An Economist who practices Service Design

Economist by education, Sylvain Cottong has spent his career at the intersections of business, society, technology, science & culture, with the value of design for process, service & product development and more generally with leadership & innovation. He lives & works in Luxembourg and Berlin. Sylvain is my guest next week on the Business901 podcast Read More …

Teaching Design Thinking

  Dr. Charles Burnette created iDeSIGN, a Design Thinking course for children. He freely shares this information on his website idesignthinking.com. This is a transcription of the podcast, A Platform for Teaching Design Thinking.   In a recent blog post, A Teaching Resource for Design Thinking, I discussed the seven principles of Dr. Charles Burnette’s Read More …

A Platform for Teaching Design Thinking

Dr. Charles Burnette created iDeSIGN, a Design Thinking course for children. He freely shares this information on his website idesignthinking.com. The program began with a university course, Design With Kids, that placed design students in classrooms to help teachers conduct design projects related to their teaching goals. Our podcast discussed teaching Design Thinking to both Read More …

An Uncommon Way of Thinking about Service Design

Service Design Thinking: Anne Morriss, the best selling co-author of Uncommon Service says, We live in a world where lots of organizations want to deliver great service. We work with managers all the time, who are committed to it. Customers, as we know, are hungry for it, and yet, our service experiences are still overwhelmingly Read More …

A Short Course in Design Thinking

Ready, Set, Design is a favorite group activities, for adults and kids alike, at Cooper-Hewitt. It’s a highly adaptable design challenge that can jump-start collaborative and creative thinking in any group. They use it with kids’ groups at the Museum, for internal staff meetings, and even at industry conferences and summits. The activity is such Read More …

A Teaching Resource for Design Thinking

Dr. Charles Burnette created an outline for teaching children Design Thinking. He freely shares this information on his website idesignthinking.com. He feels Design thinking is important to for children to learn. I happen to agree with him and his seven principles constitute the premise on which IDeSiGN is based. I stands for intending To intend Read More …