I’ve started thinking more about creating new products, experiences, companies, etc. IDEO, Frog and Cheskin have long captured my imagination. Fulton Suri describes an empathetic economy as a future possibility “about a huge opportunity for innovation in which a similar level of empathy and imagination might be applied to the many different kinds of people who populate the business ecology of a particular industry, not just customers/end-users/consumers”. This is incredibly similar to the thinking the Jevon is doing about the emerging consultant counter culture and how new organizations work. Understanding people, their environment, the social situation, their needs, their desires are key.
- Thoughtless Acts is Jane Fulton Suri’s book about “the intuitive ways we adapt, exploit and react to things in our environment”. It shows how observation can inspire and inform design.
- Flickr images tagged thoughtlessacts
- Interview with Jane Fulton Suri
- Insights from Thoughtless Acts
- A review of The Ten Faces of Innovation
- The New Creative Mind is an interesting T-shaped approach to creativity
- Thinking, Linking, Doing is another view on T-shaped on “realizing ideas”
- More Brain, Less Storm is another approach to research and brainstorming
- UK foresight studies identify emerging trends over the next 50 years
- Defining Design Thinking is a great summary of traditional business and design thinking involving Tim Brown, Roger Martin, Richard Florida, Luke Wroblewski and others
- Digital ethnography: The next wave in understanding the consumer experience article by Davis Masten and Tim Plowman of Cheskin Research
- Don’t make the Demo look Done by Kathy Sierra
- Marketing Your Design Firm: How to brand yourselves as well as you brand your clients
- Toward a Cultural Innovation has one of my favourite quotes, “The problem with American innovation is that it’s all prêt-à -porter and no couture. All business and problem-solving, no culture-making.”
- Enlightened Innovation