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Articles, Social Change, Strategic Innovation

Optimism from Social Innovation

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:24 am on April 11, 2011

For Idea Couture, Social Innovation means using social impact as a business strategy. It’s about creating real, tangible value for organizations through tackling social problems. It’s hard to read that and not feel a little more optimistic about the future of business.

Articles, Experience Design, Industrial Design, Service Design, Social Media, Strategic Innovation, Technology

Digital people are the world’s best innovators

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 7:17 am on March 18, 2011

I’m not trying to discount the capabilities of industrial designers, researchers, or architects who’ve found their way into the innovation space, but the qualities of digital innovators put them in a unique position to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

Articles, Ethnography, Experience Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation

The relationship between Design Thinking & Innovation

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:06 am on March 3, 2011

Innovation and Design Thinking are inherently linked. A night on Quora led me to try and make a tangible connection between the two.

Art and Culture, Articles, CSR, Social Change, Social Media, sustainability

What happens when the contest is over?

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 4:15 am on October 25, 2010

What’s the role of government in the crowdsourcing cause competition model?

Articles

I Need These Things Because…

Posted by: aperez, at 11:51 am on March 2, 2010

Articles, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design

Airlines aren’t the only ones to blame

Posted by: Patrick Glinski, at 9:17 pm on December 2, 2009

Designing a decent airport experience is not rocket science. Good airport experiences could go a long way towards helping an industry notorious for experience breakdowns.

Art and Culture

US Interstate Map Meets the London Underground

Posted by: John Lally, at 4:31 pm on November 12, 2009
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