TED Talks: What Happens When You Play? Creativity, Intuition, and Ideation Read Time: 4 minutes All work and no play...kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. – Joline Godfrey The future of...
Why Are Abstractions Important in Product Design? Can They Inspire Your Thinking? Read Time: 3 Minutes Why Are Abstractions Important in Product Design? Can They Inspire Your Thinking? Simplicity is not the absence of clutter; that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is...
To Design Unique Concepts….Change your mindset! Read Time: 3 minutes Although analytical thinking is powerful, like scripted processing, it proceeds in a linear fashion…and often fails to meet the challenges of novelty and change.” Leonard Mlodinow Did you run out of...
Creativity and the Collective Mind Read Time: 3 Minutes Creative teams are dynamic. Diversity of talents is important, but it is not enough. Different ways of thinking can be an obstacle to creativity. Creative teams find ways of using their differences as strengths, not weaknesses.”...
Ideation and the Designer's Mindset – TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes Ideation and the Designer’s Mindset People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, in the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually...
Sustainable Product Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes Sustainable Product Design “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, designed or...
Simplicity in Design - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antonine de Saint-Exupery How do we make things as simple, inexpensive, functional, and...
Creativity - TEDTalks with Practitioner Insights Read Time: 2 Minutes The Power of Imagination Designing products and services involves deeply understanding consumers’ beliefs, attitudes, and inner selves as product managers; the journey to a fine and competitive product is a function...
Function Analysis: Foundation to Concept Development Read Time: 5 minutes The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. In the end, it will be these details that give the product life. Charles Eames Consumers...
Read Time: 2 Minutes When asked “How would you know a good decision if you saw one”, audience members at PDMA’s Inspire Innovation conference September 18, 2023 in New Orleans said things like “Alignment with goal and vision” and “Aligned with expectations” and “True alignment (not just...