What we're thinking about...
Stones
By Cyndi Dawes.
Unless you are a landscape gardener, an excavator or a child who loves collecting and throwing rocks and stones, it’s unlikely that you consider stone as an element much in your daily life or work. As designers and problem...
Why human-centred design is like a 4 foot 7 Japanese woman
It was Sunday night and time for some Netflix. There was a new show in our feed called ‘Tidying Up with Marie Kondo’. Ooh this looks interesting. We selected it.
There on the screen was a living doll, dressed in white -...
The Importance of Being Centred when Facilitating
Hi I’m Ben and am one of the people delivering our new course, Human-Centred Facilitation this November. Today I want to focus on the ‘centred’ part of human-centred facilitation. More specifically, why...
Presence in the Process: The Hidden Key of Design
Perhaps it's not terribly sexy, but one of the things that makes a really great designer is decision-making. A series of good decisions throughout the design process make the difference between something half-baked, and something game-changing.
...
The Dance of Design
In the last year, I’ve learnt to dance. I have never danced before, so everything is new to me. I wasn’t expecting it, but there are many parallels between dance and design. I’ve learnt a lot about mindset, transformation,...