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Want to be Creative? Embrace the Contradictions Within
Creative personalities could be considered complicated. That's a good thing. Want to be more creative? Embrace the complexity. Want to encourage creativity at work? Allow the complexity to flourish.
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True, Sustainable Design = Revealing Beauty
Beauty is not caused it is - Emily Dickinson Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. -Michelangelo What if we all acted as if Beauty is?
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That’s YOUR Chunk of Open Office Space, This is MINE…
Open office spaces may undermine the behaviours they're supposed to foster.
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Innovation Can Change the World When Spelled: L-O-V-E
Being more authentically human means that love should play a role in designing innovations.
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Censoring the Censor – The Key to Increasing Creativity
Paying attention to what's being censored is key to increasing creativity.
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Four Insights Into Great Innovation From Ernest Hemingway
Great Innovations are the result of these four traits.
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Innovating Healthcare Using Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design
Healthcare is in need of re-design. Designer, Dieter Rams, provides 10 principles to inform this re-design process.
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Innovation (and Living!) Starts with Seeing
"Looking" and "Seeing" are not the same thing.
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Innovation in Non-Profits and Churches
Interesting insights into the experience of a church embracing innovation
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“What Can I do? I’m One Person.” How About Build a Country? That’s Innovative...
Today is the 4th of July. I sat down and re-read the Declaration of Independence. Read it for yourself. Brilliant Simplicity. The Beginnings of something great and glorious. Empathy Introspection and...
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Designing Delighting Moments – Sing “Hello” to Dr. Carey Andrew-Jaja
This video is the definition of delighting customers. It’s no secret that delighting customers is extremely profitable. But it can also have another side effect. It can create a better world. Enter...
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Making Lightning – The Creative Spark in All of Us
The sky went from sunset blue to thick blackness that the windshield wipers swiped at with futility. The rain pounded the the car and an uneasy, queasy feeling filled the air as a tornado warning was...
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Battling Negative Body Perceptions by Designing Life-Giving Experiences of Self
A friend of mine who is an art teacher, shared a recent experience. Her class of 1st graders had just finished their Mondrian artworks and they were placing them on a rack to dry. As one girl...
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Innovation and Independence Both Start with”I” (Happy 4th!)
Innovation and Independence both start with “I”. It’s not a coincidence! This country was founded by people who said, “I am going to make a difference!” Those are the same words spoken by entrepreneurs...
View ArticleBecoming Your Best Creative You – Guest Podcast Appearance
People do their best innovation, they’re at their most creative when they are fully themselves, embracing all they are and moving forward . In this interview I talk about my perspectives on creativity...
View ArticleWhat’s the Common Thread in Product, Service and Life Design?
Every design is filled with questions: Why is this here? What is its purpose? What will a person experience when they encounter this product or service? Plants and animals in nature don’t have...
View ArticleEmbracing Your Creative Genius – The Road to Authenticity
Every ceiling has cracks in it. You don’t have to break through, just look for the light. Listen for it. Feel it. Explore and reach for it. Follow it, thru the cracks, bathe in it, breathe it. Glow...
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