Open Design
12 entriesEssays and talks on desire paths, frictionless design, emergence, and OpenIDEO.
What remains durably human—curiosity, agency, empathy, and creative synthesis—as AI, automation, and genomics reshape work.
TED Talk (1.7M+ views) on “desire paths”—how watching the shortcuts people naturally take reveals how to design better products and cities.
Design Indaba is an amazing event in Cape Town each year. It really is worth browsing their videos, in my one below I discuss human needs, the…
Community is king for any collaboration platform or social network: outcomes are primarily a function of the participating users and any software is strictly in their…
One of the unexpected benefits of this talk is people have begun sending me photo's they've spotted from Desire Paths around the world, I'll paste…
You can listen to a stream of the conversation here Designs For Life Duration: 29 minutes First broadcast: Saturday 29 June 2013 Peter Day explores a…
This article is the second of a series of blog posts appearing in Huffington Post here As technology takes the friction out of inviting more and…
This article is the first of a series of blog posts appearing in Huffington Post here When analyzing innovation, we tend to glorify individuals' contributions, both…
This article was originally published in Wired magazine, you can read it here Agility is key in an unpredictable world. Our networks, of people and data,…
Recorded talk and presentation on design, emergence, and building user-centered products.
At the Brisbane Festival of Ideas 2011, hosted by ABC Radio National, I spoke about open innovation and crowd sourcing. You can download the audio and…
This is a break from my usual blog post format but today is a special day: we're launching OpenIDEO - a platform designed to bring people…