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• 10.17.11
  The last blog post at Design Thinking Digest BizSpark, Community, Current Affairs, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft, Social Media | (0)

  This will be my last post at Design Thinking Digest. For those that remember the more fruitful days of this blog this should come as no surprise--but it felt like a bookend was appropriate. DTD has been an experiment and online journey for me; it's had a relatively modest amount of posting—around 250 posts over the past five years and around 120,000 page views. Around 500 folks read this blog on a regular basis--certainly breaking no social media records but nonetheless an audience that I knew well and that was very important to me. Over the last 16 months my role ...
• 10.17.11
  The last blog post at Design Thinking Digest BizSpark, Community, Current Affairs, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft, Social Media | (0)

  This will be my last post at Design Thinking Digest. For those that remember the more fruitful days of this blog this should come as no surprise--but it felt like a bookend was appropriate. DTD has been an experiment and online journey for me; it's had a relatively modest amount of posting—around 250 posts over the past five years and around 120,000 page views. Around 500 folks read this blog on a regular basis--certainly breaking no social media records but nonetheless an audience that I knew well and that was very important to me. Over the last 16 months my role ...
• 05.06.11
  15 Design Principles Big D Design, Design Principles, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Princples | (0)

  So I’m an “occasional” (nee terrible) blogger.  Most of my time at Microsoft is spent in my role as User Experience Advisor – that means I’m working with our customers to help them produce product or service experiences that give their businesses a competitive advantage through great design.  That should give me a lot to talk about, right? Well, my ‘juice’ comes from the specifics of a project – general abstractions are useful, but often not interesting enough for me to want to spend time writing about it.  This blog post is trying to change that. Over the course of the ...
• 09.20.10
  7 lessons designers can learn from film director John Hughes Conferences, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Microsoft | (0)

  Here are some links to a shorter version of a talk I did at Design Thinking Dallas. This talk is a version I did for TEDx Penn Quarter which happened on July 11, 2010. It’s far from one of my best presentations in terms of this content—but it’s the only publically available one with video. This particular TEDx event was put on in large part with with Cynergy as a benefactor. It was a fantastic event in Washington DC and I really enjoyed the TEDx format—although the speaking format is absolutely harder than it looks. As with all TED ...
• 07.10.09
  Dynamic Prototyping With SketchFlow in Expression Blend Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Sketchflow | (0)

  One of the things I’ve been quietly working on over the past months has been a book that details some significant new features available in Microsoft’s Expression Blend tool called SketchFlow. Let us know what you think. You can learn more about the new features and the book at www.dynamic-prototyping.com
• 07.09.09
  Innovation: Laying the groundwork in the enterprise Design Thinking, Innovations, Microsoft | (0)

  This post is adapted from a paper that appears in the Journal of Business Strategy entitled Cultural Innovation in Software Design: The New Impact of Innovation Planning Methods. In the world or celebrity fame often seems to come overnight—sometimes it does. With entrepreneurs and startups success often seems to happen overnight as well. In truth, many great ideas and, and stars, are made and shaped over time. This is double true in the enterprise, where size and inertia can sabotage the best of intentions. Many of the successes we see in the market place today—or that are imminent, really ...
• 06.26.09
  Productivity: Business value in software development Design Thinking, Innovations, Microsoft, Technology | (0)

  My last post looked to the past to explain how productivity was a key to Microsoft’s initial success but that new business models and the ascent of the internet has changed that equation. One simple way to illustrate this is to look at software development. Historically software development has had it’s roots in what is good for the IT organization. Is it cheaper, easier, manageable for technologists to do what they need to accomplish? This was pretty evident in the systems design and command and control structure of technology as it evolved in the 50s through the 80s. ...
• 06.22.09
  Resetting Design Thinking Digest Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Microsoft | (0)

  It’s been some time since I’ve used Design Thinking Digest as much of a forum, for commentary or curation. Some of this is because I’ve found tools such as Linked In, Facebook and Twitter have replaced much of what I used Design Thinking Digest for—but some of it is probably also due to what I’d characterize as ‘social media fatigue’. After SxSW and MIX I wasn’t certain I was contributing much that was unique or that warranted a blog post. Over the past three months a big part of my daily activities I’ve spent quite a bit of time ...

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