Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

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This is a more narrative book about "Design Thinking" with different examples of successful start-ups or companies. I wanted from the book what kind of recommendations or techniques of using in practice "Design Thinking".

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Brown names three mutually reinforcing essential "human elements” for any successful design project, they are insight, empathy, and observation. Demand options: don't settle for 1st good idea - let 100 flowers bloom, then x-pollinate for full divergent thinking. One of the winning concepts was "What's for dinner!? The last class of the day," submitted by Chris Waugh. For the last lesson of a school day, kids cook a healthy dinner to bring home to their families, in doing so they learn how to cook fresh nutritious food. Parents don't have to stress about dinner plans, and teachers have a hands-on teaching activity at the end of the school day, when many students' attention spans are shorter. Observation: watch what people don't do, listen to what they don't say (quality, not quantity). Mass marketing is dead! Design is something that many people take for granted, and people tend to cut corners and costs throughout. Saul Bass argues that, ‘Design is thinking made visual.’

So at the heart of creating buy-in is starting at the beginning. Consider how a product or service comes into being and how the customer will use it over time? Involve the customer in every chapter. Or better yet, get them to write and partake in the story of your innovation right from the start. In Conclusion In each of the preceding chapters I have tried to identify techniques that originated in the design community—field observations, prototyping, visual storytelling—that lie at the center of a human-centered design process. experience comes to life when personalized & customized - via smart technology, or providing something special or relevant at just the right time. Ex: Four Seasons, leveraging employees to identify opportunities and giving them tools to act upon them -- real experience culture is one of spontaneity senior leadership should have "gardening skill": tend, prune, harvest ideas. Top-down vs bottom-up (ex: WholeFoods using each store's small teams to experiment with new ways to serve employees better) -- NOT employee suggestion box!!

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Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation docThe book is not a design text book or does not contain design priciples, or theorems, in fact the book is just a huge collection of best practices used and developed at IDEO and how they were developed across the decades as the company rose from the small starup to a huge MNC, along with the author. This is in fact a account of the design journey of the author and the notes that he has gather on the way.

Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Think… Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Think…

For this reason, innovative solutions need to be designed with human beings at the center of the story. What could make someone's life easier or more fruitful? What truly meets the needs and desires of customers, stakeholders, or employees? These questions should be the starting point for any project. First, we now live in what Joseph Pine and James Gilmore christened an “experience economy” in which people shift from passive consumption to active participation. Second, the best experiences are not scripted at corporate headquarters but delivered on the spot by service providers. And third, implementation is everything. An experience must be as finely crafted and precision-engineered as any other product. In addition, it's a pleasure to read; it's articulate, literate, and well-argued, on the basis of "real world application" evidence. If you are a designer, you would have heard most of the content of the book already and you would have experienced it in your work too! Mark of designer is willing embrace of constraints! Design thinker brings these into harmonious balance:Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation txt The first half of the book has the meat the next half is related about politics of design in the organization or how to gather popular support for design thinking and rally your organization around it, which is quite tiring to read. The second half of the book also talks about sustainable design and design activism, the last chapter of the book is absolutely useless as it recalls all the previous chapters. Design is too important to be left to specialized designers: management needs to think like designers, designers need to think strategically. How to look at every problem as a design problem? starts with humans: more than ergonomics - have to understand culture & context. Ex: low-cost hearing aids for India on PDA, fitted by non-technicians (start with culture & people vs tech). Cross subsidizing those who can pay for those who can't.