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Continue reading “5 takeaways on digital workplace transformation”My handwriting is terrible. My five-year old can better draw princesses than I can. My handyman skills are extremely limited. And also: I think very differently about color combinations than the wife and daughters I live with. Still, I am sort of a designer.
I am not talking about design in an artistic way. I am talking about human-centered design or design thinking. I am talking about the methodology one can use to solve the most complex problems in business and society.
To embed design-thinking in your work and life, you can learn some methodologies and tools, and of course you need to practice a lot. But is that enough to be successful? I don’t believe so. You can attend dozens of courses and have tons of experience but it won’t make you a true design expert. What you really need is attitude. More specifically, you need a design attitude.
Want to know more about design attitude and discover the 5 essential attitudes for design-thinkers? Read my article on Medium.
Since a long time, patient-centricity is one of those buzzwords in the pharmaceutical industry that should be part of every conference speech or white paper. But if you ask how they have successfully implemented it, people scratch their head. It’s like the Holy Grail: everyone is looking for it but who has ever found it?
Continue reading “Patient-centricity occurs where R&D meets design thinking”15 years ago I started my professional career as user experience (UX) consultant. I was part of a company with a mission: making technology more user friendly. Nowadays user experience design is well known (thank you Apple), but that were still the dark ages of usability. Today Monster.com holds +1000 jobs in the usability field, but when my company in 2001 organized a lecture for university students, I was literally the only one showing up.
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