Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design | Video on TED.com

Mar­i­an Ban­t­jes: Intri­cate beau­ty by design | Video on TED.com In this video, Mar­i­an Ban­t­jes explains how she built her career by throw­ing her indi­vid­u­al­i­ty into projects – some­thing few design­ers get the chance to do on a reg­u­lar basis.

Design Thinking: A Solution to Fracture-Critical Systems

This inter­view with Tom Fish­er, Dean, Col­lege of Design at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta, dis­cuss­es the val­ue of design think­ing in solv­ing many prob­lems with “frac­ture-crit­i­cal sys­tems” that we have seen recent­ly as well as the increas­ing impor­tance of a design edu­ca­tion.

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This blog is a place for me (Gretchen Chern) to gath­er all the arti­cles, videos, inter­views, books etc. that I find inspir­ing. I’m main­ly doing this for myself, as I am soon ven­tur­ing into the world of design man­age­ment. The process by which I used to gath­er this infor­ma­tion was to email myself inter­est­ing links, […]

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