Mark Rolston, chief creative officer at frog design, argues in this presentation, given at the DMI conference 2009, that the time is ripe for "less design thinking and more design doing." He highlights the importance of craftsmanship and calls for an agile concept of design strategy that embraces both the ambiguity and the materiality of the creative process.
3. The Fog of War
"The great uncertainty of all data in war is a
peculiar di culty, because all action must,
to a certain extent, be planned in a mere
twilight, which in addition not infrequently
— like the e ect of a fog or moonshine —
gives to things exaggerated dimensions and
unnatural appearance."
Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian military analyst, 1800’s
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4. “The implicit assumption that thinking
is somehow removed from the act of
design itself. That is, if we get some
really smart folks together to ponder
and brainstorm paradigm shifts,
great stu will come from it.
This is mildly delusional at best.”
Bob Brunner, in Fast Company
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49. “We consider that the architects in every
profession are more estimable and know
more and are wiser than the artisans,
because they know the reasons of the
things which are done.”
Aristotle
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65. failure points
discover design deliver
strategy and design research then development team
folks do their thing, defining the vision, then the designers design it (software and hardware)
the solution, and the requirements builds it
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66. discover design deliver
strategy and design research then development team
folks do their thing, defining the vision, then the designers design it (software and hardware)
the solution, and the requirements builds it
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67. !
insight design build
convergence of convergence of
insight with design design with development
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68. !
insight design build
convergence of convergence of
insight with design design with development
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