thoughts from session 11 – creative commons

October 23, 2008

Shopping Cart – IDEO – Dave Kelly

  • Used to be – Chaos discouraged
  • Culture of anyone can talk to anyone
  • Secret weapon for innovation – designs that don’t need modification are only found in nature
  • Process of better design … find the invisible stuff
  • Not experts in any area but rather experts in the area of design process
    • Project Leader – because he’s good with group
    • All same level / No titles / permanent hierarchy
    • Can’t always have “listeners”
  • Find the real experts instead of trying to do it all yourself – learn form others
  • Can’t be at their desk all the time
  • Mocked the establishment (corporate structure)
  • Demonstrate and attempt
  • Deep Dive = total emersion in the problem
    • One conversation at a time, build on the ideas of others
    • Need to have wild ideas and build on them … encourage
    • Focussed chaos
  • Vote with post-its … team enlightened trial and error better
  • Times for there to be autocratic .. Towards the end of the process need to stop the cycle
  • Train the clients before showing them the office …
    • Being playful is hugely important to innovative
    • Design and build your own office space
  • Try and ask for “forgiveness rather than ask for permission”
  • Piece of each idea … “Fail often so that you succeed faster” i.e. experiment, everything is part of a learning experience
  • Design beautiful
  • Hard work, open mind, demand of fresh ideas, team work

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