We all need professional mentoring
A while back I started to offer mentoring and coaching to design professionals. It has been exciting. Even though I have been doing this kind of mentoring and coaching for a very long time, every new...
View ArticleThe Lack of Organizational Design Competence
We see a great interest today in design thinking as a way to foster the creative development of products and processes. However, most of the efforts we see are directed towards the individual....
View ArticleThe Future of Interaction
Yesterday I watched the movie "Minority Report". It has been many years since I saw it. During these years I have often used the movie as an example full of futuristic forms of interaction. And I have...
View ArticlePredicting the future of interaction
Having lived through highly dynamic decades of technology and changing forms of interaction, it may feel as if it is impossible to predict what will come. And in many ways it is. We have over and over...
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New book by Stephane Vial "Being and the screen - how the digital changes...
The latest addition to our MIT Press book series "Design Thinking/Design Theory" is by Stephane Vial with the title "Being and the screen - how the digital changes perception".It is great to see this...
View ArticleExcellent talk by my colleague Jeff Bardzell on how designed artifacts embody...
Here is a link to a talk my colleague Jeff Bardzell did at CMU recently. The title was "Knowledge embodied in artifacts: a problem in design epistemology". Listen and...
View ArticleDevice-Agnostic Experiences
Recently I have seen some writers talk about what is new in interaction design. There are many suggestions, such as storytelling. voice-first design, frameless experiences, augmented reality, emotional...
View ArticleEscaping people, place and time
One of my favorite philosophers, Albert Borgmann, has developed a theory commonly called the Device Paradigm (reference below). The theory states that people are inclined to develop new technology that...
View ArticleHow designers learn
Donald Schon writes in his last book ("Frame Reflection" see ref below) about the process with which designers learn from experience and about how knowledge aimed at supporting designers are...
View ArticleDesign Judgment
In relation to my post about how designers learn I want to add a bit more about judgment and in particular design judgment. I don't think it is possible to overstate the importance of design judgment....
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The misconception about "simple" designs
One of the misconceptions about design is that some designs are simpler and easier than others. The misconception is based on the idea that some designs in themselves are obvious in the sense that they...
View ArticleDesign Thinking and Disciplined Thinking
We all think.Most of us realize that there are different ways of thinking. Most of us also believe and understand that different ways of thinking lead to different outcomes. So, the choice of how to...
View ArticleIs your company designerly enough?
Today a lot of organizations are excited by the notion of design and the ways a designerly approach can enhance their business. Some companies even label themselves as "design companies" or state that...
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Where do you start if you want your organization to become more designerly?
There are a lot of discussions about design thinking today. And everyone wants to be better at design. Every company wants to be more designerly. This is all good. But where do you start if you want to...
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A model of how to become a designer
Any type of learning goes through stages or levels of knowledge and abilities. So does design learning. To become a designer is, as any process of becoming a professional expert, a complex and rich...
View ArticleWhen COVID makes philosophy concrete
In these uncertain times, it is interesting to see how the philosophy of technology by Alfred Borgmann suddenly becomes real and concrete. Borgmann's philosophy is about 'things' and 'practices' that...
View ArticleHow System Designers Think about Design and Methods: Some Reflections Based...
In 1992 I wrote an article that was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. It was based on an interview study I did for my PhD thesis. I have not read this paper since it was...
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New book in our book series
I am happy to announce that we have published a new book in our MIT Press book series "Design Thinking/Design Theory" that I edit together with Ken Friedman. The new book is "How Artifacts Afford: the...
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Our book "The Design Way - intentional change in an unpredictable world" in...
My co-author Harold Nelson and I heard for a while that there is a Chinese version of our book "The Design Way - intentional change in an unpredictable world" (MIT Press, 2012). Just the other day,...
View ArticleThe Evil of Design
In design theory or design thinking, we do not often talk about the evil of design. However, we all know that design, with or without intent, can lead to outcomes that are undesirable or even...
View ArticleGoing back to Bruno Latour and the role of "things"
Over the years I have returned to the writings of Bruno Latour. Every time I do that, it excites me in different ways, sometimes because his ideas are extraordinarily creative, sometimes because they...
View ArticleThe Future of Interaction
In the last chapter of our book "Things That Keep Us Busy - the elements of interaction" we spend some time on what the future of interaction might be. We tried to do it by extrapolating the analysis...
View ArticleA video interview with me by Mehmet Aydın Baytaş on Design Theory and Philosophy
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mehmet Aydin Baytas recently on my thoughts when it comes to design theory and philosophy. you can find both the video and the article at the...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Improving Designing
Happy to see that my latest article called "The Challenge of Improving Designing" now is published in the International Journal of Design. And the article is free to download to...
View ArticleMoving to new site
I have from now, October 2021, moved my blog and site to https://www.stoltermanbergqvist.com/
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