faster horse
Many creatives believe that, due to AI, design tasks are shifting from manual work to cognitive work. And this shift is in a specific direction: from less reflective to more predictive.
more…articles with #design management
Clair and Bill Podast
Wow, even the mainstream is picking up on the effect of strategic design! Check out this episode.
Oh, not that you wonder and cannot find the two and their show. The entire podast was generated by AI, based on a paper I wrote on design capability in companies.
on purpose
The designer and podcaster Sebastian Gier asked me some intriguing questions on design, business, purpose and meaning. Luckily he recorded our conversation! I think it’s one of the best podcasts so far and it reveals some insight into how design and business can come together in a meaningful way.
my story, so far…
A long, deep interview that Arne van Oosterom recorded with we, about being in bubbles, being between sides and going into industrial design, to pick up a career at Philips. And a lot about Philips!
more…balance
Balance is a state that people perceive as an ideal of particular attractiveness. If something is evenly distributed and in balance, we attach a high value to it. Equilibrium of forces, of markets, of forms and structures, of opinions or even of values in themselves, is something “beautiful”. It is not without reason that Justicia carries a scale to ensure that the facts can be weighed in balance and therefore be just.
more…volcano
As there was something important to discuss, my colleague took me „to catch some fresh air“: for me, it was just fresh air; for him, the same, but compounded by the heavy fumes of a filterless Gauloises.
Soon after we had reached the terrace, the smoke started to penetrate in small cloudlets from his nose and mouth: the clear predictor of an imminent eruption! more…
bridge
Amongst mankind’s great achievements, you will find great inventions like the wheel, the boat, or the water closet. Not hard to imagine where civilization would be without these… Most of these inventions are by now taken for granted: we don’t even bother to imagine how the world would be without them.
control
What a surprise! Just as he was ready to pay, the customer took a final glance at the bill and noticed the prices had changed: not 21 euros for the main dish, but 32,50; not 9,50 for the dessert, but 15,80… When he asked why, he got a straight answer – “The kitchen crew needed more time than planned, and that’s why the costs have increased!“
system failure
Our world is a system that contains many sub-systems: the oceans, the forests, the climate – all are complex, fragile, and well-calibrated organisms with a system character. If one of the parts is not running well, the others will suffer as well: one weak spot will influence the overall performance. Systems can repair themselves, once they are not running well – unless the weak spot is getting larger than the self-curing ability of the parts involved. Then the whole system can collapse: system failures are the most wicked problems around us.
ROI
It was a tough time for me, being a designer employed at a company whose reasoning was based on financial indicators, such as turnover, gross margin, return on investment, and so on. Eventually, you, as a designer, also have to define your reasoning according to such parameters. Unavoidably, the question of ‘return on investment’ (ROI) will pop up, like “What do I get back for every Euro I spend on, what’s actually the ROI of design?” Tell me!