This document discusses the importance of designing products and services based on empathy for customers and their needs. It outlines Microsoft's approach of being customer-obsessed, simple, focused, agile, innovative, data-driven, and diverse & inclusive. The CEO Satya Nadella is quoted emphasizing that empathy makes companies better innovators by helping meet unarticulated customer needs. The future of design is predicted to involve richer, more realistic interfaces that are centered on understanding people rather than just producing new products.
Growing your business through design driven innovationHan Toebast
18 April 2017 I lectured about Design Thinking and Prototyping at the British Aerosol Manufacturers' Assocation. The audience was about 100 people and consisited of directors, product managers and technical engineers with a focus on aerosol innovations
I talked about how Design thinking can help to differentiate in service management between competitors, but mostly in the perception of customers during a congress in Zoetermeer.
A short introductory presentation on User Experience and it's importance to Consumers. Briefly touching the different aspects of User Experience, from general Rule of Thumbs in User Experience Design to more in-depth concepts such as Lean UX and Holistic Design.
Growing your business through design driven innovationHan Toebast
18 April 2017 I lectured about Design Thinking and Prototyping at the British Aerosol Manufacturers' Assocation. The audience was about 100 people and consisited of directors, product managers and technical engineers with a focus on aerosol innovations
I talked about how Design thinking can help to differentiate in service management between competitors, but mostly in the perception of customers during a congress in Zoetermeer.
A short introductory presentation on User Experience and it's importance to Consumers. Briefly touching the different aspects of User Experience, from general Rule of Thumbs in User Experience Design to more in-depth concepts such as Lean UX and Holistic Design.
Bootstrap Business Seminar 4: Building a Business ModelCityStarters
Presentation by Ben Mumby-Croft for City University London's Bootstrap Business Seminar programme. This presentation focuses on the Business Model Canvas and how to plan your business model.
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
Business Model Canvas Innovation for Publishers and Newspapers. Ed Capaldi WA...Ed Capaldi
Business Model Canvas. Business Model Innovation. Value Proposition Canvas. Newspapers and Publishers. Steve Blank. Ed Capaldi. Netflix, Nespresso, Buzzfeed. Innovation in Product and Services is no longer sufficient, new business models based on #JTBD and associated Customer Pains and potential Gains is a must have if you are going to survive the decade.
To create rich, technologically enabled experiences, enterprises need close collaboration between marketing and IT. In this session, Razorfish's Ray Velez will explain how to companies need to organize for innovation by applying the principles of agile development. He will share his experiences working with global brands to solve business problems at the collision point between media, technology and marketing.
Presenter: Raymond Velez, global CTO, Razorfish @rvelez
Share How the Design mind set
can help us to bring the team together
to Understand & Explore problems and needs putting
the user into the center of processes and How we can iterate over insights and unleash our creative potential.
Through the Doug Dietz's MRI(GE Heath Care) case we could see 'How we can go deep into the user perspective to understand their needs and generate ideas and prototypes to deliver meaningful experiences with personal value.
Talked about IBM Design heritage and
urgent need to deliver experiences
and how the new IBM Design are building a
new Design culture.
Tasting a little of Empathy & Ideation & Storytelling
+ Uncovering our Stakeholders
+ Practicing Empathy through the Personas
+ Generating & Choosing Ideas
+ Telling a story about our Personas and how we can help them
Lean Launch Ventures Presentation on the Business Model CanvasRob Caucci
The following is a high-level presentation I gave to the inaugural portfolio class of the Lean Launch Ventures accelerator program. It introduces the audience to the Business Model Canvas, and what the intersection of Lean Startup and the Business Model Canvas looks like.
This slide deck offers the author's proposal of the amalgamation of various discussions in the areas of innovation to compile an early stage intrapreneurship framework. Work from Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, Tina Seelig, and others is referenced in this short compilation.
