Open IDEO

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Open IDEO is a co-design platform for people to design and work together for social good. You can sing in and participant into IDEO’s design challenges activities. The challenge activity focuses on particular problems for social good. The challenge activities provide good opportunities for you to practise and apply design management theories and knowledge that you gain from the course to improve current and emerging social problems. The current challenge is: 

How might we inspire and enable communities to take more initiative in making their local environments better?

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

Listen to colour - a new way of communication

Neil Harbission is an artist who was born completely colour blind. He and his colleagues designed a device which allowed him to listen to colour by converting colour information into music. The video shows Neil’s presentation of his idea of listening to colour at TED. It demonstrates a new way of communication.

In the design industry, designers always work in a multidisciplinary team with colleagues who come from different areas and speak different ‘languages’ such as engineering language, marketing language, design language and business language. In design management, we need think about how can we understand people from other disciplines and translate those diverse ‘languages’ into an inclusive design language that can be understood by people with various professional backgrounds. Also, in the market, customers have different ways to communicate with a brand and express their perceptions of and expectations to the brand. We also need to learn the customers’ languages so as to establish an effective communication channel with them.

I hope this video will give you some insights of the ‘ new ways of communication’.