Diagnosis Case Study: Using the 5D framework for inclusive business model analysis
I once spent months immersed in off-grid Kenya’s purchasing patterns of energy, fuel, and light as consulting advisor to a manufacturer of small solar kits for entry level household use. The product was well designed and with a bit of repackaging and clearer positioning it could sell. However, it was not moving although all the […]
Impact of Increasing Complexity on Product Development Strategy
Just before the global announcement of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, I funded a master’s thesis in Product Development thanks to a grant from the Finnish Foundation for Economic Education, known colloquially as LSR. Here’s a screencap that shows the first outcome from our analysis of founder interviews of Finnish startups entering African markets. […]
Synthesis and gestation
Ceramic artist Johnson Tsang’s works have been able to capture my moods of late, although it must be said that this isn’t a mood so much as it represents what is going on with me right now. After more than a year of gestation, my brain is exploding like a supernova. Interestingly, I won’t say […]
Knowledge production as a process
The sense of knowing that some idea is just around the corner, waiting to be born, but still gestating inarticulately. I will dance today with other’s words and put them together in different ways, as I play around with the inchoate. May the 5th 2023 Has the idea been born? Yes. Do I know yet […]
On Nakata’s Cultural Interface Theory
“The research you do will have the power to label, name, condemn, describe, or prescribe solutions to challenges in former colonized, indigenous peoples and historically oppressed groups. You are encouraged to conduct research without perpetuating self-serving Western research paradigms that construct Western ways of knowing as superior to the Other’s ways of knowing”. Bagele Chilisa. […]
Design’s futures
It feels like a lifetime ago when I would sit late at night pondering the future of design at my keyboard on Mason Street in San Francisco’s Nob Hill. Besides, the wench is dead, I’m tempted to quip. My world changed when I took the deliberate and considered decision to move to the Nordics – […]
On Completing a Journey of Ten Thousand Words
On the day I last posted to the blog – 28th July 2023 – I began work on a 10,000 word research article in response to peer-reviewed acceptance of my abstract submitted back in April for a very important conference of relevance and interest. The deadline for submission is the end of the month, but […]
Cognitive Justice at the user interface
Justice has become the hottest topic in calls for papers this year, particularly noteworthy in inter- and cross-disciplinary design and innovation studies. I first came across the theme of justice last year in the IPCC February 2022 report, where the authors defined it as: Justice is concerned with setting out the moral or legal principles […]
May the new worlds being born be natural
I do not know, as I begin this solemn rhythm on my keyboard whether I hit publish on this post or not. If you find yourself reading these words, then know that I did indeed do so. I can feel the new world/s being born. They do not feel industrial. Humankind’s peak industrialization, energy […]
Visualizing Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob’s metaphor of day science and night science
Our breakthrough was the result of “night science”: a stumbling, wandering exploration of the natural world that relies on intuition as much as it does on the cold, orderly logic of “day science.” F. Jacob, The Statue Within: An Autobiography (Unwin Hyman, London, 1988) François Jacob (1920–2013) was an eminent French biologist who won […]
