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The Design Journal is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of design practice, theory, management and education. The journal maintains a rigorous process of double-blind refereeing which involves the anonymous paper being reviewed by two
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Lot of interestiung articles on design in the asian area
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Design Studies is the only journal to approach the understanding of design from comparisons across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural design and planning, computer artefacts and systems design
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Sustainability in housing environments - Issue 32, check out the 31 other issues, please
Archive for December, 2005
Mr. VanPatter has a tremendous site on design and leadership – every time I visit the “Journal”-section I find new interesting angles on what design thinking is all about.
The newest edition is an interview with Malcom Gladwell on “Blink”.
Mr. Gladwell’s own explanation on what “thin-slicing” is well put:
The term thin-slicing was coined by psychologists (led by people like Robert Rosenthal and Nalina Ambady) who were interested in the human tendency to draw conclusions about situations and people based on very "thin slices" of experience. So how long do I have to know you before I decide what kind of person I think you are? How much "information" do I have to gather before I make a prediction about whether you are, say, straight or gay, or friendly or unfriendly, or honest or dishonest? The gist of much of the thin-slicing work is that we don’t take very long to jump to those conclusions and, surprisingly, we’re pretty good at those snap judgments. Much better than we would ever have imagined
Think about it – how many times do you in fact ”thin-slice”? How many times haven’t you judged your customer, a new colleague or even your new boss - or what-ever – after just a split-second?
On the other hand – when do you know enough to really know enough? How much research do you really need to conduct before you could say – “I know him, I know why”.
So the very awaited Cox Review of Creativity in Business just came out and the buzz has started already… the likes of John Thakara have already started blogging parts of it like:
“The model of the UK becoming an all-service economy, the world’s leading repository of professional skills, is enormously appealing - and totally unrealistic”
Written by Sir George Cox who is the Chairman of the Design Council and published this December 2nd it is sure to be a very interesting read that i will go through and report back in the coming week. But if anyone has read it, please share!
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Good graph from Peer Insight, headed by wonderful Jeneanne Rae
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….also resources on UI an other interesting stuff…
Back in May we had a post on “Who are you?”. It was quite interesting to see where people came from. Since then our community has grown tremendously and I think it could be great fun - and valuable for everyone - to do the same exercise again…..:-)
So, Who are you?
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I want to connect with these people -they got it right Service Innovation is an area where a lot of companies has a lot of work to be done…..
Jess just ignited an interesting discussion – I think. It’s about positioning the different kinds of design/innovation/consulting/research-firms in the landscape. In ONE landscape….
The exercise is good and relevant but I think we need to discuss the “Arena”, “The Façade”, The Blink spot” & “the unknown”…..
The terms is from a metaphorical tool used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic device to encourage people to open up to another in self-disclosure. Johari’s window.
What I need is a discussion on what we measure, where we do in terms of geography. I also need a discussion on what we actually know about the different players - and of course what we don’t know.
As first said, the discussion is highly interesting and relevant – especially when it comes to defining this new field of business. Who is moving in which directions?
So, lets move the discussion even further – What is our Arena? The US, Europe, the rest of the world?
And what do we in fact know about players like Cheskin, IBM og Portigal Consulting – all 3 as good examples
And what about other players? I could mention PARK from Germany and The Netherlands or maybe ReD Associates in Denmark. I think we have to broaden up a little bit. The new players in this new field will come from unexpected niches – I think
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I’ve always been attracted by technology and as an entrepreneur in the era of web1.0 I’ve been struggeling with what should be the next big thing - web2.0 is not a BIG thing, it’s a movement, it’s THE way to innovate what we do and I think it’s an area wh