Like many people who read our blog, I am interested in art as well as design. In fact, I cross back and forth between both worlds on a daily basis. Literally. More
We spend a lot of time in front of clients. When we get a chance to sit in the audience and let other researchers and designers talk, it’s a welcome change of pace. Exposure to new models, new tools, and new ideas is one way we keep our work fresh and our thinking current. More
Our method is how we make a difference.Usually it’s illustrated in three concentric circles, drawn by Kevin or Chris on the whiteboards in our conference room, or in the conference rooms of potential clients. More
The go-to image when you think of “letting go” probably involves parents dropping off their kids on the first day of school. Most of us were part of that experience as kids, some of us as parents. The work we do at Peopledesign sometimes aligns us with the third party in this scenario: the school. More
The Fulton Street Farmer’s Market across town from our office in Grand Rapids has been providing a harvest of locally grown food more than 80 years. If those stalls could talk they’d share stories about a time when the local open-air market was the center of commerce in our community.
That’s no longer the case, of course. More
Inspired by Mark Hurst’s book, Bit Literacy, I tracked down the author and engaged him the way he suggests we all engage the various bit streams that inundate us with information every day: head-on and purposefully.
Here’s how it went down…
Curt: Where did the idea for the book come from?
Mark: Everyone’s going to end up with a lot of information in the workplace today. How are they going to react to that? What skills are they going to bring to bear to manage that information? More
I once worked for a company that installed a new email server every time the volume of messages in the system got too high for the old server to handle. More
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