Tag Archives: design
Weekly bits of interest – 6 May 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The UK’s Design Council has published a report for the European Commission – Design for the Public Good. The report describes the key benefits of design thinking for governments across the European Union Adam Stone investigates the core factors involved in creating an innovative […]
Weekly bits of interest – 15 April 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Do you want to innovate, but don’t know where to start? Tim Kastelle provides a handy summary of 20 things that good managers know about innovation, including that it’s about the process of ideas management as well as ideas, that anyone can innovate, […]
Weekly bits of interest – 8 April 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: Ellen Di Resta writes about the really scary thing about innovation Francesa Gino looks at how simple changes or ‘ethical nudges’, arising from behavioural insights, could assist the US Government with tax collection
Weekly bits of interest – 18 March 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: DesignGov is seeking a designer to join our team for several months to work with them on their major projects, to build design capability in the APS and to apply design within the public sector The Design Commission in the UK has issued a […]
Weekly bits of interest – 12 March 2013
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The Department of Finance and Deregulation is considering delivering a series of 3 hour courses on social media for members of the Australian Public Service. You can register interest through commenting on the blog post by Pia Waugh or by emailing Pia directly […]
Insights from London Conference
Just before Christmas I posted some thoughts about several interesting meetings I’d had with public sector designers and innovators in London a few weeks earlier. I also mentioned I’d spent a day when there at an Inside Government conference: Future Councils – New Ways of Working and Delivering Public Services […]
Welcome to DesignGov (and what we have been up to in our first 6 months)
I am happy to announce in my first blog post as CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design, that the Centre will be known from now on as DesignGov. Our tagline, our statement of intent and what we are about at DesignGov, is ‘Reframing problems, reshaping experiences’. […]
Design through Coursera – Week 8 and wrap-up
This is the fifth and final post in a series about the Coursera course ‘Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society’. In the last lectures of the course, Professor Ulrich looked at supply chains and the need for designers to understand the costs and steps of the supply chain (and that the […]
Design through Coursera – Week 4 (and 5, 6 & 7)
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the Coursera course ‘Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society’. So, despite best intentions, my aim of recounting each of the weeks of the Coursera design course separately has fallen afoul of other priorities. However, for those of you who are interested, here is […]
Weekly bits of interest – 10 December 2012
Some recent developments and articles of interest: The Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design is hosting a ‘show and tell’ event with sharing from the Brisbane design firm Tough Problem, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and from Jane Treadwell, CEO of the Centre. The event is on Wednesday in Canberra and you […]