This publication explores a very special kind of design-the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses.
Frame innovation: create new thinking by design
by Dorst, Kees
fromDesign thinking, design theory
Frame innovation: create new thinking by design
by Dorst, Kees
fromDesign thinking, design theory
When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed -- open, complex, dynamic, and networked -- and require a radically differe…
Frame innovation: create new thinking by design
by Dorst, Kees
fromDesign thinking, design theory
Dorst describes a new, innovation-centered approach to problem-solving in organizations: frame creation. It applies "design thinking," but it goes beyond the borrowed tricks and techniques that usually characterize that term. The strategies presented are drawn from the unique, s…
