Category: Design Thinking

• Education shapes the structure of semantic memory and impacts creative thinking

  Quotes from some a recent article, presenting intersting insights on semantic memory and creative thinking. “Education is central to the acquisition of knowledge, such as when children learn new concepts. It is unknown, however, whether educational differences impact not only what concepts children learn, but how those concepts come to be represented in semantic memory—a…

  walterstiers

  2022-02-06

  Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind

• DLT decisions, 5 lessons from Walmart

  I could not resist to summarize the HBR Article on “How Walmart Canada Uses Blockchain to Solve Supply-Chain Challenges”Walmart Canada applied blockchain to solve a common logistics nightmare: payment disputes with its 70 third-party freight carriers. To solve the problem it built a blockchain network. The system has not only virtually eliminated the payments problem;…

  walterstiers

  2022-01-06

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Design Thinking, Information Technology

• Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. (So steal like an artist :-)

  Following is and interesting article/blog , and just “stolen like an artist” from https://www.simonoregan.com/short-thoughts/the-design-difficulties-of-human-ai-interaction Designing for Human-AI interaction is hard. Here Yang et al. catalog where designers run into problems when applying the traditional 4Ds process to designing AI systems. These difficulties can be broadly attributed to two sources: This uncertainty and complexity combination then…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-29

  AI, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Information Technology

  #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens

• Complicated, Complex, Wicked – All Together to innovate…

  Innovation benefits and requires a wicked systems approach, which merges complicated and complex system thinking. Claes Anderssona and Petter Törnberga explain in a very well detailed article the details and reasoning behind, to be summarized as: Some more details I would like to highlight are: Approaches embodying a topdown rather than a bottom-up approach to…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-21

  Complexity, Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Science, Social-Technical

  #Wicked

• Less = More, “Lets Kill”

  One of the great readings recently was the article from Adams, G.S., Converse, B.A., Hales, A.H. et al. in Nature: People systematically overlook subtractive changes. The summary video, clearly marks the point: Experiments show that people default to adding as a solution in various situations. It appears to be an uncommon insight. When solving problems, people prefer adding…

  walterstiers

  2021-10-06

  Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking

  #TheInformationLens

• The most interesting design problem is your life.

  This blog is based on “How to use design thinking to create a happier life for yourself“, which combines the great tools and mindset of design thinking for making life choices. At Stanford, Dave Evans and Bill Burnett teach a class called “Designing Your Life,” which led the book Designing Your Life, Designing Your Work Life and a…

  walterstiers

  2021-08-25

  Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Life Ideas