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In-house vs consultant service designers, is there a difference?

Started by Stefan Holmlid. Last reply by Stefan Holmlid yesterday. 3 Replies

We are looking for in-house service designers!For several years we have been working with service design consultancies, to understand this thing called design for service. We are now at a stage where we feel we should find in-house designers that…Continue

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Starting work at DT

Started by Kris. Last reply by Kris 23 hours ago. 4 Replies

Hi there,Nice to meet you guys.I consider starting work in something related to Design Thinking.For the time being I'm 20 and I live in Poland.I'd like to go abroad, try something new and meet great people.But there is as always question HOW?I don't…Continue

Evaluating Design's ROI

Started by Maddy. Last reply by Lyden Foust Apr 11. 63 Replies

I'm working towards my Master thesis with Design ROI as the focus. So , How can the value of design be proved by demonstrating the ROI?I know design is used to differentiate and entice users and it would be invariably hard to pin down it's value but…Continue

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Starting up a Start-up. How to start a service design business?

Started by ricardojdc. Last reply by Lyden Foust Apr 7. 28 Replies

This discussion follows from my interest in the fields of design thinking / service design and the perception that my country lacks such services. My immediate reaction was: "why not starting such a business?"However, some worries (in no particular…Continue

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"Arne, you mean going for instance to the London for a few days to see this comapnies? Yeap, sounds quite good. :) Kris"
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Language Is Killing Our Ability To Innovate

Posted by Lyden Foust on May 22, 2013 at 20:32 0 Comments

There are many inventions whose origins we simply cannot trace. One glaringly obvious, yet equally elusive innovation is that of the spoken word. Before we had language, we made sense of the world through pictures, sounds, and smells. Humans estimated time by looking at the position of the sun, and gained a sense of direction by looking at landmarks. We can get a pretty good glimpse at what was going on in people’s lives by looking at pictures etched into cave walls.


The use of images to make sense of the world is perhaps our most primitive form of intelligence.

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Depending on the people involved, their motivations, and the phase of the moon, you may or may not find fertile ground for the practice of collaborative innovation.

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