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While design thinking is an ideology based on designers’ workflows for mapping out stages of design, its purpose is to provide all professionals with a standardized innovation process to develop creative solutions to problems—design-related or not. https://lnkd.in/d-q5PRNM

🎨 Unlock innovation with design thinking! Explore the principles and methodologies that drive creative problem-solving and foster innovation. #DesignThinking #InnovationProcess https://hubs.la/Q02wK5Qp0

Are you pioneering design efforts on your own within your organization? This scenario is quite common in early-stage startups where it's crucial to ensure that design plays a pivotal role. Join us for our course, Service Blueprint Essentials, on Monday, June 19th, 2024, from 09:30 - 11:00 (Dublin, London time), where we'll tackle effective strategies to enhance your influence and assert the importance of design. 🧑💻 Embed Service Design Principles within Your Team When: Monday, June 19, 2024, @ 09:30 AM (Dublin, London time) Where: This session, led by Gerry Scullion, who will empower you to foster a strong service design mindset in environments that may typically focus elsewhere. You'll learn how to identify and collaborate with allies within non-design teams, and push service design thinking to the forefront of business processes. Have questions? Great! We’ll have a Q&A segment to dive deep into your queries. Sign up here in the link below. Why should you attend? Role of a Solo Designer: Grasp how to be the solo force driving design in a tech-heavy team. Our facilitator understands these challenges and will share insights on how to effectively advocate for your role and the broader design perspective. Cultivate a Design-Forward Environment: Service design isn’t just a designer’s job—it requires collective effort. Learn how to engage with engineers, product managers, and other team members to champion a holistic approach to service design. Learn from the Best: Gain from our expert’s years of experience with practical, impactful strategies that you can implement right away to elevate your presence and impact as a design leader within your team. Join us to reshape your approach to service design and champion a culture that values and integrates it seamlessly into business practices. This workshop is ideal for anyone eager to lead and promote service design in their workplace, improving team integration, culture, and overall effectiveness! Note: If you're unable to attend the live session, ticket holders will receive exclusive access to the recorded session. https://lnkd.in/epMXnaAU

Discover design thinking as a framework for delivering innovation with repeatable success. Our expert, Michael Pearo, shares six core steps of design thinking and why businesses should adopt it. https://buff.ly/3UHQQtq #DesignThinking #Innovation #CreativeSolutions

Today’s popular design methodologies are not suitable for today’s (and tomorrow’s) biggest problems. If we look at the scale of challenges designers aspire to contribute to addressing today, we can clearly see that the design tools we’ve been taught are under-equipped. While the core of the HCD process; the iterative and experimental prototyping loop, is more relevant than ever in today’s complex world, the loop itself needs to be supported by approaches that can leverage it at larger scales. In Rethinking Design Thinking, GK VanPatter sets out that we’re trying (and failing) to solve big, complex, wicked problems, with methodologies (like Human Centred Design / Design Thinking). These methods are useful for small to medium sized problems where a new product / service is the answer. But they are unsuitable where the answer is at the scale of the fundamental reorganisation of systems at an industry/national/global level. And while these general design methodologies and frameworks have been enjoying an increasing mainstream use (and success) in organisations over the last couple of decades, we now need to advocate for better methodological integration of: 📏 Scale – as Rethinking Design Thinking recommends, ⏰ Time – the need to integrate Futures Thinking to look and imagine further ahead, and 🌀 Complexity – using tools that help us understand, and make sense of the system we’re working in, what’s happening, and what to do next. What else do you think Design needs to succeed at to be more effective at tackling the large systemic challenges we face? (Spoiler alert: that will be the topic of our final post tomorrow). #design #innovation --------------- This week, Steph Clarke and I are posting some more of the conversations we’ve been having on the current state of design and the future, and the overlay with innovation and organisational culture. This is post 2 of 3. Follow along by connecting with us, or by following hashtag #JanAndStephDesignWhatsNext

🎨 Unlock innovation with design thinking! Explore the principles and methodologies that drive creative problem-solving and foster innovation. #DesignThinking #InnovationProcess https://hubs.ly/Q02WrLGF0

