Adrian Wiggins

Experience Design Leader for @ArupAustralasia + @arupgroup / Collaboration, UX and agile for socially useful work, sustainability & impact. Mr @verdantflaneur

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@z_rose @camerontw This new release from Cara Wrigley and Genevieve Mosely could be worth a look too @z_rose for the p7 table of design thinking history.

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@z_rose @ideo @IDEOU @IDEOresearch @z_rose and there’s more here on who was behind the model https://t.co/TZuOAh1RFs

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@z_rose @ideo @IDEOU @IDEOresearch That’s the Stanford d school model. Could be worth a look in their bootleg original about hexagons. https://t.co/y4t6KCJkxx

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@poisontofu If we could but see ourselves as AI sees us…

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Yesterday, in a call with UX skills network colleagues at @ArupGroup, it was suggested we need a new way to look at the fabled #doublediamond – which is to see it as the Double Neil Diamond.

So I'm just going to leave this hasty edit here and see what y’all think...

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So looking forward to hearing @RebeccaHuntley2 on the #sustainability challenges of our time. Get in quick for tix online at @austmus

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The Talbot Oration is back for 2022 & this year will be about inspiring visions for a climate solution 🌿

Join us & guest speaker, @RebeccaHuntley2 for an engaging evening on Thursday 2nd June. The event is FREE but registrations essential.

Book here: https://t.co/cdne2xbc8E

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A field note observation for those who design end-of-trip facilities #eotf. Electric bikes are heavy. You can’t just lift and hang them up. And you do want a power outlet for charging.

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@interacting A timely q. As a designer, choose positive impact. Work on a product, asset or problem that will
- create social value
- address a @UN #SDG
- decarbonise the economy
- value natural capital
- protect human rights
- create justice, equity & inclusion
All else is extraction.

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@daveixd When the ramp isn't placed near the stairs.

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@interacting Without justice, equity, diversity and inclusion #jedi, human-centred design could just be about maximising value extraction, right?

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@interacting Design is often funded by, and for, the richest 20% who have 90% of the worlds wealth. Surely a fifth principle of humanity-centred design would be equity and justice?

[❤️ @umairh]

"20% of the world — the West — consumes 90% of its resources. Leaving just 10% for everyone else on the planet, which is 80% of human beings. But guess what else? The resources mostly belong to that 80% to begin with."https://t.co/hB1xyerdR5

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Far out! Is this where we’re headed? I worry we’re not far behind this data in Sydney. Via @EdwardTufte #covid

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@shreyas @adele_bloch In companies, acting alone, a rationale will probably suffice. In publicly funded context though frameworks are essential for transparency. Judgment without transparency and frameworks provides a cover for corruption. The public should expect a framework for their money.

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@shreyas Catchy. Counterpoint: A fireplace cannot replace a good yarn, but a bad yarn desperately needs a fire to burn in. (Yarn 🧶 is an Australian reference).

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@jessmcmullin @drstefdirusso @j_rehm The firm I work for now is mostly known for engineering (buildings, rail systems, roads, city plans, water, energy etc a long list). Engineers daily refer to their work as design. Design = engineering. Which invalidated some of the ideas I had, coming from digital product.

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@drstefdirusso Oh I can agree with the architecture comment. But I see also UX practitioners give sometimes scant regard to historic design disciplines hcd skills. To choose one thing: UX design research practices foreshadowed by 60s-70s observational urban design (eg Wm Whyte).

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@drstefdirusso What’s worked well has been focusing on complementing the other design disciplines involved, respectfully adding what I bring to what they already have. In that way I get to learn about what others do, and don’t need to be expert.

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@drstefdirusso My answer is yes, but that’s after 20 years focusing on digital products. At @ArupGroup since 2018 is I work across planning, design and engineering of buildings, cities, places, rail, bus, cycling, water and energy. The design thinking frameworks & practices are all relevant.

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@propinqua The internet beckons…

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@poisontofu @jonathontoon Sketch is the last desktop software I fell in love with @poisontofu. Axure before that. But it’s Omnigraffle that broke my heart by not going online years ago.