Designdrives

https://www.designdrives.org/episode/12

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https://www.designdrives.org is the podcast about the value of a design-driven process for innovation, sustainable business growth and institutional change for the better. Design drives innovation, business-transformation and industry-disruption by putting people first and connecting the dots. Subscribe on the website to be notified as soon as we launch!

Great insight about the future of design and business. Worth reading.

Very interesting thoughts! “Disability is an engine of innovation.”

”The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing—building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. Once you understand what they really value, it's easy because you can mostly give it to them. You can give them the freedom or direction that they want.”

Designit on Experience Design. Good read for the holidays. “Design is not about beautification, nor is it about solutions or utility. In todays business landscape, design is about meaning and significance. In our quest to capitalize on technologies, design is our tool for simplifying and humanizing technology” In his presentation, our Strategy Consultant Tzachi Toledo shared his thoughts on the changing role of design and the importance of experience design as a competitive edge in digital transformation. The talk took place in Visa's annual event for the Polish Visa members Banks on December in Warsaw.

The Design Council has been working with the Arts & Humanities Research Council to measure the value that design thinking brings to small businesses. What we found is that design thinking does so much more than just make products look nicer or work better, it improves the way a business operates. Our research found that not only can design thinking increase the range of products a business develops, but it can also lead to more inspiring workplaces, happier staff, better service and, as a result, greater customer satisfaction.

Fjord Trends 2016. Worth to check this out. How are our devices learning from our critical micromoments? How is digital technology making luxury available for the masses like never before? And are we about to see a major shift in the mobile app landscape as it evolves from being user-controlled to proactively powering a user’s life?

Interesting statistics.

With a complex piece of UI, if you don’t simplify it enough, people can’t figure out how to use it. But if you swing too far in the other direction and over-simplify it, you risk dismantling the very value that people are looking to access through the tool.

At PSFK's Future of Retail 2016 even in San Francisco, Ethan Eismann, Director of Product Experience at Uber, provides key insights into Uber's design thinking. To download the full Future of Retail 2016 report, visit psfk.com/future-of-retail

The World’s Most Disruptive Companies Reveal How They Design the Future.

If the success of Apple has seen the rise of the product designer, then the fact that several billion dollar companies were started by designers confirms that design is driving innovation across the world. People who are aware of this new phenomenon might start to wonder: what gives design its power to disrupt the world? The new documentary film, Design Disruptors, invites us to take an intimate look into the processes, perspectives and approaches of the leaders at the world’s foremost technology firms.