Design and consciousness Admin on 16/07/2020 https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9wZXJlbGwubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M&ep=14&episode=MGIzYzRjOTEtN2I2NC00MDVhLTliNzUtNWNjMDIwZGI5ZWIy
Developer & Designer Collaboration (in the Real World) Admin on 15/07/2020 When a team has the agency to adapt their work style and working agreements, amazing things can happen.
When design breaks semantics Admin on 11/07/2020 https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/when-design-breaks-semantics
Theory, practice, praxis and framing Admin on 08/07/2020 Put simply: methodology is not, in itself, a theory. And I mean theory in quite a social science way: a framework for understanding peoples’ behaviours and actions. When I see service design in the line of work, it is probably best described as a spectrum of research methodologies or meta-methodologies (as in, it can eat up more focused methodologies and reconstitute them as being part of a whole: ethnography and wireframing can sit in the same box, and become “service design” by dint of the order of deployment and the use of the outputs).
Six essential mindsets for co-design Admin on 07/07/2020 Elevating lived experienceCuriosityHospitalityBeing in the greyLearning through doingValuing many perspectives
Differentiation of online text-based advertising and the effect on users’ click behavior Admin on 06/07/2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215003180
And yet it moves! Digital and self-organising teams with a little help from Galileo Admin on 06/07/2020 This summer, after a lovely 2 week holiday in Tuscany, I returned to Leeds and straight into a classroom full of government senior leaders discussing agile and user-centred design. Their challenges set me thinking once more about the relationship between technology and social relations in the world of work. One well-known story from the Italy of 400 years ago is helping me make sense of it all.
There’s No Secret Sauce… Except Sit Down and Do The Work Admin on 22/06/2020 Creative tech artist and designer Brendan Dawes on life in lockdown