Book Review: Innovation Design
Disclosing shared value in business ecosystems – Or how to sustainably transform people, organisations and society How many times have you heard people and organisations talking about the superior value they or their business are supposed to create? And how often do you end up terrified by how trivial, unconvincing or insubstantial their claims a.k.a....
Giving your brain a hand – LEGO Serious Play™
Who doesn’t remember these bricks from childhood which have possibly influenced the lives of millions of kids. Having a conversation about them this morning, made me curious to find more about LEGO Serious Play™ and want to find out more about this facilitation approach. Doing so, I found the seriousplay.com website which provided plenty informations and resources about the facilitation approach. In essence, the...
make space – creatives spaces
Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, publish this interesting book on the evolution and the thinking behind the d.school space in Stanford late, last year. In their book they describe their thoughts behind space and provide inspirational space studies, tools, insights as well es design templates. According to the authors, the book provides the interested reader...
Engine – Service design toolbox
Searching the web for a service design toolbox that I found last night, I discovered this document by Engine, a UK based service design consultancy located in London. The document outlines their Service Design Process alongside some methods for service design. Beside the document, their website also features a list of methods and the process...
Method Cards – the facilitator’s crib
Method cards. Reading the words one might instantly think of the 51 cards released by IDEO almost 10 years ago in 2003. The cards where ment to serve as an inspiration for practicing designers as well as people who want to tab into creative methods. In 2010 the company also released a iPhone version for $4.99,...
K12 Design Thinking Projects and Challenges
This wiki, which is operated by the d.school (Stanford) features numerous design thinking challenges and projects which can not only been done with kids. Design thinking is, according to the k12 lab, a methodology for creative problem solving. The website is a great resource for getting some great material for facilitating design thinking sessions. It features...
The Open Book of Social Innovation
“This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across...
Prototyping Framework by Nesta and ThinkPublic
“Prototyping is a method which is gaining momentum in service development in the context of rising customer needs and expectations, and limited public resource. NESTA believes that prototyping could be part of a strong approach to developing new services that deliver better outcomes for less money.” PDF: PrototypingFramework.pdf
Human Centered Design Toolkit by IDEO
“For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? This project, funded by International Development Enterprise (IDE) as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sought to provide NGOs and social enterprises with the tools to...
Design Thinking for Educators
“This toolkit can help you create solutions for everyday challenges. It equips you with the process and methods of design. Businesses, social entrepreneurs and other innovators have used them for decades to create solutions for many different types of challenges. In this toolkit, these methods are adapted specifically for educators, because as an educator, you design every day. You design your classroom, you design...
bootcamp bootleg – d.school Stanford
“This compilation is intended as an active toolkit to support your design thinking practice. The guide is not just to read – go out in the world and try these tools yourself. In the following pages, we outline each mode of a humancentered design process, and then describe dozens of specific methods to do design work. These...
Design for Social Innovation: Community-Centred Knowledge Exchange
“Through a co-design process, involving academics, citizens, thirds sector groups, local councils and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) the current project evaluates barriers and opportunities for innovation in local communities, particularly in relation to building social capital and improving health and wellbeing. Designers contribute to this process through direct creative input, but also by...