mayo clinic's SPARC approach

I liked this approach by mayo clinic's SPARC program. it's a great acronym that resonates well with how i think about the design process, just way more eloquently phrased.

SPARC = see, plan, act, refine, and communicate
it's meant to remind participants of the design-oriented methodology so they'll continue to employ it when they return to their departments.

A Prescription for Innovation, FastCompany article
SPARC program website

design synthesis by Jon Kolko

just heard a lightning round talk on Interaction Design Synthesis: Translating Research into Insight, by Jon Kolko at the IxDA conference, interaction 09.

jon had a definition i really liked of design synthesis, with every word in it to essential to the definition:

design synthesis is an abductive sensmaking process of manipulating, organizing, pruning and filtering data in an effort to produce information and knowledge

jon's website: http://www.jonkolko.com/