Have you ever considered implementing Design Thinking into your company's culture? 💡 It might seem difficult at first, but is it? EDU Effective blog covers basic steps when using design thinking within your business. Read about it at ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e8pBUZ8M ____ #EDUEffective #Blog #DesignThinking #WorkCulture

Have you ever considered implementing Design Thinking into your company's culture? 💡 It might seem difficult at first, but is it? EDU Effective blog covers basic steps when using design thinking within your business. Read about it at ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e8pBUZ8M ____ #EDUEffective #Blog #DesignThinking #WorkCulture

What is design leadership, and should we worry about it in Market research? In the rapidly evolving business landscape, the significance of design transcends industries, impacting everything from product development to service delivery. This broad relevance of design brings into focus a critical aspect often overlooked in non-product-based industries: design leadership. While traditionally associated with product aesthetics and functionality, design leadership holds profound implications for businesses focused on delivering services and insights. In market research, design leadership is not about the physical appearance of products but about structuring information, presenting insights, and interacting with clients. A well-designed report, for example, goes beyond aesthetic appeal; it makes complex data accessible, actionable, and, most importantly, impactful for decision-making processes. The clarity, usability, and engagement level of these deliverables can dramatically enhance the value received by clients, both in B2B and B2C scenarios. Design thinking principles also encourage innovation in research methodologies themselves. By empathizing with end-users — the clients and their customers — they can devise more effective ways to gather, analyze, and present data. This empathetic approach ensures that the insights provided are not just data points but actionable information that can drive business strategies. Digital platforms and tools are also part of this story. A well-designed online dashboard can change the game for clients, making data interaction not just informative but also a pleasure. It's all about creating touch-points that leave clients satisfied and engaged. In essence, design leadership is about enhancing the entire ecosystem of services. It’s about ensuring that every point of interaction, be it a report, a digital platform, or a research methodology, is thoughtfully designed to meet and exceed client expectations. Food for Thought: - How can market research companies use design thinking to develop new ideas and improve their reports? - How can using design ideas improve the customer experience in industries that usually don’t focus on design? - Can adding design thinking to market research services help companies stay ahead by better understanding and predicting market trends? - How could focusing on design change how much clients value the insights they get from market research companies? #designleadership #mrx #crossfunctionalteams #creativejourney #collaborativegenius #techincreativity https://lnkd.in/gSsVRC3J

When we talk about Human Centred Design, one of the first things that comes to mind is the Desirability, Viability, Feasibility Venn Diagram. However, these are sometimes presented as a shorthand for People, Business, and Technology. This hinders our perception of the context we're designing for, how we go through a project and decision making as a result. Such a shorthand wrongfully represents reality, mixing decision factors (Feasibility, Viability, Desirability) with stakeholders (Businesses, People, Technology). This frames our perception of the world and context we design for, impoverishing Design as a practice and the value it can enable. When we’re mixing stakeholders with decision factors, we’re oversimplifying the context we’re designing for, insinuating people are solely driven by desires, businesses stakeholders by money, and solution by feasibility. The reality is more nuanced: → People can not use a product or a service because it’s not feasible for them, for instance it isn’t accessible. → Similarly, a business stakeholder might turn down a viable and feasible solution simply based on the fact that they do not like the solution, doesn’t fit with their organisation image, or are set on a specific technology already. → A technically feasible solution might not be desirable due to its impact on the planet or the people. Instead, we should be breaking down decision factors (viability, feasibility, desirability) per stakeholders. This gives us a framework to map different questions we should be asking ourselves, ensuring we get a clearer picture of the context we’re designing, and therefore are more inclined to design a holistic solution. It also helps us to better facilitate decisions, understanding where stakeholders might be coming from when they refuse a solution that seems to be delivering against their objectives. Making sure we understand the context we're designing for is essential if we want to enable change. We can therefore address stakeholder’s underlying expectations and concerns blocking a solution that otherwise ticks all the boxes.