nice coverage in user experience-focused community blog

Tom Humbarger picked up the topic and nicely covered several points in this Design Thinking discussion in the Catalyze blog.

from innovation to trend in a heartbeat

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Build, launch, tweak, measure, repeat. Digital experiences seem to be ‘always in beta’–learning and evolving along the way.”
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To mull over the entire article, start mulling here

might it be that maybe designers don’t necessarily “get it” ?

An article which is critical to our conversation by Bruce Nussbaum from BusinessWeek. Nussbaum is assistant managing editor in charge of the magazine’s innovation and design coverage.

Titled “Design vs. Design Thinking” this is a conversation continuing on the topic raised by Christopher Fahey’s recent comments.

event calendar – new community for UX + BA

Design Thinking has been listed as a featured event on the Catalyze.org calendar. This community is targeted to business analysts and UX professionals and it’s free to join.

See event listing on the site

According to this “about us” – Catalyze is a place to share, learn, find resources, offer opinions, get involved and make connections.

What seems a smidge different is the peer-based content where members can create their own blog inside the Catalyze blogosphere.

Some resources with major snazziness worth a visit:

TED Talks – John Maeda: Simplicity Patterns
Peter Morville ( Google Tech Talk) – Ambient Findability and The Future of Search
“Why focus on the design of big things? – Corey Glickman

parsing the subject of design thinking

Chris has posted on his blog about the conference too. A great opportunity to hear this thought leader speak to the North Texas community.