Monthly Archives: December 2010

DesignThinkers expands its horizons beyond portfolios to focus on ideas and dialogue

Posted on December 20, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

As someone who has been part of the DesignThinkers conferences from the very beginning – including participating in the planning when I was president of RGD Ontario – it has been interesting to witness the evolution of this event, especially … Continue reading →

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Dalhousie Medical School brings design thinking into its strategic planning process for the first time

Posted on December 15, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

When I arrived at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Medicine just over a year ago, my first task was to deliver a strategic plan for one of Canada’s leading medical schools – a complex organization of more than 1,700 faculty and … Continue reading →

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Design Thinking – more important now than ever

Posted on December 13, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

The first page of the program for DesignThinkers 2010 proclaims that “Design thinking has never been more important.” I could not agree more with that sentiment. And I would also go a step further to say that the annual conference … Continue reading →

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PDF, Flash, Accessibility and recent Canadian Ruling

Posted on December 6, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

Our Adobe colleague Andrew Kirkpatrick commented on the recent Canadian federal court ruling on web site accessibility . He pointed out that contrary to the ruling and to the article, most screen readers can read PDF and Flash files. Andrew’s … Continue reading →

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Converting your clients into design thinkers

Posted on December 6, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

For design thinking to really succeed, it’s not enough today for designers alone to be the design thinkers. After all, that’s what we are trained to do. More challenging is helping clients – who may come from a variety of … Continue reading →

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DesignThinkers – the ultimate ‘connection’ to inspiring ideas

Posted on December 1, 2010 by rgddesignthinkers

We have so many ways to ‘keep in touch’ instantaneously today, thanks to the web, mobile phones, email, text messaging, intranets – the list just keeps growing. It’s all great, of course. But to me, nothing compares with hearing someone … Continue reading →

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