Design & Critical Thinking

Ceci est la version francophone de nos sessions informel « Virtual Chalet ». Ces rencontres récurrentes (une fois toutes les 2 semaines) existent afin que la communauté Design & Critical Thinking (D&CT) prenne le temps et l'espace pour discuter, faire du sense, partager des idées et des expériences, trouver du soutien, poser des questions, etc. Cette semaine nous discutons des évolutions de la demande autour de la pratique du design avec la pandémie, le besoin de faire du sens pour prendre des décisions, du problème des dashboards, du Design Sprint, et d’un discours sur les neurosciences & l’UX design. Participez au prochains évènements 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Rejoignez la communauté (en anglais) sur Slack 👉https://join.designcriticalthinking.com 🔗 Liens partagés pendant la session 👇 Le framework de l’explorateur et la métaphore de l’ile → https://explorer.designcriticalthinking.com Un framework de sense making (création de sens) et de prise de décisions → https://productfield.com  L’agence de Stéphane → https://primitive.swiss  Le projet Wikihero de Alexis → https://www.wikihero.org

The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the community to take the space & time to discuss, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc. This week we discuss how cultures & languages shape our understanding of design, how English and a form of US colonialism exist through the profession & its related education. We also talk of UX Design and our relationship to consumerism & capitalism, and the shortcomings of the current forms of design education. Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com 🔗 Links and resources that have been shared during the session 👇 Marc’s current reading → “What Tech Calls Thinking” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721237/whattechcallsthinking Anarcho-Capitalism In Practice → https://youtu.be/HTN64g9lA2g Should we all lose faith in UX? UX, Surveillance Capitalism, and the “Banality of Evil” → https://uxdesign.cc/should-we-all-lose-faith-in-ux-a24288fd11a4 ↳ One of the main trigger of this questioning → https://creativegood.com/blog/21/losing-faith-in-ux.html ↳ And one of the best reply of this first trigger → https://scottberkun.com/2021/put-faith-in-ux-design/ Fixing The 2 Key Problems in CX/UX Education → https://rbefored.com/fixing-the-2-key-problems-in-cx-ux-education-782550e36710

Ceci est la version francophone de nos sessions informel « Virtual Chalet ». Ces rencontres récurrentes (une fois toutes les 2 semaines) existent afin que la communauté Design & Critical Thinking (D&CT) prenne le temps et l'espace pour discuter, faire du sense, partager des idées et des expériences, trouver du soutien, poser des questions, etc. Cette semaine nous discutons de la multiplicité du “Design” et des différentes disciplines & pratiques de ce domaine, ainsi que du trend autour du Design Systémique et du Systems Thinking. Nous parlons de philosophie(s), de définitions, et de concepts autour du Design et de l’innovation, ainsi que d’esprit critique. Nous abordons aussi l’importance d’écrire pour aider à penser et pour créer un medium d’échange. Participez au prochains évènements 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/ Rejoignez la communauté (en anglais) sur Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com Bonne année à tous! 🎉 🔗 Liens partagés pendant la session 👇 Le podcast Design Québec: https://open.spotify.com/show/3LTwLU37KyZ1l7jslmZljH?si=79f7f2bdb11f422c La conférence Web à Quebec: https://webaquebec.org Le framework Cynefin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework Exaptation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation Blog de la communauté D&CT: https://blog.designcriticalthinking.com Le blog de Kevin: https://kevinrichard.ch

The "virtual chalet" is a recurring informal event (once every 2 weeks) for the Design & Critical Thinking community to take the space & time to discuss, make sense, share ideas & experiences, find support, ask questions, etc.  This week we discuss design practice (and practising design) and the misunderstanding around the importance of methods, the importance of context, the trends around Systemic Design and Systems Thinking, the Design Council's report on systemic design, and many more… 🌟 Join our next session 👉 https://www.meetup.com/design-critical-thinking/  Join the community on Slack 👉 https://join.designcriticalthinking.com  Happy new year everyone! 🎉 Links and resources shared during the session For designers wanting to spread their own virus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSat_gLDXPc  The book "Designing social systems in a changing world" developing the double diagram: https://vdoc.pub/documents/designing-social-systems-in-a-changing-world-6sne9v818r80  About methods and applicability: https://www.amazon.com/Against-Method-Paul-Feyerabend/dp/1844674428  John Mortimer's work on service design, systems thinking, and the double diamond: https://www.improconsult.co.uk/systemic-triple-diamond.html  The Design Council report: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/resources/guide/beyond-net-zero-systemic-design-approach

