Thinking Design by Lars Rosengren » design thinking

What is the real meaning of risk?

larsrose — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:43:46 +0000

The other day, Hartmut Esslinger’s book “A fine line” finally dropped in my mailbox. Its green cover with subtle Wega inspired dots instantly makes you want to break open the book and eagerly rush through the pages. I will not review his book yet, as I still have a few chapters to finish, except to say, it is a refreshingly personal and frank book, with many thoughtful ideas.

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IDEO Human centred design toolkit

larsrose — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:20:41 +0000

IDEO’s open source human centered design toolkit is a good source of inspiration. It will be a help for NGOs and social entrepreneurs to design and implement innovative, customer-centric solutions to specific design challenges for global communities in need via … Continue reading →

Twitter Venn diagram

larsrose — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:56:01 +0000

Found an interesting visualisation tool at neoformix today. It allows you to visualise the relationship between different twitter search terms, in the form of a Venn diagram.

I miss my pencil – Book by IDEO

larsrose — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:31:47 +0000

When Tim Brown was the the V&A last month, he mentioned the book “I miss by pencil” by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson of IDEO, which caught my attention. Although, I have just ordered the book and not yet had … Continue reading →

A wider perspective on designers' role

larsrose — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:39:52 +0000

In the may+june 2009 issue of interactions Elaine Ann writes an interesting article on the wider role of designers, illustrating it with a large scale case study labelled What’s Design Got to Do with the World Financial Crisis? I don’t … Continue reading →

What is design thinking?

larsrose — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:27:42 +0000

Design thinking may still be a somewhat fuzzy term in business, but the design community has grown increasingly fond of Dan Saffer – o danny boy Summarises design thinking into- Focus on customers/users- Finding alternatives (multiple solutions)- Ideation and prototyping- … Continue reading →

Irrational economics

larsrose — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:45:06 +0000

Its remarkable how much of what we were taught in university that feels obsolete today. Amongst other things, there was the theory of rational economics. Although, I only took a minor in economics and never went deeper into the topic, … Continue reading →