4 ms·
> It’s a short blog post about struggles with a TV remote, and then an image of an MSPaint remote which LITERALLY has hieroglyphics on it When it comes to "des
by nmfisher 6y ago
> It’s a short blog post about struggles with a TV remote, and then an image of an MSPaint remote which LITERALLY has hieroglyphics on it
When it comes to "design thinking", that practically amounts to a PhD thesis.
As a rule I try not to be negative, but on occasion I just have to make an exception. "Design thinking" is one of them.
One of the stupidest names or concepts ever invented.
Rightly or wrongly, I write off anyone who uses the term unironically as a new-age huckster shilling brainless, overpriced seminars to clueless execs.
Now product design, on the other hand, is a completely separate issue. That's a real field with people who actually do something other than write blog spam and filch money out of companies.
- kthejoker2 6y agoLike a true Scotsman, allow me to just say that the work David Kelley, Tim Brown, and others did to translate the work product of Ray Loewy, Don Norman, Dieter Rams, Walt Disney, Max Faget, Michael Graves, Saul Bass, and so many other design legends into a unified framework for "thinking about design" is and remains groundbreaking. And it is always amazing the number of people who are beneficiaries of strong design thinking practices in their own lives through the products and services they consume who see no value in applying it to their own products and services. But, like Agile and DevOps and a thousand other things, the "hucksters" (or, to be most charitable, the surface-level practitioners) outnumber the experts and drown them out in a crowded field.