Design Thinking

A reflection on safeguarding design ethics in the age of growth at all cost Confession 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️ ! I am not an expert on Design Ethics. Whatever I wrote here is what inspired me and I am still trying to follow up on a lot of these principles in my everyday life and work. …

Part 2: Impact, Parallels and Abstractions — Before computer science, I spent a decade as an artist. I’ve guided new product development as a musician, designer, developed architecture, built prototypes, and created start-ups. To me, art is the essence of what it means to create with impact and through this dialogue I’ll make the assertion that computer…

By Sean Mulholland and Irene Ti Great designers do more than push pixels. They’re crucial to the product life cycle for hashing out design strategy, collaborating with researchers, and delivering design specs to engineering teams. …

Neuroscientist Rex Jung defines creativity as “the process of making something both novel and useful.” Without usefulness, nothing matters. Without novelty, nobody cares. So how do we go about finding creative ideas? Great ideas often feel like magic. That’s because creative thoughts originate in your unconscious brain then literally burst…

Promoting local and seasonal food consumption, by supporting users to learn, compare, plan and measure the impacts of their food choices. — This was my first project at the Ironhack UX/UI Bootcamp. The project consisted of approaching sustainable food as a wicked problem. I worked together with Eve Seifert and Otti Yerbury. Background In the last few decades, people have become more aware of the importance of good nutrition. Yet, organic food is…

Hi, I am Su, I am a UI/UX designer, and this week I spent my time watching the 7 Ted Talks every designer should watch from the site invisionapp and wanted to share my experience in a nutshell. 1-Small things matter… more than you think When you are designing for people, especially for all kinds of people…

The first challenge of my Ironhack journey. TLDR; Education, information with context and positive reinforcement is the answer. See low-fi prototype. The brief How might we help people access local seasonal produce, while also fostering fair and honest relationships between producers and customers? Our first step as a group was to interrogate…

In this Medium post, you will read/hear the solutions for a wicked problem solved by following the design thinking process. The solution will be finalized as the low-fi prototype of an app. KICK-OFF: As soon as the introduction and warm-up session of the Bootcamp has been completed and after the classes about “Intro to design thinking” and “UX research and UCD”, we addressed wicked problems as a design challenge. …

It is worth repeating to ourselves every few minutes that we are at a Strategic Inflection Point (SIP) on the Planet and the course we take in each of our lives not only determines whether our own life is going to turn out for the better but also that of…