Tim Brown Quotes

#1. Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy

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#2. Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.

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#3. Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

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#4. We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.

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#5. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

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#6. Design is all about learning from doing, that's how we evolve to the best solution.

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#7. It's critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

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#8. Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

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#9. Build bridges of insight through empathy, see the world through the eyes of others, understand the world through their experiences, and feel the world through their emotions.

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#10. Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

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#11. Other case studies demonstrate that brainstorming is as essential to creativity as exercise is to a healthy heart.

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#12. It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

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#13. Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

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#14. We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

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#15. At IDEO we have dedicated rooms for our brainstorming sessions, and the rules are literally written on the walls: Defer judgment. Encourage wild ideas. Stay focused on the topic. The most important of them, I would argue, is "Build on the ideas of others.

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#16. Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning.

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#17. For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

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#18. Rather than thinking to build, build to think.

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