Closing the Loop (eBook)

Systems Thinking for Designers

Sheryl Cababa (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
280 Seiten
Rosenfeld Media (Verlag)
978-1-959029-87-8 (ISBN)

Infos

As design continues to impact our products, services, and solutions at scale, it is more important than ever to understand the systems and context that surround design decisions. Closing the Loop will introduce you to a powerful systems thinking mindset and provide you with the tools and frameworks to define the systems that surround your work. Cababa's book comes at a crucial moment for design, and points the way toward a more inclusive, meaningful future for our work. David Dylan Thomas, author, Design for Cognitive BiasWho Should Read This Book?This book is for practitioners who want to incorporate systemsthinking methods into their practice. Design researchers, strategists, and experience designers will benefit from the book's tools and instruction to broaden their perspectives, as well as people from technology, healthcare, education, and other spaces in which humancentered design is incorporated.TakeawaysReaders will learn to: Combine usercentered design with systems thinking to understand interconnections and interventions to create goals that benefit society.Expand their thinking about what constitutes problemsolving in order to reframe problem spaces. Map the status quo in order to better envision the future.Kick off primary research by conducting interviews with subject matter experts.Use stakeholder maps as a form of analysis and synthesis output.Create a causal loop map to articulate systems forces in the form of cause and effect. Develop a theory of change to plan initiatives that will lead to the desired outcomes and impact. Use the futures wheel as a tool to imagine the impact of decisions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2023
• Vorwort: Kevin Bethune
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Schlagworte: addictive technology • bad actors • Cascading • cascading effects • casual loops • Causality • causal loops • challenge mapping • circularity • cultural probe • cyclical • cyclical thinking • deep structure • Design • designer privilege • design thinking • Ecological • ecological framework • Experience Design • Feedback • Feedback Loops • futures cone • futures thinking • futures wheel • Futuring • happy path • Ideation sessions • individual impact • interpretive engagement • journey • liberatory • liberatory design • linear maps • Linear thinking • Logic model • mapping initiatives • Nodes • opportunity ideation • participative principle • Participatory Design • pluriversal • pluriversal design • radiating effects • reflective practice • Root Cause • root cause analysis • root cause maps • Scenario Planning • service blueprints • Service Design • Service Experience • soft systems-thinking • speculative • Speculative Design • Stakeholder Mapping • STEEP framework • stock and flow diagrams • Symbiotic Relationships • synthesis • System Archetypes • Systems Design • system spotting • systems thinking • Techno-Optimism • temporal storytelling • Unintended Consequences • User-Centered Design • user-centered harm • User centered harm • User Experience • user journey maps • UX
• ISBN-10: 1-959029-87-8 / 1959029878
• ISBN-13: 978-1-959029-87-8 / 9781959029878