Langara Design Thinking March 2023

I spoke to the design thinking class taught by Katie Davis at Langara College on Mar 22nd, 2023
The DSNG 1300: Design Thinking Course description:
- Design Thinking is a methodology used to create effective and memorable products and experiences. It is a non-linear, iterative process in which solutions are generated by empathy and proven through measurable data. This problem-solving process can be applied to any discipline that seeks to enhance the lives of a group of people. In this course, students learn to understand users, define problems, and create solutions to prototype and test. Exploring human-centred design principles, such as listening, observation, empathy, and collaboration, students solve real-world problems from ideation to proven prototype.
IDEO has a mini site IDEO Design Thinking
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Background Links
- When we talk about innovation, and about design, we have to think about what is possible
- What is possible is constrained in part by current “technology”
- Even more so, it is constrained by the capabilities and types of people doing the implementation, inside the organization that is innovating
- I have built companies, open source projects, digital apps, and communities for many years, and I want to share with you some concepts, frameworks, techniques, and ways of thinking that have formed a foundation in thinking about the world
- Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-town-planners-and.html
- Wardley Maps https://learnwardleymapping.com/
- Bret Victor The Humane Representation of Thought https://vimeo.com/115154289
- Digital Gardens, Second Brains, and Tools for Thought
  - Obsidian https://obsidian.md/
  - LogSeq https://logseq.com
  - Notion https://www.notion.so/
Presentation
- Introduction
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    - Boris Mann/About
    - I’m a technologist by training, with a Computer Science degree from the University of Victoria
    - I’ve worked for one big company, Nortel, that was Canada’s biggest tech company. I was there in Ottawa during the dot com boom and then bomb
    - I moved back to Vancouver in 2003 and have been helping to build Vancouver and Canada’s startup community since then
    - My first company was Bryght, the first commercial company focused on the #opensource Drupal #CMS
    - I’ve also been in a number of investor roles. I created the first startup accelerator in Canada, Bootup Labs, in 2007, just in time to get flattened by the last economic downturn
    - I went on to run a small seed investing fund called Full Stack, and ran an angel group called Open Angel Canada
    - Today, I’m the CEO and cofounder of Fission, a startup working on
  - Wardley Maps
    - “Remember, all models are wrong but some are useful”
    - Simon Wardley
    - Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners
    - From Genesis / Bespoke to Commodity / Utility
    - A form of Organizational Design aka #orgdesign
  - Bret Victor
    - The Humane Representation of Thought
  - Lean Startup, Eric Ries
  - On Note Taking and Social Media
    - Prompt: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn?
      - How many of you follow design leaders?
    - Prompt: note taking
      - Blogging or personal website?
      - Second brain / digital garden?
      - Daily Notes Page
        
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