Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

The Four Phases of Design Thinking

The Four Phas­es of Design Think­ing: Ques­tion. Care. Con­nect. Com­mit.

Inspiration, Brainstorming and the Creative Process

A col­lec­tion of arti­cles and videos cov­er­ing the top­ics of inspi­ra­tion, brain­storm­ing and the cre­ative process.

The Design Imperialism Debate

As soon as I wrote my post about Emi­ly Pilloton’s Design Rev­o­lu­tion Road­show, my hus­band was quick to show me this arti­cle writ­ten by Bruce Nuss­baum over at Fast Com­pa­ny: Is Human­i­tar­i­an Design the New Impe­ri­al­ism? This arti­cle has caused quite a stir in the design com­mu­ni­ty. At first glance, I found the arti­cle to […]

A Map of My Work Life

After a very slow day at work, I decid­ed to kill some time by map­ping out my work his­to­ry just like Adam Richard­son did in his post “Map­ping My Work Life” on frog design’s design mind blog.

Design Revolution Roadshow: Changing the World by Design

What began as a tour for Emi­ly Pilloton’s book, “Design Rev­o­lu­tion: 100 Prod­ucts that Empow­er Peo­ple,” end­ed up becom­ing much more. Pil­lo­ton used her 2009 Sap­pi Ideas that Mat­ter Grant to turn the book tour into a mobile exhi­bi­tion with work­shops and lec­tures geared towards inspir­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of young design­ers and pro­mot­ing the idea that design can have a pos­i­tive social impact.

Different Flavors of Design Management

A look at the dif­fer­ent “fla­vors” of design man­age­ment and how the great scope of the dis­ci­pline affects how it is both per­ceived and taught.