Thursday
May062010
WARNING: Designers Tend to Fall Prey to Ideas!
by Alphachimp Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:32PM
Robert "Fabi G" Fabricant is inspiring jealousy (in me) by being in East Africa, blogging, and hobnobbing with the globally challenged superheroes and villains at the World Economic Forum.
His observations in his Fast Company post examine the long shadow cast by the rise of Design Thinking.
Specifically, Fabricant calls out the dirty little secret that designers--while clever, innovative and unafraid of funky footwear--don't actually know how to get stuff done within complex systems.