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Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Ezio Manzini
Category: Art and Design | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals a ...Show more
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design by Kees Dorst
Category: BUSINESS | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser.
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. T ...Show more
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design by Kees Dorst (University of Technology, Sydney)
Category: Design | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
How organizations can use practices developed by expert designers to solve today's open, complex, dynamic, and networked problems. When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. To ...Show more
How Artifacts Afford - The Power and Politics of Everyday Things by Jenny L. Davis
Category: Politics | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser.
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, whic ...Show more
Overcrowded: Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas by Roberto Verganti
Category: Business | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory
The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders -- users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto ...Show more
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