Tag Archives: Ideas

Random stuff I found on Sticky Notes

I recently went through a bunch of notes I found on my computer. All of them look to be the beginnings of blog posts, but I thought it would might be fun to throw them all together in one blog post and expand up on them later. (And then I can delete them from my [...]
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Communication in the process of co-design

This post will most likely feel like like a train coming off the rails. I will clean it up at some point. Maybe. Anyway… Most designs are the result of a process of co-design, involving several stakeholders and people directly involved in the creation of something. In this process, there is a constant state of [...]
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Design Thinkers, Design Keepers, and Design Baggage

I was going to write a post today about the ways in which design is being discussed, viewed, and used by individuals and organizations. My colleague, Matty Snyder, and I have spent a lot of time discussing this and alas, he beat me to it and wrote it better than I could have. Check it [...]
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Brainstorming for Concepts

Brainstorming is an integral part of the design process, but sometimes it can be difficult to come up with decent or diverse design concepts. During my first semester of study in the Human-Computer Interaction Design Master’s program at Indiana University, I learned several brainstorming tips to add to my bag of tricks. Wolf these down [...]
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