Design Thinking talk
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A talk I gave to the design and marketing team of a very large corporate about why it's hard to practice Design Thinking in a corporation. Borrows heavily from Clay Shirky. The slides may not make too much sense without me doing the talk.
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- 1. Design Thinking in marketing By Glyn Britton
- 2. Why I’m qualified to talk about this? BSc Industrial Design Brunel University British Airways Design Management Interbrand Brand consultant
- 3. Glyn Britton Managing Partner at Albion
- 4. About Albion A ‘new model’ digitally-led integrated advertising agency.
- 5. What that actually means An expansive view of what marketing can be. Not much we make looks like advertising. We design content, and we design media.
- 9. What do they have in common? Design Thinking.
- 10. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Design Thinking is a process for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result.[1] It is the essential ability to combine empathy, creativity and rationality to meet user needs and drive business success. Unlike analytical thinking, design thinking is a creative process based around the "building up" of ideas. There are no judgments early on in design thinking. This eliminates the fear of failure and encourages maximum input and participation in the ideation and prototype phases. Outside the box thinking is encouraged in these earlier processes since this can often lead to creative solutions. Design thinking.
- 11. In short Design isn’t restricted to graphics and ‘style’.
- 13. Some assumptions We want to sell more of our stuff. We want to charge more for our stuff. In the long term. We want to make the world a better place. We can do all of these by making the purchase decision more meaningful.
- 14. Design Thinking is... A process. A way of thinking about the world.
- 17. Whether we know it or not, we’re all going through a version of this process.
- 18. So what’s the difference? Magical Ordinary
- 19. So what’s the difference? Magical Ordinary
- 20. So what’s the difference? Magical Ordinary
- 21. They’re a pleasure to ‘use’.
- 22. Design Thinking is... A process. A way of thinking about the world.
- 23. Charles & Ray Eames Do the best, for the most, with the least.” “
- 24. Ten things Google know to be true: 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. 2. It's best to do one thing really, really well. 3. Fast is better than slow. 4. Democracy on the web works. 5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer. 6. You can make money without doing evil. 7. There's always more information out there. 8. The need for information crosses all borders. 9. You can be serious without a suit. 10.Great just isn't good enough.
- 25. Narrow • Surface • Narrow context • Evolution • Managing risk
- 26. Broad • Experience • Cultural context • Doing the right thing • Changing the game
- 27. Noticing
- 29. Doing
- 30. Evolving
- 31. Prototyping.
- 32. Why we don’t practice Design Thinking?
- 33. Because corporations are designed to not allow it.
- 34. It's funny to think of (the org chart) as a specific invention, but its existence and form owe quite a lot to the environment in which it was first widely used - railroad management in the 1800s.” “
- 35. David McCallum’s Superintendent's Report, 1855 1. A proper division of responsibilities. 2. Sufficient power conferred to enable the same to be fully carried out, that such responsibilities may be real in their character. 3. The means of knowing whether such responsibilities are faithfully executed. 4. Great promptness in the report of all derelictions of duty, that evils may be at once corrected. 5. Such information is to be obtained through a system of daily reports and checks that will not embarrass principal officers, nor lessen their influence with their subordinates. 6. The adoption of a system, as a whole, which will not only enable the general superintendent to detect errors. Silos Blame culture Poor communication Fear of failure
- 36. Following non- digital guidelines means logo looks terrible Boss insisted on using these abstract images from DM Meaningless reference to then-current tactical TV campaign Image is concession to design agency’s terrible original design Reflecting internal departments to customers The only things anybody ever clicked on My only victory for usability
- 37. Conventional wisdom People will never accept sitting backwards on an aeroplane.” “
- 39. So how did they do that? By breaking the hierarchical model.
- 40. Practicing Design Thinking requires
- 41. Practicing Design Thinking requires Holistic Not just ‘design’, but technology, engineering, systems, distribution, people... Design Thinking should affect and involve all of these and more.
- 42. Practicing Design Thinking requires Joined up Not just going through the motions of collaboration (more meetings). But open and generous.
- 43. Practicing Design Thinking requires Business focused “At any given time, a team using design thinking should be able to give a sense of how strong a business they are creating” Diego Rodriguez, IDEO
- 45. The future? The new (management) model will have to be more like the marketplace, and less like corporations of the past. It will need to be flexible, agile, able to quickly adjust to market developments, and ruthless in reallocating resources to new opportunities.” http://bit.ly/cbS1h3 “
- 46. In conclusion
- 47. From Update the packaging for Oreos.
- 48. To Constantly evolve the experience of Oreo-ing to make it irresistibly pleasurable, useful and culturally relevant.
- 51. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- Hardly anyone talks about ‘designing’ advertising.
- BTW, not a lot of people talk about ‘designing’ advertising.
- The Target pill bottle isn’t a bottle, it’s a system by Brandon Schauer It’s unfortunate that the 2005 design of the Target pill bottle has too often been treated as just a product design and graphic design solution. Yes, it received much earned respect for being a collaboration of graphic design with industrial design and for its sensitive approach to addressing sometimes life-threatening circumstances. But perhaps because it’s been put on a pedestal at the MoMA that we forgot to check out what’s going on behind the scenes at Target. Target appropriately calls the bottle ClearRX, describing it more broadly as a, “prescription distribution and communication system.” That’s because it required quite a bit of work on the back-of-the-house to make the pill bottles work on the front-of-the-house. Let’s take one aspect of the design as an example. The bottles have rings that fit around the collar of the bottle which are color coded to identify different members of the family — 7 colors in all. The concept is simple enough: Make sure you’re not accidentally taking someone else’s prescription just because the bottles look similar. However, the implementation is much more difficult because Target has to ensure the right color ring is going around the right subscription. Therefore Target’s Pharmacy IT system has to track which family member has which color ring so the colors are not accidentally switched when prescriptions are filled. From listening to Deborah Adler tell the story of working with Target, it’s clear that considerable (if not more) design effort went towards the processes and systems surrounding the pill bottle. It was, “an enormous undertaking… a huge collaborative effort,” she said. Here’s a hint of some of the overall system that had to be coordinated: “I work with the pharmacy team, pharmacy operations… the Target technology team to build the software to accommodate the new labeling system, the marketing team… there were major training sessions to train all the pharmacists on how to use this new system because they were the most important people to us… they were the front line… they had to explain how to use this new system, and they had to learn how to use it.. there was a bit of a learning curve involved.” I’m guessing that it’s not just the design patents that have kept other pharmacies from mimicking the Target pill bottle. The pill bottle isn’t just a new SKU in a retail environment or just a piece of packaging that can be swapped out for the old design. The bottle is just the visible tip of a much deeper system of drug delivery that would take significant time and investment to emulate.
- Charles (1907–1978) and Ray (1912–1988) Eames were American designers, who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film.
- Key thing about these philosophies: Broad, expansive.
- Couple of other things common to all good design philosophies.
- If you ask them, people won’t like the idea. If you ask them to trade off, they’re more open. If you put them in a prototype, they barely mention it. This leap enabled the first flat bed in business class, and added millions to the top-line and bottom-line. So what worked here?
- Think beyond the moment at the fixture.