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Notes and thoughts from a product strategist and designer exploring the space between curiosity, craft, and the changing tools we make things with.

Loved

Architecture swallows violence. The streets are washed clean. The walls patched. The holes filled. The windows repaired. And the names…

Songlines: Part One

Bruce Chatwin’s book, The Songlines, inspired me to think how I might design an application that would enable composers to…

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…

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

Learning Loops

What data wants – creating learning loops to bring the customer closer. Top diagram represents a typical state – bottom…

Cultures of Learning

building a culture 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

Story mapping is a facilitated group activity that empowers teams to think empathically and uncover opportunities to create valued products…

I Wore Glass

Last week I discovered that we had a pair at work so I went and tried them out today. It…

Presence

Mobile applications sort themselves out into various categories – but nearly all have one desire in common – they’d like…