June 3rd, 2007 by mdSeveral students in Creating Infectious Action (MSE288) at Stanford came up with a very cool way to explain design thinking to others by executing, and documenting by video, a rapid design process. The four students, Mada, Ana, Dot, and Mannan are masters students in the class which I co-teach. They captured a totally authentic look […]
May 23rd, 2007 by mdRecently we had a good discussion of an interesting topic in Creating Infectious Action — a course I co-teach at Stanford. The conversation was about widgets and the unbundling of cool content from the url where it originated. Widgets — small, portable units that are essentially mini-windows onto an application or pieces of content — […]
May 19th, 2007 by mdMy colleagues Bob, Perry, and I went for a week to the Higher College of Technology in UAE to teach a short seminar on Innovation and Product Design to a group of students and executives. It was a long, but really fun trip. The students were about 80% nationals, the remainder from elsewhere in the […]
April 30th, 2007 by mdIn Winter quarter (Jan-Mar), Bob Sutton and I taught a small seminar titled Innovation in Complex Organizations. It was for masters students and we got a mix of engineers, cs, business school, and product design students. It turned out to be a wonderful experience and the students did extraordinary work on the projects (for GM, […]
April 26th, 2007 by mdA group of students in the Creating Infectious Action class I am co-teaching came up with a clever concept. They observed that Firefox penetration among non-geeks, non-technical folks depends heavily on the appeal of extensions and customization of the browser. Fortunately, there’s a ton of great extensions for Firefox. The students cleverly realized that the […]
April 24th, 2007 by mdI am involved in teaching two courses this quarter at Stanford. One is titled Creating Infectious Action which I co-teach with a wonderful group of faculty from academia and industry. It’s essentially a project-based class focused on why ideas or behaviors “spread” in the Gladwell-ian sense, and “stick” in the Heath-ian sense. We are holding […]
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