Songlines: Part One
Bruce Chatwin’s book, The Songlines, inspired me to think how I might design an application that would enable composers to…
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The Stack of Sedition
Tinder’s use of a very familiar mental model – a stack of cards – is break through design work. Like…
Old Organizational Models
I’m still surprised to see ad agencies struggle after nearly 20 years but it occurred to me a few weeks…
Defining a Minimally Viable Experiment
Using Maslow to define need states, there is a hypothetical starter set of desirable features or services that, over time, are…
Reframing as a tool for innovation
Reframing – a tool for rapid innovation Reframing a question involves looking at the question from a different perspective and…
The Monkey Mind
Thoughts being those random things that jet around our heads. Attachment being the tension/reaction when becoming aware of the thought.…
Story Mapping
This time with a financial services client. Always fun to do with clients whose product or service impacts our everyday…
Design Workshops
Did a design workshop the other day. It was a very useful way for the team to build consensus and…
Story Mapping
Getting better with using the color stickies. This one was for a story mapping session with our IBM client.
Learning Loops
What data wants – creating learning loops to bring the customer closer. Top diagram represents a typical state – bottom…
Cultures of Learning
Where the opportunity presents itself and the stakeholders/community/company respond with a whole bunch of ideas in response. Develop a governance…
Story Mapping in Singapore
Spoke to a large gathering of our Asia Pacific team in Singapore this past week. Took them through story mapping…
Adventures in Storymapping
Story mapping is a facilitated group activity that empowers teams to think empathically and uncover opportunities to create valued products…
The Saw Mill Sasquatch – an intro
This is the story of the Saw Mill Sasquatch. May he rest in peace. He was the last of his…
Inflection Points
I Wore Glass
Last week I discovered that we had a pair at work so I went and tried them out today. It…
What’s up with Google Search on Mobile?
Seen below Google has three different search experiences on my iPhone and I’m not sure which result to trust. I’m…
Presence
Mobile applications sort themselves out into various categories – but nearly all have one desire in common – they’d like…
Entrepreneurialism – from a cultural point of view
I sent along my post in response to Friedman’s article to a close friend who works for the world’s largest…
Thomas Friedman’s article – NYTimes – Need a job? Invent it!
This is mandatory reading for us parents who are looking for ways to give our kids a leg up in…