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Published in Ambidextrous
My article for the Stanford Journal of Design – Ambidexterous – has finally been published! Ambi has been one of my favorite publications on design for years and it’s real honor to be part of it. If you’re interested in the real world of design (behind all the shiny objects and pretty pictures) I would highly recommend getting [...]
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MBA in Design Strategy – Sketchnotes from Residencies 2 to 5
Better late than never. Here are the sketch notes (attached pdfs) for the remaining residencies in semester two of my Design Strategy degree. Overall I feel like I got the most out of my leadership by design course but overall things really started to gell and everyone starting doing some amazing work this semester. Great [...]
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Design for social impact resources
Here are a collection of resources I have been collecting for design for emerging markets / design for social impact. I’ll be updating them from time to time and if anyone has any to add please post into the comments. Social Design Projects Hippo Roller World Bike Darfur Stoves ViewChange.org Ushahidi Meedan 1% Program Project run [...]
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A role for marketing and design
Marketing is the skill of discovering human needs and opportunities with the purpose of developing a business. I think marketing can be viewed as the ability for businesses to answer two key questions. What should we make? How are we doing with what we made? Obviously these are two very important core questions and putting [...]
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Design Change . Change Design – Conversation about social change
I’m helping organize a Designer’s Accord Town hall. Join us if you want to be part of the conversation about designing for social innovation. - – - Design Change . Change Design: The first student-led Designers Accord Town Hall meeting will take place on Friday, March 12th at California College of the Arts in San [...]
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Design MBA Magazine – Cohort 1
A nice selection of work from Cohort 1
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MBA Design Strategy – Residency 1
Semester 2 – Residency 1 SustainabilityStudio_Residency4.pdf MarketInsights_Residency1.pdf LeadershipByDesign_Residency001.pdf InnovationByDesign.pdf
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Tim Brown, CEO IDEO
Tim was nice enough to to come down to CCA during our last residency to talk about design thinking and IDEO.
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