Mindful business model canvas

Mindful business model canvas

Iterating on a startup innovation classic to allow for vision, mission, and systemic environmental concerns. Facilitating entrepreneurs to build social benefit apps with Applications for Good and with user experience design at MIT, I adapted the now-classic Business...
Universal Empathy Map Template

Universal Empathy Map Template

The empathy map is foundational to the field of design. It helps us catalog and categorize user thinking, feeling and action. Using the template below within interview and sorting activities allows for a more nuanced consideration of the informant’s position. It...
Telling time for slow communication (2020 ed.)

Telling time for slow communication (2020 ed.)

At this time of #remotelife when it appears all relationships are mitigated through screens, it feels appropriate to republish. Slow Communication Manifesto – Because communication technologies continue to supply more ways to rapidly connect people, – Because the...
Designers see the future – to find insights

Designers see the future – to find insights

Originally published at MassArt Design Innovation (updated here) Designers see the future, specifically when surfacing insights. Seeing the end is a multi-step process for the designer, forming wisdom from the body of research about midway. It’s hard. I pace...