the DUX 2003 conference site (where I chaired a panel session on constraints) and think that just the right thing to do was create this. Of course, a couple months later I went and ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/17/boy-i-used-to-have-more-spare-time/ I’ll be in Miami this week for the Information Architecture Summit. I’ll be teaching a day-long workshop on the Business of Experience: Building Buy-in So You Can Deliver Great Products and Services. During the main conference, I’m also talking about a model for designers to think about business in a ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/04/08/heading-to-miami/ When Bruce Nussbaum called out the iPhone platform as a pillar to fight recession, and then defended his selection by pointing to Kleiner Perkin’s iFund, he committed a classic error in assessing innovation opportunity: he focused on the elephant, and overlooked the ant. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to visit ... http://www.bplusd.org/2008/03/30/the-elephant-the-ant-and-the-iphone/ We have dates for CanUX 2008. Our annual Canadian User Experience workshop will be held November 16-18, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Looking forward to pulling the program together, with that blend of hands-on and big picture thinking that makes it a yearly personal highlight. http://www.bplusd.org/2008/03/30/dates-for-canux-2008/