Design Thinking Guide for Successful Professionals- Chapter 1archholy
Design thinking is a powerful thinking tool which could drive a brand, business or an individual forward positively. It is also a part and parcel way of thinking that designers go through in their minds in every single design project. Thinking like a designer can transform the way organizations develop products and services on the front end, while improving processes and strategy to the backend. It is a way of simply thinking and ideating on a solution to address a problem or better meet a customer need. It is a process focused on solutions and not the problem.
This is a 182-page power packed book that will provide insights on how to solve problems creatively using proven design thinking tools
Download PDF Book here: https://payhip.com/b/hM4U
Download iTunes eBook here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/complete-design-thinking-guide/id1022432207?ls=1&mt=11
Preview Book here: http://www.emerge-creatives.com/#!design-thinking-guide-for-success/c5jg
Twitter: @designthinkbook
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/designthinkingbook/
Bootstrap Business Seminar 4: Building a Business ModelCityStarters
Presentation by Ben Mumby-Croft for City University London's Bootstrap Business Seminar programme. This presentation focuses on the Business Model Canvas and how to plan your business model.
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
Business Model Canvas Innovation for Publishers and Newspapers. Ed Capaldi WA...Ed Capaldi
Business Model Canvas. Business Model Innovation. Value Proposition Canvas. Newspapers and Publishers. Steve Blank. Ed Capaldi. Netflix, Nespresso, Buzzfeed. Innovation in Product and Services is no longer sufficient, new business models based on #JTBD and associated Customer Pains and potential Gains is a must have if you are going to survive the decade.
To create rich, technologically enabled experiences, enterprises need close collaboration between marketing and IT. In this session, Razorfish's Ray Velez will explain how to companies need to organize for innovation by applying the principles of agile development. He will share his experiences working with global brands to solve business problems at the collision point between media, technology and marketing.
Presenter: Raymond Velez, global CTO, Razorfish @rvelez
Share How the Design mind set
can help us to bring the team together
to Understand & Explore problems and needs putting
the user into the center of processes and How we can iterate over insights and unleash our creative potential.
Through the Doug Dietz's MRI(GE Heath Care) case we could see 'How we can go deep into the user perspective to understand their needs and generate ideas and prototypes to deliver meaningful experiences with personal value.
Talked about IBM Design heritage and
urgent need to deliver experiences
and how the new IBM Design are building a
new Design culture.
Tasting a little of Empathy & Ideation & Storytelling
+ Uncovering our Stakeholders
+ Practicing Empathy through the Personas
+ Generating & Choosing Ideas
+ Telling a story about our Personas and how we can help them
Lean Launch Ventures Presentation on the Business Model CanvasRob Caucci
The following is a high-level presentation I gave to the inaugural portfolio class of the Lean Launch Ventures accelerator program. It introduces the audience to the Business Model Canvas, and what the intersection of Lean Startup and the Business Model Canvas looks like.
This slide deck offers the author's proposal of the amalgamation of various discussions in the areas of innovation to compile an early stage intrapreneurship framework. Work from Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, Tina Seelig, and others is referenced in this short compilation.
Design Thinking Guide for Successful Professionals- Chapter 1archholy
Design thinking is a powerful thinking tool which could drive a brand, business or an individual forward positively. It is also a part and parcel way of thinking that designers go through in their minds in every single design project. Thinking like a designer can transform the way organizations develop products and services on the front end, while improving processes and strategy to the backend. It is a way of simply thinking and ideating on a solution to address a problem or better meet a customer need. It is a process focused on solutions and not the problem.
This is a 182-page power packed book that will provide insights on how to solve problems creatively using proven design thinking tools
Download PDF Book here: https://payhip.com/b/hM4U
Download iTunes eBook here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/complete-design-thinking-guide/id1022432207?ls=1&mt=11
Preview Book here: http://www.emerge-creatives.com/#!design-thinking-guide-for-success/c5jg
Twitter: @designthinkbook
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/designthinkingbook/
In this presentation we explore the link between business need and customer need and how to innovate (and remove business problems or discover business opportunities) through persona creation and Design Thinking
Presentation given at Bethel University's art program. Focuses first on my history and path to innovation planning and the second half gets into how are artists can create value for business. Definitely some repeat slide from other presentations.
