I believe there is a fundamental disconnect between the way designers and business people think. A disconnect that causes a huge amount of personal dissatisfaction. Let me try and explain...
Every other week or so I find myself standing around not wearing a tie, and drawing an awe-inspiring upwards arch with my luminescent index finger. This is what people working in Strategy do for a living. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob
One year ago today Hans Rosling died.
To remember him I want to share some links in this thread.
Of the many talks he gave, ’The magic washing machine’ is my favorite.
The quote explains the magic of the machine – laundry in, books out.
Here is his talk
ted.com/talks/hans_ros…
204 Followers 434 FollowingI ramble about usability, user research, photography and judaism... and once in a while about music and amazing love-relationship advice...
697 Followers 179 FollowingVertippsuppenweltmeister. Credo: Wenn sich der Wille der absoluten Freiheit verschreibt, ist der Vergewaltigung Tür und Tor geöffnet.
879 Followers 898 FollowingVincit omnia veritas. Das Wahre. Schöne. Gute. Wissenschaft, Aufklärung, Freiheit. Libertär. Keine Parteien, mehr Sachverstand. Zynisch, aber optimistisch.
753 Followers 2K FollowingAsyl für Worte und gute Geschichten Achtung: Wir gendern nicht, sind aber für die freie Selbstbestimmung und die Gleichberechtigung.
303 Followers 3K FollowingDer fundamentale Akt der Freiheit ist der des Verzichtes auf Unterjochung eines Unterjochbaren, der Akt des »Seinlassens«. — Robert Spaemann
4K Followers 2K Following#GDPR-damaged: took part in lawmaking process & going nuts ever since. #Photography & #Leica. Freedom of expression. Science. Visualisations and more.
406 Followers 4K FollowingEinst sollten Bots von Menschen als Menschen identifiziert werden. Nun identifizieren Bots Menschen, Menschen tarnen sich als Bots, um unter AI-Herrschaft zu ü
17K Followers 7K FollowingPunainen Risti ylläpitää elämää ja terveyttä, puolustaa inhimillisyyttä ja pitää huolta kaikkein heikoimmista kriisien keskellä. #PunainenRisti
440 Followers 2K FollowingRaum für schriftliche Mitteilungen. „Unser Wissen kann nur endlich sein, während unser Nichtwissen notwendigerweise unendlich sein muss.“ Sir Karl R. Popper
137 Followers 579 FollowingThe ultimate competitive advantage in digital commerce is delivering optimum customer experiences; detecting and adapting to visitor preferences in real-time.
414 Followers 416 FollowingAn analytics, online marketing, and philosophy enthusiast. Partner in @QuruFM, the European pioneer in online marketing measurement. English and Finnish.
162 Followers 454 FollowingBorn in Palma de Mallorca, Living in Germany since 1984, Engineer, Project Manager and Journalist
Director of Development DACH IESE Business School Munich
1K Followers 139 FollowingTrendforscher, Professor für Kommunikationsdesign an der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen. Buch-Autor und Referent zu Themen des gesellschaftlichen Wandels
518 Followers 5K FollowingFreelance Technical Artist & 3D Web Developer. #archviz & #indiegamedev using #UE4, #Houdini, #Blender, & #SketchUp for desktop, #VR, #XR, & #WebXR
177K Followers 808 FollowingBest-selling author of "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class" | Senior Fellow, @ManhattanInst | All Views My Own
1K Followers 500 FollowingHusband to @sinipitkanen, father of two boys. Strategy Director at Reaktor Creative part of @ReaktorNow. Tweets in Eng and Fin.
3K Followers 1K FollowingCommunications consultant, writer, speaker, all-round media enthusiast, co-author of Viherpesuopas ("Greenwashing Guide"), out May 16
276K Followers 1K FollowingData to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
1.1M Followers 2K FollowingFlaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life),Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine.Canaan. #RWRI
6K Followers 1K FollowingProfessor and Co-Chair of the Behavioral Decision-Making Group, UCLA Anderson School of Management, co-author of Save More Tomorrow
1K Followers 927 FollowingYour digital analytics and consumer data governance partners. Authors of "Crawl, Walk, Run: Becoming a Privacy-Centric Marketing Organization."
39K Followers 40 FollowingWhere would our literary culture be without @wtfrenaissance? - New York Times. Parody masterpieces - HuffPo. Written by @angemaryclaire
1.1M Followers 120 FollowingEuropean of German nationality, @ESA astronaut, geophysicist, volcanologist, explorer. Lived one year in space where he served as Commander of ISS Expedition 57
106 Followers 53 FollowingWir alle sind Akteure in der Welt von Wirtschaft und Kapital - und wir haben die Wahl: Wir können sehr wohl einen Kapitalismus gestalten, der uns gerecht wird.
145K Followers 230 FollowingWirtschaft verstehen. Neues erschaffen. Selbstbestimmt leben.
brand eins – Zeigen, was möglich ist.
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70K Followers 1K FollowingDesign/Product Advisor, Investor & Coach. Venture Partner @Seedcamp. I help startups hit 1M+ ARR and Design/Product leaders excel in their careers 🚀 He/Him
21K Followers 3K FollowingWe are Clearleft – strategic design partners.
Proud to be #EmployeeOwned 🫶
https://t.co/QUDeNWxshE
Also @LDConf @UXLondon @UXLJobsBoard
98K Followers 510 FollowingCurrently playing the part of Sir Not-Appearing-On-This-Website. Should you be interested, you can find me at @[email protected].
2K Followers 3K FollowingDigital magic man and information junkie. Increasing UX, removing friction, and automating the analog world with Data and AI. #AI #ML #datadriven