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Tim Brown, the CEO of product design firm IDEO, hosted a MLab Experimentation Jam today.

“The fastest way to learn is to build it. We build to think. We prototype to learn.”

while in a focus group with surgeons, they grabbed what they could and cobbled together a prototype… and quickly learned what would be cumbersome and what would work for a nasal router of sorts.

“Management often picks from a set of choices. In design, we try to create choices.”

“How can we look out at the world for inspiration, not answers?”

Role Play. Improv.

Side survey: 70% Macs and 60% “non right-handed” people at IDEO.

Gary Hamel, on right, opened with “stupidity is contagious.”

5 responses to “Build to Think”

  1. So cool that you can share all this with us! Rockets and hikes are nice, but this is the kind of stuff I look forward to.

  2. that’s fascinating… according to wikipedia, 90% to 93% of the adult population is right-handed…. (only 7 to 10 percent lefties)… but at IDEO….wow!
    something statistical going on here, eh?

  3. Now that’s practical advice. I agree with AshwinK, this stuff is great. Thanks.

  4. macs and nasal routers….
    hmph.
    felt like i had my nasal passages routed when my quad g5 died officially last night, leaving my studio horribly wounded. (given: a RARE failure of mac hardware…and btw…good time to buy their stock if you have any coin)
    😛
    otherwise: what was your role in the ideo-brain-amalgamation?

  5. Personally, I understand this since I usually hate to use what already exists and prefer (or would prefer) to create an original idea that comes from my own imagine and needs. It is not always possible but that is my reflex.

    I am right-handed, I use a PC (Dell laptop) but I dream of having a Mac one day.

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