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Design Thinking vs. Design Doing

“Design Thinking” is the new design industry buzz word to replace the often overused term “innovation”. I have been following IDEO CEO Tim Brown’s blog on the subject and agree with the majority of his observations. I am sure that we could solve many of the World’s major problems if we just applied more design thinking to them. While design thinking on the front end is hopefully the way of the future, I think some design doing on the back end is what is needed right now.

This is good design

I stopped at Mike and Ed’s BBQ on North College Street for lunch today and was immediately captivated by their 33 gallon sweet tea container. The genius of this is that it solves so many problems at once in such a simple (and memorable) way. Everyone I showed this picture to instantly recognized it as [...]