August 2009
20 posts
It is a noble goal to design sacraments for a sacrament ennobles matter.
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Design has a responsibility to remind us of something greater.
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Design is a process that moves us away from the role of a dictator and towards...
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Design Thinking works best when one has a ‘prepared mind’.
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It is a noble goal to show the invisible through the visible.
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Design often lives in the space of ‘problem solving’ and it strives to live in...
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Design Thinking revolves around the key concept of Unity in Diversity.
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The most popular use of design makes business strategies visible. The true...
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Identity is the formation of mental models as we interact with the world around...
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Our success depends on the success of others.
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Design is the space between negation and affirmation.
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Mastery in design is found in the reconciliation of paradoxes.
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Stories can offer a non-linear meaning that is presented in a linear format.
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Enlighten self-interest is interest in others.
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Falling forwards is to walking as illogical thought is to design.
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Design thinking changes our mental models, which change our actions, which...
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Design, both on a macro and micro level, is nothing more than a pattern of...
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Design Thinking is creativity with a direction.
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Design is series of sub-wholes.
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Design has a steady pulse of consistency and change.
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July 2009
83 posts
Our models of the world are neither good nor bad. We can ask only if they are...
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An action can be said to be ecologically sound when it works to create new...
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Design is a state of creative tension that encourages a balance between the push...
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Past design success may have been built on individuals; its future will be built...
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Design & nature: only when a balance is formed between competition &...
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Design & nature: the Web of things & the Flow of things. Everything...
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Nature is one of the few phenomena that can be called a true ‘circle of...
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When we solve a problem we often solve it in isolation. When nature solves a...
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Ecology is the science of relations between organisms and their environment. It...
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Looking to the past has a danger of imitation. Looking forward has an excitement...
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Design thinking and design operations are always within a larger context of an...
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An individual cannot flourish outside an ecology, it is only ‘in relation’ that...
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Design can often function best when it is incomplete.
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Design becomes alive with a rhythmic ‘heartbeat’ between design thinking and...
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When nature designs efficiency is a given. Nature never commutes to work.
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We can design ‘emergence’ by focusing on relationships.
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The flow of creativity is fueled by value sensitivity.
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Design is the space between expression and idea.
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The pattern I seek doesn’t allow my eye to rest in 1 place, or a concept...
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A sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inner spiritual grace.
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A sense of humor is a gauge to judge an adequate understanding of reality.
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Design is a series of levels in an ascending order of complexity.
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A designer seeks not only facts but more importantly their causes.
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A statement in isolation does not tell us if we should interpret it at directly,...
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A tightrope walker can balance only by making constant random movements with his...
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Acts of creation can transcend objects of creation.
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Stories offer deep understanding.
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Design is the action of hierarchical ordering.
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All design is subject to entropy.
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A design process is a process of circular questioning.
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