A friend recently told me he’s worried AI will make his design skills irrelevant, that clients will soon use AI-powered tools instead of hiring him.
I told him, “Focus on doing what AI can’t.”
Tag Archives: design thinking
Start With The Customer Problem, Not The Technology
Generative AI is still looking for its killer app. Sure, there is a niche number of people getting great results using LLMs for work and other activities to be more efficient and productive. Still, most of the existing generative AI solutions out there are hunting for a problem to solve.
Design Thinking Is Not A Safe Way To Be Creative
“If you think design thinking is a cookie-cutter, templatised way to “safely” be creative, think again.” Absolutely! This is a quote from my friend Sunil Malhotra. It’s a topic we’ve talked about extensively, and one that still gets talked about it.
If You Want To Learn Problem Solving, Learn From Designers
in Innovation
Earlier in the week I was having a conversation with a friend who asked me about problem solving. He wanted to know my thoughts on the best way to learn how to solve problems. My response: If you want to learn about problem solving, learn from designers.
Demystifying Design Thinking with Sunil Malhotra
Just like innovation and artificial intelligence, design thinking is a buzzword. There is a cottage industry of practitioners who, with good intention or not, are hoping to get their pockets full from enterprises who want a step by step process that reduces the uncertainty behind innovation.
Until You Have Creative Skills, Innovation Tools Are Useless
in Innovation
Check out this insight:
#Productivity tools can't help if you don't already have this one skill mastered. Find out what it is: https://t.co/wgdryZ9r0B @HarvardBiz
— Brian Tracy (@BrianTracy) August 20, 2016
The same holds true for innovation: Innovation tools can’t help if you don’t have certain skills mastered.…
Design As Strategy: How Design Can Improve Your Business Outcomes
Design thinking. is it a methodology, mindset, trend, the new must in business acumen, or all of the above?
Regardless of your interpretation, it has been around for quite a while. The bottom-line is most leaders still don’t understand how exactly it helps improve or drive new business outcomes. If you will like to have some help understanding this, check with Bob Bratt.
Why?…