I am writing this post because I am curious about the status of the early Service Design community, the pioneers of Service Design.

Tell me! How are you doing? What is the general feeling of what you’ve accomplished and where you are heading?

It has been 10 years or so since a new group, a new generation of professionals, started to develop and work within the field of what they called Service Design. These people, some just graduated, entered a field…

Here's a video impression of our "Think Like a Startup" sessions / game using the Startup Canvas and toolkit.

The session was held at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (dschool) Potsdam.

The aim of the session is to create a company that has a perfect conection between things like personal and company values, vision, culture, organizational model, partnerships, kpi's and incentives, mission, value proposition, touchpoints, customer needs, expectations, perceptions, values…

Computer owner: @lukemarson

Author: Andreea Hirica

The People Side of Highly Entropic Organizations…

Designing emotions. Designing for human complexity.

"What are the motivations of a designer?, Why designers always want more?, Why designers feel…

A very frequent question we have received since MiDi (Masters degree in Research for Design and Innovation at Elisava) started is: are all classes taught in Spanish? And at present the answer is yes. But starting march 2013 MiDi goes Bilingual.

One group will be completely taught in…

As part of the DesignThinkers Group US launch event I gave a talk about Continuous Innovation.

The talk was (and is) meant to trigger a conversation on innovation. There are many different opinions on this topic, and it has many dimensions I do not cover in this talk. But hopefully there is enough in it to agree or disagree with and I want to invite you to share your thoughts and opinions.

I…

Before taking on any project or problem, a Design Thinker has to analyze the situation to try to…

This is the presentation of my new BLOG: I hope you find necessary to talk about this issue as I do. 

"CEOs need to take action. The KSF of this Blog is to gaining the trust of CEOs and seniors managers in Designers and Design Thinking by creating confidence by simplifying their access to Design Thinking sources applied to multiple Innovative Business Models and through knowledge, facts and Best Practice related to Designers, Business Model…

Hi Dear Colleagues:

I just posted some Design thinking resources and papers, and service design sites.

Visit:

Design Thinking resources

Let me know if you have new resources, thanks!

CEOs are closer to designers than they think. In addition to design professionals, scientists, artists, architects, engineers ... Who are Design…

We all want superstars, supermodels - or an 'idol'! 

Millions of TV-viewers are following seemingly ordinary people in their battle against competition and aim to shine in the limelight - and with that to gain fame and fortune! It seems to be irrelevant what these people actually do, they just have to…

How great that we have the designer, who is able to view the issue from another angle, and by that can generate new and relevant insights, isn't it?

True, not only designers can do that - it just needs a design thinking, which is driven by curiosity and empathy and wants to improve the existing for…

It was a terrifying sight: a clutter of cables, tubes and pipes was hanging down from the ceiling and gave the scenery the impression of a torture chamber, just like you know from these old b&w horror movies - hello from Dr. Frankenstein!

Somehow it seemed that the grim atmosphere had no influence on the personnel working there: they were…

Seymourpowell’s Head of Sustainability Chris Sherwin, discusses the growing recognition, even excitement, in the role that brands can play in creating a sustainable…

“Innovate or die” becomes the order of the day. People in response seek ways to innovate.

Of late, many have embraced the practice of collaborative innovation, with its application of social media to sourcing crowds and ideas, and design thinking, with its structured approach to vetting hypotheses about new…

Lunes Monday Feb 6

Register and welcome pack

17:00 - 18:00 Sala de Actos Bienvenida Ignasi Perez Arnal Director Educacion Contínua Elisava y presentacion general de la DTWEEK 2012 a cargo de Jorge Rodriguez director MIDI.



18:00- 19:00 Mapa del Design Thinking  (Spanish) por Alessandro…