There are many ways to help an organization spark creative breakthroughs. Developing your inner creative resource is part of the very fabric of creativity. And it’s never too late to start, because creativity is a journey, not a destination. For most people, the idea of creativity may be associated with artists and fashion designers. Yet […]
Read MoreHow to critique user experience design portfolios
Here are seven tips to evaluate UX designers Critiquing user experience design portfolios accurately can be a challenge. It’s tough to know what is appropriate design for a given project, tough to isolate a persons exact role and contribution, and even more difficult if you are evaluating the work of design leaders. To help evaluate […]
Read MoreCreative Intelligence.
By Bruce Nussbaum. In 2011, Dr. Dre was an unhappy hip hop music producer and businessman. He had built n empire on his kind of music, studio music played in clubs for serious dancing. He had designed a very specific music profile–heavy at the bottom but with clarity and good range. He was proud of […]
Read MoreDesigning for culture: a few preliminary thoughts.
By Peter Norlin. As a student of organizations for over 30 years, and as a consultant who helps people co-create “productive workplaces” (the title of a powerful book by Marvin Weisbord), I’ve spent my professional life thinking about how people learn and change, especially at work. In an effort to define and talk about my […]
Read MoreRed Dot design awards – in search of design leadership in industrial design
There is much to say about the unique role of design in innovation and improving customer experience, and growing interest in the role of design as a competitive business strategy. And the broad acceptance of design thinking methods in service design and UX design is a center of conversations. But let’s not take our eyes […]
Read MoreYour style comes from your limitations, not your strengths
By Marty Neumeier. Everyone has a personal style of working, but not everyone has a “good style.” Good style grows out of good taste—an appreciation of the way aesthetic principles determine beauty. Think of your taste as an ability to recognize what’s beautiful, and your style as the way you apply your taste. Personal style […]
Read MoreHow are YOU talented?
By Marty Neumeier. Thousands of people have taken the Metaskills Quiz, the easy online test for assessing five key talents — or metaskills — needed in an increasingly talent-hungry workplace. At the end of this 10-minute quiz, your “talent handprint” pops up, showing you which of the five metaskills you rely on most. Cool. But what does it mean, […]
Read MoreThe aesthetics of management.
By Marty Neumeier. I’m not a big fan of the 13th-century philosopher Thomas Aquinas, but I have to admit, when I first read Ad pulcritudenum tria requiruntur integritas, consonantia, claritas, I was right there with him. Roughly translated, he was saying beauty needs three qualities: integrity, harmony, and radiance. Integrity is the quality of standing […]
Read MoreThe challenge of creative intelligence.
By Joan Vinyets Rejon. Creativity and Creative Intelligence are concepts not well edged. Because they are so ubiquitous, they are easily related to all fields. Many view Creative Intelligence as something soft, often used simply as a marketing trick, a fuzzy concept that is not easily understood. The most widely accepted definition of creativity is […]
Read More“It’s the Creative Intelligence, stuipid”.
By Joan Vinyets Rejon. Today more than ever, there is a common misunderstanding about creativity which links it to an exclusive “artistic” activity (like painting a picture, playing the violin, etc), a kind of “demiurge” experience. This stereotype is missing the real root of creativity as a source of intelligence for processing information and experiences, […]
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