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I recently traveled from Denmark to Norway. Here are three great examples of desire paths, service design and branding that I saw while doing the traveling part of the trip. DSB is the biggest Danish railway provider. They have a very easy to use phone app that let’s you purchase tickets, use your phone as …
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This is about, one of my favorite things: touchpoints. Every interaction someone has with your product/service is a touchpoint. It is an opportunity to communicate value, build loyalty and grow brand. Recently I moved to Denmark for a few months. Being my first move to a new country, not everything goes smoothly. I did not …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEm-wjPkegE In this great TED talk, Rodney Mullen discusses innovation in skateboarding and mentions the similarities between skateboarding and open source. Worth watching.
I recently completed an Improv Foundation 1 course at BATS by Rebecca Stockley. It was a fantastic experience I’d recommend for anyone. I want to take a moment and share some of the most important things that improv taught me. These are applicable to anything and everything we do in life. Make your partner look …
Last week, during a student affairs meeting at San Francisco State University, the committee members were asked for input on the general education redesign. I championed the idea that the design students should be engaged in helping design a better experience for students – it’s a winning combo of student and design perspectives. The committee …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaklwrpRfo Great a talk and book about the importance of design leaders.
When I was in design school I was quick to jump to solutions for my design challenges. I followed general design process guidelines but I always got a little antsy in the define the problem and research stages. (I like to build and ship.) As I’ve been able to go through design thinking processes in …
There are two kinds of process: process that encourages creativity and process that slows solutions. In all organizations, it is important to ask whether your processes encourages or slows. The easiest way to think about this is to classify a process as either a way of doing things (encourage) or the way of doing things (slow). …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrONxcyQo4E A fascinating organizational structure. There are no managers – everybody is one. Definitely worth watching.
Here is a incredibly important management puzzle: how do you effectively scale? I define effective scaling as growth where what made the organization successful is not lost; growth in and of itself is not effective. The implications here are huge. Success means a growing, thriving business; failure can mean any number of things ranging from …
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