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Inspiring Innovation: How People Stories Can Spark Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

His efforts empowered millions, especially women, by providing small loans to help them start businesses, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Shigeru Miyamoto : The Japanese video game designer who created iconic franchises like Mario , The Legend of Zelda , and Donkey Kong.

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Interview with Design Thinking Leader Steven Forth on What Makes Business Model Innovation So Challenging

IdeaScale

IdeaScale was introduced to Ibbaka because they are working with us on a very special project to help us innovate on our business model, but we were impressed at their experience, conversancy in design thinking and innovation and passion for subjects like growth models. IS: What’s an example of an open competency model? Do you agree? .

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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

Rob Law studied Product Design at Northumbria University. One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. In 2006 he presented on the TV programme Dragon’s Den in front of a panel of stern entrepreneur investors. ” His Trunki design went on to win over 100 awards.

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The Comforter Cold War of 2006

Innovation Excellence

(or How Assumptions Stifle Innovation) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the room were two single beds, each with a fluffy white comforter folded neatly on top. Yeah, this is not gonna work.” I had just entered my one-bedroom corporate apartment in Copenhagen, and while everything else was pleasantly light and spacious, there was no […]

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

Design 101
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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely.

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Can creativity training really improve your creativity?

Idea to Value

After all, we have previously seen that most corporate creativity training is not actually designed to deliver results. Research into the effectiveness of creativity training There have now been hundreds of peer-reviewed studies into creativity training. See his TEDx talk on the subject below: Can creativity training improve your creativity?

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