Tag: DesignThinking

Framing Design Decisions

Shall we go to the Italian or the Mexican restaurant? Shall we go to the Mexican or the Italian restaurant? Shall we go to the Italian or the…

Playing poker by the rules of noughts and crosses

This week I am writing about how we make decisions in design. I’ve written before about David Snowden’s way of describing systems using a games analogy (see reference…

Does power support change?

Earlier this week I wrote about designers needing to understand the conditions for change. What enables change and what blocks it. If we understand organisational culture as how…

What’s holding the current situation in place?

Design is about making change. Our aim is to turn an existing situation into a better situation. Sometimes that might be about designing a new thing. But other…

Designers as insiders

This post has moved. It now lives on the Constructivist blog: read the updated version → Eiffel Over is now my stage for engineering-related clowning, singing, dancing and…

Designers as outsiders

This post has moved. It now lives on the Constructivist blog: read the updated version → Eiffel Over is now my stage for engineering-related clowning, singing, dancing and…

On the Ultraviolet Catastrophe and teaching design

This post has moved. It now lives on the Constructivist website: read the updated version → Eiffel Over is now my stage for engineering-related clowning, singing, dancing and…

Design versus Shopping

If the client knows exactly what they want at the start of a design process, then it isn’t design – it’s shopping. Shopping for the answer that you’ve…