Laura Mocanu of Elite Vision Coaching has an impressive background as a Marketing Professional in her native Romania. This combined with her own career change and a passion for continuing education sets the tone for her work. A business mentor for the Prince’s Trust and Well Being Officer for NIAMH, her own trajectory is an excellent model for what it takes a client to maximize their potential and illustrative of the "Design Thinking" she teaches.
An audio of this presentation can be found at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6x32tx449nofqi/14%20Laura%20Mocanu.mp3?dl=0
www.evisioncoaching.co.uk
@EVisionCoaching
My keynote from the UX South Africa 2014 conference in Cape Town, South Africa
It's a look at the state of play including:
- It's still easy to find poor website UX in South Africa
- Informing digital strategy by making and launching things
- Problems that executives of traditionally non-digital companies face as software slowly eats the word - and some solutions: Proactive research, digital product management, agile...
- Some of the skills and talents that unicorn UX designers need to have
Design Thinking Comes of AgeThe approach, once.docxdonaldp2
Design
Thinking
Comes
of Age
The approach, once
used primarily in product
design, is now infusing
corporate culture.
by Jon Kolko
ARTWORK The Office for Creative Research
(Noa Younse), Band, Preliminary VisualizationSPOTLIGHT
66 Harvard Business Review September 2015
SPOTLIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN THINKING
HBR.ORG
There’s a shift under way
in large organizations,
one that puts design
much closer to the
center of the enterprise.
Focus on users’ experiences, especially
their emotional ones. To build empathy with
users, a design-centric organization empowers em-
ployees to observe behavior and draw conclusions
about what people want and need. Those conclu-
sions are tremendously hard to express in quanti-
tative language. Instead, organizations that “get”
design use emotional language (words that concern
desires, aspirations, engagement, and experience)
to describe products and users. Team members
discuss the emotional resonance of a value propo-
sition as much as they discuss utility and product
requirements.
A traditional value proposition is a promise of
utility: If you buy a Lexus, the automaker promises
that you will receive safe and comfortable trans-
portation in a well-designed high-performance ve-
hicle. An emotional value proposition is a promise
of feeling: If you buy a Lexus, the automaker prom-
ises that you will feel pampered, luxurious, and af-
fluent. In design-centric organizations, emotion-
ally charged language isn’t denigrated as thin, silly,
or biased. Strategic conversations in those compa-
nies frequently address how a business decision or
a market trajectory will positively influence users’
experiences and often acknowledge only implicitly
that well-designed offerings contribute to financial
success.
The focus on great experiences isn’t limited to
product designers, marketers, and strategists—it
infuses every customer-facing function. Take
finance. Typically, its only contact with users is
through invoices and payment systems, which are
designed for internal business optimization or pre-
determined “customer requirements.” But those
systems are touch points that shape a customer’s
impression of the company. In a culture focused
on customer experience, financial touch points are
designed around users’ needs rather than internal
operational efficiencies.
Create models to examine complex prob-
lems. Design thinking, first used to make physical
objects, is increasingly being applied to complex, in-
tangible issues, such as how a customer experiences
a service. Regardless of the context, design thinkers
tend to use physical models, also known as design
artifacts, to explore, define, and communicate.
Those models—primarily diagrams and sketches—
supplement and in some cases replace the spread-
sheets, specifications, and other documents that
SPOTLIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN THINKING
But the shift isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about apply-
in.
Design Thinking Comes of AgeThe approach, once.docxcuddietheresa
Design
Thinking
Comes
of Age
The approach, once
used primarily in product
design, is now infusing
corporate culture.
by Jon Kolko
ARTWORK The Office for Creative Research
(Noa Younse), Band, Preliminary VisualizationSPOTLIGHT
66 Harvard Business Review September 2015
SPOTLIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN THINKING
HBR.ORG
There’s a shift under way
in large organizations,
one that puts design
much closer to the
center of the enterprise.
