Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Debate: How to Brainstorm Effectively

In my recent post Susan Cain: The pow­er of intro­verts, I men­tioned that I agreed with Cain’s view on brain­storm­ing — that it is ben­e­fi­cial to allow par­tic­i­pants to brain­storm on their own before dis­cussing ideas in a group set­ting. Then last week I came across more arti­cles dis­cussing the pro­ce­dure of brain­storm­ing.

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 […]

Design Thinking: A Solution to Fracture-Critical Systems

This inter­view with Tom Fish­er, Dean, Col­lege of Design at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta, dis­cuss­es the val­ue of design think­ing in solv­ing many prob­lems with “frac­ture-crit­i­cal sys­tems” that we have seen recent­ly as well as the increas­ing impor­tance of a design edu­ca­tion.