Is the Word Innovation Over Used

In the 1970s, Aaron Marcus programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout application for the Picturephone ™ at AT&T Bell Labs. He became the first designer to program virtual reality art-spaces while a faculty member at Princeton University, and directed an international team of visual communicators as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Read More …

An Interaction Design Conversation

Dave Malouf, @daveixd, is currently the Manager of Product Design at Rackspace, the open hosting company (RAX). They are responsible for all the administrative control panels for our Infrastructure as a Service, Management as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Networks as a Service system. Dave has been working primarily in Internet front-end design Read More …

More About a Mindset: Service Design

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. This was an enlightening podcast that I go back and review often.  Related Podcast and Transcription: Service Design Is More About Read More …

Assumptions that Guide Decision Making

Anne Morriss is the best-selling co-author of Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business and in a past podcast, I asked her, “ If you had to choose just one take away from your book, what would it be?” This led to the following excerpt. Related Podcast and Read More …

Role Playing in Learning Service Design

A while back, I interviewed Vincenzo Di Maria a service designer working across Europe and his company is Common Ground. His work focuses on socially responsive design and innovation ranging from products to services and experiences. His approach to design is holistic, playful and people-centered. Related Podcast and Transcription: A Teacher of Service Design Joe: Read More …

Connection of Service Design & Theater

At Work•Play•Experience Adam St. John (aka Adam Lawrence) turns good services into memorable service experiences that start people talking. I ask Adam in a past Podcast, “Theater seems to be the convenient analogy. Is there a deeper relationship between that, between Service Design and theater? Related Podcast and Transcription: Show Business in Service Design Adam Read More …