Focus on users’ experiences, especially
their emotional ones. To build empathy with
users, a design-centric organization empowers em-
ployees to observe behavior and draw conclusions
about what people want and need. Those conclu-
sions are tremendously hard to express in quanti-
tative language. Instead, organizations that “get”
design use emotional language (words that concern
desires, aspirations, engagement, and experience)
to describe products and users. Team members
discuss the emotional resonance of a value propo-
sition as much as they discuss utility and product
requirements.
A traditional value proposition is a promise of
utility: If you buy a Lexus, the automaker promises
that you will receive safe and comfortable trans-
portation in a well-designed high-performance ve-
hicle. An emotional value proposition is a promise
of feeling: If you buy a Lexus, the automaker prom-
ises that you will feel pampered, luxurious, and af-
fluent. In design-centric organizations, emotion-
ally charged language isn’t denigrated as thin, silly,
or biased. Strategic conversations in those compa-
nies frequently address how a business decision or
a market trajectory will positively influence users’
experiences and often acknowledge only implicitly
that well-designed offerings contribute to financial
success.
The focus on great experiences isn’t limited to
product designers, marketers, and strategists—it
infuses every customer-facing function. Take
finance. Typically, its only contact with users is
through invoices and payment systems, which are
designed for internal business optimization or pre-
determined “customer requirements.” But those
systems are touch points that shape a customer’s
impression of the company. In a culture focused
on customer experience, financial touch points are
designed around users’ needs rather than internal
operational efficiencies.
Create models to examine complex prob-
lems. Design thinking, first used to make physical
objects, is increasingly being applied to complex, in-
tangible issues, such as how a customer experiences
a service. Regardless of the context, design thinkers
tend to use physical models, also known as design
artifacts, to explore, define, and communicate.
Those models—primarily diagrams and sketches—
supplement and in some cases replace the spread-
sheets, specifications, and other documents that
SPOTLIGHT ON THE EVOLUTION OF DESIGN THINKING
But the shift isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about apply-
in ...
The report provides an overview about the program, speakers, some highlights and results from the workshops conducted at the first Design at Business Conference on Nov 1 & 2, 2016in Berlin.
The baseline is shifting. Users are more tech savvy than ever, and what worked for many users even two years ago will not work. In this panel Joseph Dickerson, User Experience Lead for Microsoft, discussed the different engagement models that have emerged or are emerging.
Wearables, Internet of Things, responsive web apps, social media… what communication channels should you support, and why? And what will the future bring? This presentation will help you understand some of the implications of the new experiences that are emerging and how they deliver information.
Originally presented at Digital Summit Dallas in Dec 2014, this deck details how lessons from Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do philosophy can be applied in UX design... and in life. Based on the Uxmag.com article I wrote of the same name.
Will we ever have a "cashless" society, like in Star Trek. In this panel (originally created for the official Star Trek convention) writer and technologist Joseph Dickerson discusses the possibility and how the economics of Trek works.
What Star Trek character are you the most like? And what character could you NEVER work with? In this presentation, writer Joseph Dickerson discuses how the DiSC personality profile system can be used to understand what Trek character aligns best with your personality. He’ll also provide insights on how you can use this information to work with people more effectively!
In this study, Joseph Dickerson, User Experience Architect at Fortune 500 company Fiserv, details how users engage with their mobile devices everyday and discusses representative personas that reflect this usage.
In this presentation Joseph Dickerson, UX Architect for Fortune 500 Company Fiserv, discusses best practices in UX design for mobile with some practical examples and approaches. Topics covered:
- How to do mobile ethnographic research, to understand mobile personas and usage patterns
- Designing for the "immediacy of now", "ego-centric design" and for context of use
- Designing for device constraints
- Mobile usability testing and documentation
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
7 Alternatives to Bullet Points in PowerPointAlvis Oh
So you tried all the ways to beautify your bullet points on your pitch deck but it just got way uglier. These points are supposed to be memorable and leave a lasting impression on your audience. With these tips, you'll no longer have to spend so much time thinking how you should present your pointers.
