Jamin Hegeman

Tag: design culture

  • A Culture of Wanderers

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    “Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.” –John Dewey Presently, it will be a year since I started working at Nokia. Since starting, I have been involved in several back-to-back projects with the usual short time frames and high demands. If ever ideas began to…

  • Call To Redesign Organizations

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    Recently, Jonathan Ive, of Apple, had some thoughts on the key to Apple’s success. He bemoaned designers who always have excuses for their work not turning out as intended. His advice: “If you really do care about the quality of what ends up getting made, wouldn’t you find an answer, some sort of alternative, and…

  • Process not a differentiator?

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    Last week I had a chat with Jeff Howard, during which I described the presentations at the Service Design Network conference in November. My observation from the conference is that service designers seem to know what service design looks like. The process shown during the presentations looked very similar. This prompted Jeff to suggest that…