Meetings can be places of creativity where people come together to uncover ideas that couldn’t be uncovered by individuals alone. There is something magical about the energy of a group of people bouncing off of each other and achieving a level of creativity that only a group can. Meetings can…

Everything changes, nothing remains without change. All things are connected so if one things changes, other things change. Organizations are constantly changing. Sometimes small changes, sometimes big ones. Most organizations today are going through some form of digitization, servitization, decentralization, defragmentation, and expansion. These organizations need help with that. Advice. Guidance. Coaching. Design is also changing. Design is expanding from its core of making beautiful things to helping organizations in their transformations. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. The complexity of transformations is urging organizations to seek help in new places. Design is one of those places.

On the one hand this might be too obvious to state. On the other hand, this is a topic around which there might be not enough awareness among designers. I have touched upon this in a previous essay in which I stated that entrepreneurship is the missing link between design…

I saw this post by Andy Budd on Twitter: This nails the current experience of the web smack in the middle of the head. There are so many layers of things I don’t want as a user between me and a website today. We have all experienced it. We have…

There was a seed laying dormant in me that sprouted recently. Years ago, when I was studying art, the American painter Sol LeWitt was one of my favorite artists. He makes very powerful abstract paintings in bright colors. I loved that. That inspired my own paintings. Another cool thing about…

Based on my re-thinking of the dominant hierarchical model in my previous essays in which I questioned what would happen if Maslow was a circle instead of a pyramid and tried to come up with a new model of the design proces that is more integrated and equal, I was…

One year ago, I wrote an essay about the state of design thinking called The end of design thinking as we know it. In it, I philosophized about a shift that I saw happening in design thinking. A shift away from the one-day-bootcamp-anyone-can-do-this-magic-bullet towards a realization that it needs actual…

Sometimes you just need a label to take you to a next level of insight. A label can seem arbitrary but it can also be mind-opening. In the past I had this with the label Design Thinking. That label connected design and business consultancy in me. Two things that had…

My journey into the spiritual showed me that art and design are a great portal into the spiritual. In fact, my journey in art and design has defined what the spiritual is for me. I have also found that the spiritual can enrich my work in design exactly because they feel like a natural extension of each other. — For some years now, I have been deep diving into the spiritual. I can remember the exact moment I first started on this journey. At the time, I was studying engineering and was getting more and frustrated by the rational, scientific view of the world. At the time, I didn’t…