12. How Design Thinking works for us
The culture we are building at Microsoft
Customer
obsessed
Simple,
focused,
& agile
Innovate Data driven Diverse
& inclusive
Business
aligned
Common Foundational Principles
Observe People
Form Insights
Frame Opportunities
Brainstorm Ideas
Prototype and
Experiment
INSPIRE IDEATE IMPLEMENT
18. “Empathy makes you a better
innovator, the most successful
products we have created come
from the ability to meet the unmet,
unarticulated needs of customers.”
Satya Nadella
Hello and good morning! It is great to be back in Sydney. As you heard my name is Joe Dickerson and I’m a lead UX architect in Microsoft Services.
Just to let you know, before coming to Microsoft I worked on a big project for Westpac that resulted in me living here for almost two years. And I’d move back in a heartbeat if the opportunity presented itself.
It is indeed an honor to be here talking to you about Design Thinking, and some of the things Microsoft is are doing in that space.
It’s an exciting time in the field – and I’m especially happy to be heare because we are approaching the 50th anniversary of Design Thinking.
Herbert A. Simon first discussed what we now call Design Thinking in his book The Sciences of the Artificial. And as I see first-hand Design Thinking embraced by companies around the world, he was definitely onto something.
This morning I’m going to talk about three things. Balance. Empathy. And the Future.
Let’s start will balance. And a little history.
Microsoft has been around over 40 years. And Microsoft started out with what some people called a crazy vision. “A PC on every desktop and in every home.”
It was about bringing technology to the masses.
The past decade Microsoft has shifted it’s focus. Now it’s not about bringing technology to people, it’s about making the technology usable and accessible to all people. Under Satya Nadella a people-centric model has become our focus,
This is my favorite quote of his – as a user experience professional, this warms my heart…
So how do we provide the best experience for users? It’s about balance.
Balancing out the needs to the user, the capabilities of the technology, and the business drivers that all companies have. It’s about finding that “sweet spot” where the best experience solves problems, uses the right technology, and drives towards the desired business outcomes.
What happens when this balance is not reached? I look at it as three legs of a stool – if the legs are not the right length you will end up with a rickety stool – or falling on your face.
Here’s an example where that balance was not achieved. Who here has heard of Juicero?
This was a startup that a few years ago sold an Internet enabled juice machine.
For $700 dollars, you could get this device for your kitchen to select different juices, automatically reorder juice packs, and keep hydrated.
The thing was… it was technology aligned to solving a problem that didn’t really exist. Who needed a juice machine connected to the Internet?
It even had digital rights management built into the juice packets, so you could use it with other juicing machines…
Of course, this was easy to hack. Cut the end open and squeeze!
Understanding that technology needs to align with how people work and what they do, companies need bring the best solution to market – not just A solution.
Thankfully, Microsoft has never done anything like that.
Here’s how Microsoft strikes that balance.
We make sure that business stakeholders are part of the conversation, engaged in the design thinking workshops and iterations.
We also leverage anonomyzed telemetry data around usage, do user research to understand what people do, and do collaborative design sessions to get everyone’s ideas.
This is not a new approach for us. There’s a great article on this website Socket 3 that discussed a whitepaper on how Windows 95 was designed.
For everyone here who is not old, this was the version of Windows that came out in 1995.
Here’s a look at the process. This very much aligns with much of the activities that occur in Design Thinking.
A core focus of our efforts as part of our design approach is to understand the user’s needs.
Again, how do people work, what do they do, what are their pinpoints, and what do they need. We always start with the user – and often don’t even think about technology until we define what that experience could or should be.
And this baseline is always changing – the baseline of user expectations today around what is a good online experience is very different from what users expected 10 years ago. Or twenty years ago, Keeping that in mind is a key approach.
