Designing Change: Critical Creativity in the Digital Age
In my new role as Director of Student Experience in the Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick, working with our other DSEP Rebecca Stone I...
April 24, 2021
The Design Thinking Signature Pedagogy, Feedback and Co-Design with Students
A quick response to a question about how we collect and use feedback from our students. Based on the modules I teach with Dr Bo Kelestyn....
January 13, 2021
Preparing for (mostly) remote teaching in 2020-2021 – how Design Thinkers do it Part 1
I teach 2 interdisciplinary modules at Warwick University with Dr Bo Kelestyn: Introduction to Design Thinking (undergrad) and the new Design Thinking for Social Impact (postgrad)....
September 17, 2020
Design fixation and idea ownership in Design Thinking
Some thoughts on design fixation, and teaching Design Thinking, in response to the article “Whose ideas are most fixating, your own or other people’s? The effect...
August 8, 2020
Teams, team-working, and design principles for supporting it
I recently published an article in which I argued that Microsoft Teams is a team-working platform, works well as such, and we should not try to...
July 1, 2020
Two (virtual) heads are better than one for online lectures
Bo Kelestyn and I were asked to do an online version of our Introduction to Design Thinking lecture for the Humanitarian Engineering MSc at Warwick University....
May 21, 2020
Designing, tame and wild
In Chapter 19 of Thinking, Fast and Slow, the psychologist Daniel Kahneman1 uses an argument that is useful to us in answering the question what is...
January 12, 2020
Workshop: Design Thinking techniques for effective participation in the design process
I’ll be running this workshop on 14th March 2017 at 12.30, Oculus Building OC1.01, University of Warwick. The University is a design rich environment: we design...
January 30, 2017
Calm designs for rich co-presence in crowded learning spaces: countering the fragmentation of the learning community
Here’s the overview for a paper (or possibly a chapter) that I am working on. Acceleration and the centrifuge 2015 marked the 50th birthday of the...
October 13, 2016
Facilitating and accelerating transformative design journeys in complex organisations, a design thinking based approach
What might an organisation as complex, diverse and decentred as a university do to facilitate and accelerate the process through which its members develop/find, learn about,...
May 20, 2016