Design Thinking Research Lab

23/04/2018

Just decided to your re-invoke my blog on design-thinking-forward.com
New content coming soon!

18/12/2017

Hi designers, ever thought about your life and happiness?

Design Thinking Research Lab is launching a new study on this exciting topic!
If you are curious, please participate in this survey: https://goo.gl/kvYYUE

It only takes about 10 minutes and you will definitely contribute to new insights on designers' happiness factors.

You will be part of academic research on designers!
A previous paper published this year by the first author has become the most read article in a Top10 academic design journal: Does a persona improve creativity?

Which life perspectives influence designers' happiness? The purpose of this survey is to examine how people in the design field (design students and design professionals) view their life and how this relates to their happiness. Unlike other research studies you never hear back from, you will receive...

24/03/2017

First DDSO Meeting!
On 23 March, the Dead Designers' Society (DDSO) inaugurated by Chaehan So and ShinWoo Kang who generously hosted us at his company ARTISAN.
The purpose is nothing shorter than designing the future of design. We started from my provocational perception that a lot of design in Korea is copied. Why it is. How we can change it. If we will.
If interested, leave a comment and join us on 5 April.

01/03/2017

Please participate in my new research on the perception of design dimensions! http://bit.ly/2mgLvdU
I will give you the research results early on!

Background:
I am a professor of design & market research at Hongik University, Korea's no.1 design school. My research is about creativity and emotion in the design thinking context, and on the psychological perception of design. This aims to contribute to creating the future of design thinking by psychological science.
I will be grateful for every survey response!

This survey is part of Chaehan So's design dimensions research 2017. His goal is to disentangle design into dimensions that people can distinguish psychologically. If this succeeds, feedback on these psychological dimensions could help designers improve their design work in specific ways. The accele...

24/09/2016

A creative use of technology

16/08/2016

Very inspiring walls... Jackson Pollock would have loved this ;-)

11/08/2016

Design thinkers need to learn from kids...
This girl posed spontaneously when I took a photo of the guy made of wax!
University of the Arts London

28/06/2016

Robot shows emotions...