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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 […]
SES Workshop with Design Firm [toughproblem]
On Wednesday 12 December, the Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design hosted a workshop for members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) from across the Australian Public Service to learn about design thinking from Peter Vozvoteca and Andrew Barter of Brisbane based design firm [toughproblem].1 The workshop covered off […]
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 […]
Design through Coursera – Week 3
This post is the third in a series about the Coursera course ‘Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society’. You can read about Week 1 and Week 2 on the blog. So far the course has covered the basics of design and an overview of the design process (Week 1) and understanding and […]
Design through Coursera – Week 2
This post is the second in a series about the Coursera course Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society. You can read about my overview of Week 1 of the course here. In Week 1 the course covered the basics of design and an overview of the design process. Week 2 […]
Design through Coursera – Week 1
Recently some of us at Centre for Excellence in Public Sector Design (as well as others across the public service plus many more around the world) signed up to do ‘Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society’ through Coursera, a massive open online course. The eight week course is taught by […]
Weekly bits of interest – 24 January 2011
Developments and articles of interest from the past couple of weeks: The Australian National Institute for Public Policy at the Australian National University is offering some Innovation and Strategy courses for Autumn 2011, including “Public Sector Innovation: what, why and how?”. The calendar of executive short courses can be found on their website. […]