A good example of this is cell phones…
Here’s my first cell phone. AT the time I was the envy of all my friends and family because I could take calls IN MY CAR.
THAT was the new baseline. Now, obviously, we can do a lot more with our cell phones.
Another key approach to how we apply Design Thinking is Empathy. Understanding who the user is creates an empathy point and allows us to be designing for someone instead of creating something.
And here’s another Satya quote. This represents the type of vision and focus that is driving our efforts around design thinking.
And specifically, around Inclusive Design. We have a dedicated team and process around Inclusive Design Thinking.
The definition of disability has changed. Years ago it was defined as a personal condition – now, it’s thought about as a mismatch between the person and their environment. And we can use technology to solve for that mismatch.
As an example of how Microsoft is doing that, I’d like to show a video.
The Gudiedogs project led to the Soundscape product, which you can now download on your Apple phone. This is a great example of how we applied design thining to solve a problem. How can we create a 3d map using sound for people whoa re visually impaired? It’s a remarkable project and I’m happy my team played a part in it.
There’s a lot of great material on Microsoft’s site around our Includive Design approach as well as some job aids and tools – I urge you to seek out this information and leverage it to think about how you can apply Includve Design Thinking to your projects.
Because if you design for all users, you will often find the solution you produce is better than it would be otherwise.
Now, I’d like to talk about the Future. And when you look at this image, you can see that the future is not what it used to be.
But I’d like to share my thoughts about where I think things are going and some trends in experience design and technology.
To me we have just finished up a new Cambrian Era of UI design. For those of you here who are not paleontologists, this was the age in which there was an explosion of variety in life on earth – millions of new species and variations began, and eventually this resulted in a much smaller, less diverse set of life.
When you look at how web and mobile apps have been designed over the past two decades you can see a similar motion in design. Users have learned how controls work, and designers have aligned to that expectation to make their designs more obvious and aligned with that expectation.
Because of this I often tell young UX professionals to focus less on the UI and much more on designing the actual end-to-end experience – As we saw with Soundscape app with advances in technology sometimes the user experience may not involve any scenes at all.
Another thing that I think the future will bring is a different approach at rendering interfaces. You see here an example of Fluent Design, which is Microsoft’s effort around making UIs be more aligned to reality.
Fluent Design looks at aspects such as light, motion, and texture. Google and Apple are also exploring this space…
And one of the main reasons this is important is, with augmented reailty, often the interfacees users will be interacting with, both now and in the future, will not be on a screen.
One other thought on the future of experiences… We talked about the journey Microsoft has gone on the past 43 years… and recently Satya Nadella talked about what I think is the next step in our journey.
It’s about the technology that is all around us… And at Build last month Satya talked about this… Instead of having a computer on every desktop and in every home… The world is a computer.
That is an amazing way to look at technology.
When you look at ambient computing internet of things, and artificial intelligence, there are some amazing opportunities to leverage this technology to create new and amazing experiences for users..
I’m working on projects that I never thought could be done even five years ago. And now, some of those crazy “green-field, blue sky” ideas that often come out of Design Thinking Workshops… well, now, we can actually start doing some of those things.
Microsoft reachers have gotten close to 100% accuracy in real time translation.
So, I talked about three things today – I’d like to close talking about one more thing. Hope.
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a pretty hardcore fan of Star Trek. I’ve loved the show for most of my life, flaws and all, and one of the main reasons is that it was always grounded in hope. We will continue, we will explore and get better… And in that journey technology will not be the enemy, it will be a tool – well save for the occasional evil computer or the Borg.
While there are troubles in the world I still have that hope – a hope that we can use this technology to make people’s lives better. That we can use techniques such as Design Thinking to envision solutions to problems large and small. The future we will invent is about the choices we make, not something that just happens.
In closing I’d like to ask all of you to be please, be open to the new ideas the brilliant speakers here will share with you this week… And take those ideas and make great new experiences for your users afterwards. Or, in other words… Boldly Go.