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15 Jan 2022

The Story Of Leah Sass and The Urgency To Reimagine The Creative Industry Post-Pandemic

A few years after Leah Sass got her first UX/UI job as the Lead Product Designer, the market was in flux, and the company started to consider laying off their key staff. The excitement of the job quickly wore off as Leah felt the pressure to perform. She would need to fight for her leadership […]

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04 Nov 2021

How to Rediscover Play in Adulthood – Yes, ADULT, we’re talking to you!

In 1966, Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother and then climbed the Texas Tower, where he killed 17 more people and injured 41 others.  To find out the motives for these senseless killings, the governor of Texas, Governor Connelly, asked Dr Stuart Brown to be on the Fact-Finding Task Force as a consulting psychiatrist […]

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05 Jul 2021

Global Conversation on the Meaning of Design Leadership

As an industry, design is experiencing massive growth. Designers are being asked to transform their organisations into businesses who will thrive in a rapidly evolving global market. We invited design leaders from all over the world to take part in a series of global Firesession webinars to discuss how designers must transform, shift mindsets, and […]

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27 Apr 2021

The Business Impact of Design

Designers around the world are in an incredible position. Culturally we are in a moment of transition, with an estimated impact that has not been seen since the industrial revolution. The influence that designers can and will have on this new emerging world is going to be great. While this is all incredibly positive, there […]

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10 Apr 2021

How To Conduct Research About The Future

How do we uncover what may be possible in the future? With research. Research is defined as a systematic investigation into materials and sources to establish new facts and reach new conclusions about a topic.  The tricky part of applying the process of research to the future is there are no known facts about the […]

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26 Mar 2021

Design Is Leadership: Exploring New Trends In The Industry

The design industry has reached a new level of maturity. Over the past 12 months companies have pivoted, adapted and defined new business models. This was possible because of design. Designers have met their moment in history, equipped with the skills that the next world needs. However, with great success, comes great responsibility. Teams have […]

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13 Mar 2021

Future Scenarios: Clarifying The Possible

The history of future scenario planning is short, when contrasted with the years into the future it can plan for. The first person credited with working with future scenarios is Herman Khan who developed the practice of telling future stories in his work for the US Military and the RAND Corporation in the 1950’s. Prior […]

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01 Mar 2021

Discover Weak Signals To Move Beyond Disruption

Living in a time of disruption creates opportunities for deep reflection. For most of us the last 12 months has been a sustained period of change and the questions that we have been pondering have been profound. Many of us have been wondering; are our outputs important or even relevant in this new world? Do […]

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10 Feb 2021

Data-Thinking and Design-Thinking: Creating Strategic Outcomes

Designers are now solving problems at the intersection of two disciplines : data and design. 20 years ago, I began my working life as a graphic designer performing in global advertising and design agencies. And then my understanding of what design was changed. As the influence of good design grew so did my view of […]

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01 Feb 2021

Growth In The Next Economy: Focus on Customer and Employee Experience

The signals of change planted in 2020 are now expanding in 2021. One of the most important shifts has involved delivering quality customer experience in a low or no touch economy. The second significant shift was the move from the office to remote work. This new online world has exposed some interesting opportunities for companies […]

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