— Part 4 of Modeling in Problem Solving — — This article will make much more sense if you read installment one, two and three first! Modeling and problem solving in practice In the previous installments of this series we have explored all the different pieces of a “model of modeling”, and have seen how it all comes together in the Problem Solving Canvas. We can…

— Part 3 of Modeling in Problem Solving — — This article will make much more sense if you read installment one and two first! Innovating with Frameworks and Problem statements Archeologists researching early medieval Britain have for centuries interpreted skeletons, material remains and artistic production as evidence for a mighty Anglo-Saxon invasion from the Jutland peninsula, following the description of 7th century historian the Bede.

— Part 2 of Modeling in Problem Solving — — This article will make much more sense if you read the previous installment first! The art of modeling In the previous installment of this article, we have followed Priscilla the Professional Problem solver in her iterative adventures around the problem solving hermeneutic loop. She started with a framework (personas), “filled it” with data, zoomed…

When companies think about new opportunity spaces for growth, they typically think in terms of market size and growth, competitive differentiation, and market accessibility. While these are fundamental factors for consideration, sometimes there are subtler aspects that can tell us how a product or service will be received. — This article originally appeared in Designit’s old blog, Matters. By Jonathan Kahan and Hadas Zucker, with contributions from Ofer Senderey

A new paradigm of design thinking can help designers address the issue of privacy at its source — When is the last time that, when seeing the permissions required to download an app, you told yourself “I shouldn’t be doing this, but I’ll download it anyways?” This is a very common tension these days. People may be concerned about privacy risks — according to a Deloitte survey, 40%…

The mission: creating a near-universal heuristic for problem solving. — There is no lack of very wide problem solving frameworks, which I love and use. Much of the inspiration for this project comes from a basis laid down by frameworks and approaches such as: Design thinking/human centered design and the double diamond Cynefin Systems thinking, system archetypes, systems engineering Triz …

A short story — It is a trivial remark that life is short. But it’s not short in absolute terms: in absolute terms, time loses any meaning. It’s short in very specific ways. It is short compared to non-living matter in the universe: “Generations come and generations go, but the Earth remains forever,” as…

I recently moved to a new city with an extremely hectic real estate market. I braced myself for weeks of desperate searches and apartment visits. And as it happens, I fell in love with the very first apartment I visited. What a stroke of luck! But wait, wasn’t I rushing…

Normative implications of a chaotic universe NOTE: For an analytical, succinct exposition of this argument, please see below A normative theory of everything To try make sense of life and our place in the universe we need to come up with a theory of that is both descriptive and prescriptive, i.e.: a fairly accurate description…