One Design Thinking Tip You Can Use Right Now
Design thinking has its origins in the training and the professional practice of designers. Yet, these are principles that can be practiced by everyone and extended to every field of activity.
If you’re ready to start designing your life here’s one design thinking tip from Change By Design you can use right now:
Once a Day, Deeply Observe the Ordinary.
Good design thinkers observe. Great design thinkers observe the ordinary.
Make it a rule that at least once a day you will stop and take a second look at some ordinary situation that you would normally look at only once (or not at all)—as if you were a detective at a crime scene. Be curious about the familiar things we normally take for granted. Why are manhole covers round? Why is my teenager heading off to school dressed like that? How do I know how far back I should stand from the person in front of me in line?
If we immerse ourselves in what Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison call “the Super-Normal,” we can gain uncanny insights into the unwritten rules that guide us through life.
Try it today. What did you observe?
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10yThis is the pure essence of constant critical thinking... always asking "why" about everything... even the smallest and most insignificant things. Of course, my doing this drives "normal people" crazy.
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11yVery true! I do it unconsciously most of the time! Is a great practice to solve problem, understand how things work and admire people that have design things that solve our daily little problems! Thanks for bringing that out!
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11yGreat tip. uncanny insights.
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11yawesome thought !
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11yVery important topic - thanks Tim; i actually think every day about these situations - as this habit helps me to stay off the stress - off course life is full of surprises and i still get stressed, but now it happens less. What i collect now is popular sayings, i like to think about deep meaning of it and then compare to similar saying in Russian, kills my time during daily commute, when i am tired from reading - for very simple example "murphy's law" which means - "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" - in Russia people say "law of dirty trick" or "law of bread and butter" as usually bread with butter drops on butter side down - comparing always fun and knowledgeable + people hear some things from their childhood and the true meaning is hidden to them as they are repeating same saying as a figure of speech not knowing who Murphy was