d.studio week 2: start-up CEOs!
What is one of the best ways to learn about business? Doing it! Creating a business from the ground up. And the next best thing may be hearing from and getting to know people who are starting businesses. The d.studio students and I were in awe of the eight young entrepreneurs who visited (or skyped […]
d.studio week 1
Launching the 2012 d.studio — COMM 486J for Sauder undergraduates. In catch-up mode — it is week 3 and here I am just blogging about Week 1. That’s what happens when you take 5 days out to go to Maui! This year it is exciting — we are occupying an actual studio space (albeit not […]
d.studio marker required
d.studio. Thinking Strategies. Co-creativity. COMM 486J will be offered again starting in January. It will run in the brand new d.studio space (HA 338) on Wednesdays from 2:30-5:30pm. Here is the job posting: Comm 486J d.studio Marker Job Posting Apparently application forms are available from the wall pocket beside the job posting board — I […]
d.studio marketing blitz
What happens when you put two talented Sauder undergrads to work on marketing the d.studio for next spring’s sessions? Wow. Selena Shannon and Ryan Yu took on the task of making the sauder community aware of design thinking and of the Spring 2012 d.studio offering. Their marketing plan looked like this: week one: presence @Sauder Digital […]
10 Take-aways from the d.studio
Making lists is a wonderfully creative activity. Challenging oneself to generate 3 ideas, 10 ideas or 50 ideas really does help push the envelope and go beyond. So I am challenging myself to articulate 10 important take-aways for me from the undergraduate d.studio class experience: Teaching and Learning is Fun and Energizing: Am reminded how […]
Design-Thinking 101: Discovery
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries – A. A. Milne As a fourth year Commerce & Economics BCOM student at the brink of graduation, learning something original and completely out of the box was the last thing I expected from my final year. Of course, every […]
d.studio week 13: the finale
The d.studio Community of Practice was launched on Wednesday December 1 — just after the 24 students in the d.studio course presented their final projects to their clients. The event was in the Museum of Vancouver. As a side-note it was amazing how many people don’t know where the Museum of Vancouver is — or what […]
d.studio week 12: 3-d design thinking
This week was essentially the last d.studio class of 2010. Evaluations were completed. And each team presented their storyboards for the presentation next week. As I said mid-way through: “Ron and I failed to explain storyboards well enough.” Most of the presentations were indeed that — skeletal presentations of what is to come next week. […]
d.studio week 10: from diverge to converge
There is a magical and sometimes difficult to ascertain point in any design process when you have to move from “let’s have some more ideas” to “let’s decide which ideas get to stay”. Or as Ron said yesterday, this is the time to move from diverge to converge. It is a tough time in the […]
d.studio week 9: mapping the processes
As we proceed through the term in the d.studio, I continue to think about the added value of design thinking to business. One of the recurring themes is how visual design thinking techniques can be. Or at least how I think about pretty well everything in visual terms. Even if I am working in words, […]