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Design Thinking Case Studies

InnovationTraining.org

Find examples of how design thinking is used to solve problems, prototype, and innovate. As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. Netflix’s Innovative Updates.

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Fly, Crash, Adapt

Destination Innovation

Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. Early efforts to build human-powered aircraft had featured wooden designs, which proved too heavy. They came up with an unorthodox design called the Gossamer Condor. Paul MacCready. Some used catapults to launch the craft.

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. They suggest organizations need to decide on where to hold complexity within any design and build the right capabilities where they matter.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

model, a user-friendly take on using existing frameworks for designing emotional experiences. Designing relationships. Design goals, types of reactions & triune brain. At this point, you may be wondering how all of this relates to designing emotional experiences that encourage relationships. Design Goals.

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Designing Screens Using Cores and Paths

Boxes and Arrows

Typically in web design, the opposite approach is the rule: designers begin with the homepage. The goal—or the primary content people are looking for or tasks they are trying to get done—turns out to be the last thing that gets attention in the design process. ” “Start with the goal.” See Figure 4).

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Overcoming the Not-Invented-Here (NIH) Mindset

Innovation Excellence

When Chris Messina, a former Google designer, conceived of a simple way to filter content and create channels on Twitter in 2007, he blogged about his idea: “Every time someone uses a channel tag to mark a status, not only do we know something specific about that status, but others can eavesdrop on the context.

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