An invitation to be explorers, not just problem-solvers We tend to see design and innovation as problem-solving spaces. This engineering and sometimes mechanistic approach is not bad in itself but brings a lot of limitations, one major being to quickly frame whatever challenge into a narrow, finite, solution. When facing uncertainty, designers, and changemakers might feel unempowered. We look for recipes and pre-packaged generalist solutions — “the answer”, that sells an illusion of certainty through the economy of speed — to help us disambiguate our very specific contexts. “Problem-solvers look for answers. Explorers look for better questions.” Exploration makes the invisible visible. This multi-layered understanding will add more potential to our portfolio of possibilities. “Problem-solvers reduce options. Explorers enable possibilities.” New challenges are invitations to become curious explorers, in a world where everything is believed to be known, predictable, ordinary. Reclaim space for curious exploration The explorer’s framework is a set of ideas for designers, innovators, changemakers, to help approach challenges and problems in ways that add layers (rather than subtract), enable possibilities (rather than reduce), diversify points of view, and enable a portfolio of strategies & actions to tackle (complex) challenges (rather than single-point solutions). Exploration is not to be opposed to conception — it is a useful tension. Exploration should be pursued as a parallel, ongoing, journey with no clear end. It is the philosophy & ethics of the curious, humble, learner. Learn more → explorer.designcriticalthinking.com designcriticalthinking.com

Today, we discuss Planet Centric Design with Samuel Huber, Design Strategist at GoodPatch who specialised in sustainable design approaches. Samuel also pursues a Ph.D. in Systemic Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Here's what we discuss: - Welcome - Who's Samuel Huber? - Who said Planet Centric Design? - A definition for Planet Centric Design (PCD) - The old becomes new again - PCD simplifies access to complex topics - On labels & the need to reframe our way of working - Planet Centric, Circular Design, Systemic Design, etc. - Maps, Models, the tree & the forest: the value & limits of reduction - Our tools are biased towards humans - Resolving contexts gap: how can we practice PCD? - The limits & ethics of interpretation - Mitigating our bias toward the problem-solution dichotomy - Planet Centric Design in practice Samuel Huber https://samuelhuber.medium.com https://twitter.com/samphuber GoodPatch https://global.goodpatch.com https://medium.com/goodpatch-global University of St. Gallen https://ifb.unisg.ch/en/

This is a “collaborative drawing session” with the Design & Critical Thinking community turned into a podcast –drawing as a medium for exploration. Look at the video here → https://youtu.be/0vk7lh1_iZQ In this session, we explored the concept of “Insight” and our relationship with it by visualizing and building on each other's ideas.   Our ability to see through the conditional interpretation of our experience helped us face the loopholes and blind spots of our perception. Insights are volatile and fleeting.  They can grow cold if not used at the right time. Our internal alignment can give us both richness of insights and momentum to build concretely on them. This is our shared story at the edge of the visible with the invisible.  🌟The Design & Critical Thinking community https://designcriticalthinking.com 👏 Special thanks to our fantastic members! 👇 Krasi Bozhinkova https://www.linkedin.com/in/krasi-bozhinkova/ Cameron Norman https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdnorman/ Daiana Zavate https://www.linkedin.com/in/daiana-zavate-13036016a/

In this episode, we discuss with Pascal Briod, Head of Product at Monito, about user research and UX design in a Startup company. From the very inception of the company to managing a growing team of UX & UI professionals, Pascal had to basically learn & practice many aspects of design & product management at the same time. This helped him build a very pragmatic approach to UX, research,  and design decision. 🔗 About Monito Monito is a Swiss-based company, specialized in money transfer provider comparison.  🔥 Monito is looking for a Senior UX/UI Designer and a Product Manager. Find out more 👉 https://www.monito.com/en/jobs

Voici un nouveau format, "La Critique", dans lequel nous prennons un article, un media, ou une affirmation que l'on analyse. Aujourd'hui, nous analysons un article d'une agence française, qui nous présente ce qu'est la CX (Customer Experience) par rapport à l'UX (User Experience). Here is a new format, "La Critique", in which we take an article, media, or statement that we analyze. Today, we are analyzing (in french) an article from a French agency, which presents us what CX (Customer Experience) is in relation to UX (User Experience). Article original → https://www.usabilis.com/cx-ux/

Dans cet épisode, nous discutons avec Stéphane Bonnier de design et  d’agilité organisationnelle. Stéphane apporte une lumière unique grâce à sa longue expérience dans le business & en tant que chef d’entreprises, et nous donne des clés quand à la facilitation du changement et de la transformation des organisations par le design & l’agilité. 🌟À propos de Stéphane Bonnier: Business Designer, après une formation de base en mathématiques spécialisées, il étudia les sciences cognitives durant 2 ans et devient ensuite titulaire d’un diplôme en économie d’une école de Hautes Etudes Commerciales. Il acquit de l’expérience dans des grands-groupes suisses puis européens et y assuma pour certains d’entre eux la direction pendant plus de 10 ans. Pour Stéphane, les méthodes agiles, c'est comme le débat Bohr-Einstein, tout le monde s'accorde sur les principes de la mécanique quantique mais il est encore aujourd'hui impossible de dire qui a vraiment raison. L'utilisation des méthodes agiles dans les entreprises est reconnue, mais est-ce que leur mise en place est toujours en adéquation avec les structures, les enjeux politiques et les objectifs intrinsèques d'une société ? Depuis 10 ans, Stéphane interagit auprès d'entreprises pour trouver le point d'intersection entre tous les aspects qui font le quotidien d'une entreprise et la réussite des objectifs aussi bien financiers qu'en ressources humaines et stratégie. Le point commun entre sa démarche et celle d'Einstein est que "Dieu ne joue pas aux dés" !