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Concepts for a worn medical device for children
design research / design thinking

User-Centered Design: Phase 3 Ideate

For this installment in our series looking at the User-Centered Design (UCD) process, we get to the part that most people think of when they think about designing products. This …

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design thinking

Conventional Thinking Parallels Conventional Brainstorming

When Daedalus was sponsoring the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s event The Creative Technology Network’s Innovator Series Presents Roger Martin: Gaining Competitive Advantage with Design Thinking (5/22/2012), I decided to read Martin’s The Opposable …

Edison light bulbs in a row.
design thinking

Why Ordinary Brainstorming Doesn’t Work

Recently there have been several prominent articles published that disparage brainstorming, making the claim that brainstorming is a failed corporate experiment … that it doesn’t work. Most recently and perhaps …

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design research / product development

The Value of a Bad Idea

Imagine that a car manufacturer has created a car that will drive itself during most routine driving situations; the driver only needs to control the car during unusual circumstances. They …

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