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We blog to share our story about Working Together, Interweaving, and Modern Work-oriented Architecting. By sharing we can inform and encourage discussions and collaborations on the Interweaved world, we all belong to.

interweaved Design Diamond (1) - The Start

Diamond (DDD) is started as introduced in "What If We Redesign The (Double) Design Diamond To Become Interweaved?" What if we redesign the Design Diamond? The goal is to create new knowledge and explore how essential aspects of Design can be represented in a diamond form. The resulting interweaved Design Diamond (iDD) provides an explanatory schema...

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Boost your designs with the Affordance Canvas

Power up your designs using the Affordance Canvas to make the most of the possibilities in the age of crisis and Corona. The Affordance Canvas results from the effort to enrich design thinking using Interweaving. How:- After the team has formulated a problem point-of-view and found a solution, the team turns around and explores the affordance of th...

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Design Thinking - is that all?

A debate is raging about whether design thinking is the same as design. A quick overview of the field reveals quite a few popular design and service thinking approaches that, to a degree, are similar. They all present a graphical overview of a simple method with 5-8 steps, including problem-finding and solution creation. But is that all there is? I...

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Is Design a process or moves

There is an interesting relationship between design and dance. In dance, beginners start out by learning basic patterns. Just as is the case with design thinking and service design, where the simple and appealing 5, 6 or 7-step processes from books, universities and famous companies lure participants into enjoying design. Both beginner dancers and ...

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Tool of the trade - Talking Point Canvas

A Talking Point Canvas is 1-page communication tool that has talking points for communication. The canvas organise talking points in illustrations, diagrams or boxes and they fit on an A5 to A2 paper, Powerpoint page, or a web page.

The purpose is typically to organise and focus communications, discussions and deliberations on a particular topic consisting of several talking points and dimensions.

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NEO Generalist

The book "The NEO-Generalist" is a fascinating read, with a surprising connection to Interweaving. It turns out that neo-generalists would make excellent Interweavers with their mindsets. A few examples quotes from the book "The NEO-Generalist", by Kenneth Mikkelsen, Richard Martin, 2016, to illustrates the point. "A neo-generalist is a serial spec...

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