Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Synectics & Pughsion™

Synec­tics Class Exer­cise As I’m fin­ish­ing up with an online Finan­cial Man­age­ment class that is all num­bers, I was just think­ing how I’d rather be facil­i­tat­ing cre­ative think­ing right now. Then I start­ed think­ing back about a pre­sen­ta­tion my for­mer class­mate Rebec­ca Mahl and I did on the prob­lem solv­ing method­ol­o­gy synec­tics, as well as […]

Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies and iPods

This is very enter­tain­ing to watch. In this TED Talk, magi­cian Mar­co Tem­pest uses three iPods as props to dis­cuss truth and lies, art and emo­tion. I can’t imag­ine how long it took to exe­cute this per­fect­ly!

Designing A Difference: Part 2

Design­ing A Dif­fer­ence — Small­bean Part 2 on Vimeo Almost one year ago, I wrote about a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Design Muse­um Boston and Small­bean to devel­op the next gen­er­a­tion of Smallbean’s solar suit­case in a post titled Design­ing A Dif­fer­ence: Smallbean’s Solar Suit­case. Here is phase two of the project, which focused on refin­ing con­cepts […]