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Hello!! After a taking a few months to ‘recharge, reflect, retool, and reboot…’ I'm back! Beginning with this issue, there are a few changes: 1/ A new name! “Friday Finds” are now “Thinking Things” (The Mighty Minds Club Newsletter). Yes, more alliteration. 2/ A new frequency: I’ll
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dashingDev Card Deck I'm not a developer, but… maybe the dashingDev Card Deck would help me understand more programming concepts, without having to learn the syntax of any specific language. 🤪 dashingDev is a card deck designed to inspire, improve and remind developers. Each card summarizes a core concept
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Regenerative Design Field Kit Remember that “Obliquiscope” I shared a few weeks back? Yeah, it's now available for purchase from John V Willshire as part of a complete regenerative design field kit: In this field kit, the viewer is accompanied by a set of 40 question cards, created
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LEGO How We Create Inspiration Deck Another card deck! Essentially, 78 “quotes + building prompts to spark creativity” crowdsourced from LEGO employees. Chronicle blasted four questions out to Lego employees not just in Billund, but also to every corner of the brand’s ecosystem around the world: What motivates you to
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It’s… and odd assortment of things, this week. 🤪 A twist on the periodic table of elements Ooh. A new twist on the period table of elements—based on their galactic origins! Montessori architectural patterns Two things I love, together: Architecture + Montessori. Montessori Architecture lists principles for designing school buildings
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The Seven Meetings You Hate You might have seen a pattern from me: Whenever someone has done to work to identify and classify some topic, I sense that we're well on the way toward turning that complex topic into a game, of sorts. Ideas have been organized. Labels
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Inspiration Wild Cards By way of a Cardstock discussion about ‘cards that make use of both sides,’ I think it was Matt Ballantine who shared the Inspiration Wild Cards, a set of 50 cards in 5 categories (super forces, fiction laws, super heroes, stereotypes and nightmare) designed to stimulate creativity.
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It’s been a busy week at the Anderson household, as we celebrated multiple birthdays 🎂 this week (including my own!), but… I still managed to accumulate a mass of really interesting stuff I wanted to share with y’all. Enjoy! “The Privilege of Play” I enjoyed this is essay on
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Skill trees In a previous Friday Finds (April 21), I posted about a Skill Tree for 3D Printing & Modeling. Self explanatory. I love skill trees (in board games, video games, Kahn academy, and elsewhere) as a way to think about the micro skills that build upon each other…without
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Speculative cartography Ok. Here's an odd (and clever!) kind of ‘thing to think with’—speculative cartography. Specifically, maps of a future earth, after sea levels rise. Pictured below is the “famous 1748 Nolli map of Rome, with 66m of sea level rise.” See dozens more similar prints at
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Caregiving 101 I love the interplay between the cards and journal in this Caregiving 101 design project (check out the concept video!). Caregiving101 is a caregiving toolkit seeking to facilitate conversations between caregivers. The system of tools within Caregiving101 is built upon the foundations of Solomon’s Paradox - that
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Challenge & opportunity cards These Challenge & Opportunity Cards can be “used to identify and map challenges and opportunities when adopting design in the public sector.” Free download. Have fun cutting out all these hexagons. 😳 While you're there, check out the other methods and tools from Service Design