{"id":60,"date":"2007-09-12T19:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T19:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbl.lishost.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/explaining-what-design-is-can-be-a-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T19:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T19:12:59","slug":"explaining-what-design-is-can-be-a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/2007\/09\/12\/explaining-what-design-is-can-be-a-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining What Design Is Can Be A Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always found it a bit of a challenge to find good, short, memorable messages that can provide a simple but powerful way of communicating the concepts behind design thinking. I’m currently reading the book Made to Stick<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(great read BTW – more on it later), and that’s already providing some good ideas on how to create a better way to deliver the messages that will effectively communicate why this is an important set of skills for librarians who want to design better libraries. As I develop those messages I’ll be sharing them with the readers of this blog for your feedback and opinions. Right now, I\u00c2\u00a0am developing\u00c2\u00a0some slides and messages (e.g., “design thinking is a way of solving library problems the way designers solve design problems”)- which are a good start but perhaps still too vague to quickly capture an audience’s attention and have them wanting to learn more.<\/p>\n

Well I see I’m not the only one trying to develop better ways to,\u00c2\u00a0with\u00c2\u00a0simple and effective\u00c2\u00a0messages, communicate about design and design thinking\u00c2\u00a0so that it will stick. Take a look at Design Session 01<\/a>, a video made by design student David Ngo, that tries to explain what design is. While it is somewhat amateurish and a bit corny in spots it looks like this video, which is the first in\u00c2\u00a0what will be a series of videos on design, has some promise. Well, take a look and see what you think.\u00c2\u00a0Perhaps a video on design thinking for librarians might have some possibilities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always found it a bit of a challenge to find good, short, memorable messages that can provide a simple but powerful way of communicating the concepts behind design thinking. I’m currently reading the book Made to Stick\u00c2\u00a0(great read BTW – more on it later), and that’s already providing some good ideas on how to … Continue reading Explaining What Design Is Can Be A Challenge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-thinking","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/stevenb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}