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Permalink Reply by Meena Kadri on July 6, 2009 at 9:01

might also be a good idea for these contributors to be encouraged to include examples in their articles. IMHO design thinking can collapse into bland-strategic-speak-ad-nauseum unless its illustrated by real world applications.
(did i mention IMHO ;-)

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on July 6, 2009 at 9:08

IMHO you are quite right. We'll have to ask them how they translate abstract theory into reality by giving us some examples from their work.

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Permalink Reply by David on July 6, 2009 at 12:51

There seems to be some confusion! I think, Meena may have meant to use the term bland-academic-speak and not bland-strategic-speak. Strategy is about having a clear and simple plan (one based on an artful approach to the 'market', not just an analytical one) and moving that into practice. It's about the 'how to' not just the 'what to'. Without placing service design (or any design) within a strategic context no one will buy our services - because they won't see the value in it for themselves. Now, rambling on about the definitions of service design and the academic theory associated with it, now that is truly bland and of limited value.

Service design is really simple - sure there are some technical bits to it but in principle it's simple and we should try and keep it that way but in the context of strategy.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on July 6, 2009 at 12:57

Thank you for straightening that out for us David :-)
And who would you like to have as a Guest Author?

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Permalink Reply by Stuart G. Bailey on July 6, 2009 at 15:32

What about Clive Grinyer http://www.clivegrinyer.com/

Clive is currently working at Cisco designing customer experiences. A thoughtful designer, well versed in a range of design topics.

There is an interesting video by Clive on making technology work at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1014154808870557040&hl=en

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Permalink Reply by ayana baltrip balagas on July 9, 2009 at 18:46

Dave Gray of X-Plane comes to mind. I heard him speak in May at Wordpress' Wordcamp here in San Francisco.
http://www.davegrayinfo.com/
http://www.xplane.com/

He's a visual thinker.

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Permalink Reply by Syamant on July 13, 2009 at 20:25

I have heard a lot about Shiv Visvanathan. It would be interesting to have him as a Guest Author.

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Permalink Reply by Lloyd Pennington on July 13, 2009 at 23:57

Raymond Pirouz. You may find he is not quite in accord with design tinking as such, but dig a little deeper and I think you will find that the goals are simmilar if perhpas from differant perspectives

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on July 15, 2009 at 13:28

This is the latest WENOVSKI wish list of guest authors:

Hilary Cottam, MP Ranjan, Moxie Design Group
Brian Lam, aka Design Translator
Clive Grinyer http://www.clivegrinyer.com
Dave Gray http://www.davegrayinfo.com http://www.xplane.com
Shiv Visvanathan
Raymond Pirouz http://raymondpirouz.tumblr.com

Let us know If you have any other suggestions.
And please tell me if anyone here is connected to one or more persons on this list.

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Jalasutram on July 16, 2009 at 0:43

I have a list of people..who i personally follow..who talk about design, its future with environment,business, technology and culture..sort of a wishlist.

allan chochinov , editor of core77.com.a leading design writer, speaker and sustainability activist.
niti bhan of emerging futures lab, a designer and researcher of bottom of the pyramid economies,and consumer behavior, she has taught at IIT.
Carla diana, designer at smart design." how to design for a digital future"
robert fabricant , frog design, "Why interaction design is about designing around behavior, and not around technology"
chris downs of live|work, a service design agency, he could talk about service thinking
jocelyn wyatt, ideo , designing for social change.
bruce mau, on design

feedback? anyone?

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Permalink Reply by Srikanth Jalasutram on July 16, 2009 at 0:54

two more people in academia are leading design thinkers..straddling both the business and creative sides of design.

Richard Buchanan, previous head of CMU's design school, currently Professor of Information Systems at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University."design problems are wicked problems"
Joe ballay , founder of Maya design and currently a professor in the georgia tech industrial design department (whom i had the good fortune to hear from.."The design of business and the business of design" )
in the same breath..I personally second prof. MP ranjan's name on the exisiting list of design thinkers. I would love to hear from him.

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Permalink Reply by Syamant on July 17, 2009 at 16:30

M.P Ranjan http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/

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