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No longer from the furniture store, but with a download from a website, design goods take the form of a digital blueprint that the consumer takes to the local manufacturer for customizable on-demand production.   In collaboration with Waag Society, Droog is working with a network of designers, digital distributors, manufacturers and material suppliers to develop new business models and product designs for Downloadable design. Through a world wide platform for design distribution two pilots will be implemented to test the developed models and designs.   Possible benefits include lower product costs, less transport and less waste, new design concepts, more variation, possibility of co-creation, lower investment due to no warehousing, more responsive production chains, and involvement of the consumer in the design outcome. Not only for day-to-day goods, Downloadable design can play a role in global urgencies.   Currently we are in the design and development phase, look out for further announcements soon.

This presentation’s content was based on these two original posts: “Design Thinking is Killing Creativity” and its follow up post “How Can We Fix the Problems of Design Thinking“. Do have a look as the originals if you would like some more background information. For the purposes of this presentation, I took the opportunity to clean up the content and add a few new details.

The Mobile Design Conference took place during the Barcelona Design Week 2010 and was presented by bcd.es and dotopen.com Conference theme: Designing the networked city Speakers: Kevin Slavin, President and founder of Starling. New York Matt Jones, Director of Design at Berg. London Fabien Girardin, Co-founder of Lift lab. Barcelona Hugo Zaragoza, Researcher at Bestiario Barcelona

The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The free kit, available for download here, walks users through the human-centered design process and supports them in activities such as building listening skills, running workshops, and implementing ideas.

The design process is what puts Design Thinking into action. It’s a structured approach to generating and developing ideas. The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators, available as a free download here, provides guidance through the five phases of the design process. It outlines a sequence of steps that leads from defining a challenge to building a solution. The toolkit offers a variety of instructional methods to choose from, including concise explanations, useful suggestions and tips.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is launching the second edition of a competition to design an innovative, sustainable and creative design product, including packaging, with a strong civil society message.

Design Thinking ist ein Prozess der Schüler unterstützt Lernen zu gestalten, ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich und ihre Umgebung zu lenken und diese letztendlich selber aktiv mitzugestalten. Schüler engagieren sich mehr und erzielen eine höhere Lernleistung, wenn sich der Lernbezug auf reale Projekte und für sie relevante Situationen konzentriert.

A place where artists and designers can swap art for free.

That tool is abductive reasoning

The vast majority of students are exposed to formal logic only by inference and then only to the two dominant forms of logic — deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning.

Formal logic isn’t systematically taught in our North American educational system, except to students of philosophy or the history of science.

In this post, you’ll find an overview of useful and handy tools that can help you increase your productivity and improve your workflow. Some tools are more general, the others are more technical, yet we hope that this round-up has something to offer to every one of our readers. Please feel free to leave your comments and share with us which one of the tools you’ve found most useful and interesting.