Illustration by Alice Lee. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Iteration What’s the mindsetIteration is the approach of learning through making, and ongoing improvement along the way. It is the mindset that allows us to accept that it’s not realistic to figure everything out perfectly the first time, and that feedback andContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Iteration”
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Interview with a Partner: Haliday Douglas
Illustration by Alice Lee. Learn more about our illustrators. Interview with a Partner: Haliday Douglas Haliday Douglas is a proud son of St. Louis. He commits his professional life to working across St. Louis — currently as the interim President & CEO of the St. Louis Public Schools Foundation and as the Founder & CEO ofContinue reading “Interview with a Partner: Haliday Douglas”
Lessons from Teaching
Illustration by Alice Lee. Learn more about our illustrators. Lessons from Teaching As school bells ring and kids and college students around the country get ready to head back to the classroom, we’ve spent some time reflecting on what we’ve learned from being teachers. Both Annemarie and Liz are lecturers at the Sam Fox School ofContinue reading “Lessons from Teaching”
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Visual Thinking
Illustration by Lorry Jamison. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Visual Thinking What’s the mindsetVisual thinking is about creating images or other mock-ups that represent the current or imagined world and help us make sense of it and communicate it. Visual thinking can be as simple as a stick-figure sketch on aContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Visual Thinking”
Reevaluating Criteria for Decision Making
Illustration by Lorry Jamison. Learn more about our illustrators. Reevaluating Criteria for Decision Making Any design process involves making a series of intentional choices: which opportunity to address, which idea to prototype, which prototype to iterate, which features to prioritize, and which prototype to develop into a pilot are just a few of the choices alongContinue reading “Reevaluating Criteria for Decision Making”
Virtual Facilitation: The Human-Centered Design Way
Illustration by Lorry Jamison. Learn more about our illustrators. Virtual Facilitation: The Human-Centered Design Way We love teaching workshops on facilitation: the process of facilitating (inviting, planning, steering, and reflecting) a group of people to come together and make decisions and progress is at the core of our work. There’s a lot we could say aboutContinue reading “Virtual Facilitation: The Human-Centered Design Way”
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing (Small) Failure
Illustration by Camryn Cogshell. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing (Small) Failure What’s the mindsetEmbracing (small) failure is treating an unexpected or undesired response as an opportunity to learn and adjust. It’s a mindset that pairs with a process of managed risk taking where each risk is small enough to limitContinue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Embracing (Small) Failure”
What’s it like to work with Public Design Bureau? An interview with a partner
Illustration by Camryn Cogshell. Learn more about our illustrators. What’s it like to work with Public Design Bureau? An interview with a partner One of our favorite ways to work is as the “people” partner – collaborating with teams of designers, planners, and other experts and helping them learn from and incorporate wisdom of people withContinue reading “What’s it like to work with Public Design Bureau? An interview with a partner”
Packing the backpack: taking lessons learned on to a new adventure
Illustration by Camryn Cogshell. Learn more about our illustrators. Packing the backpack: taking lessons learned on to a new adventure Liz here! I’m excited to share about a big transition in my life (and the life of Public Design Bureau): early next month, I will leave my role as the Associate Director (and founder) of theContinue reading “Packing the backpack: taking lessons learned on to a new adventure”
Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Optimism
Illustration by Tay Tuteur. Learn more about our illustrators. Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Optimism What’s the mindset Optimism is the attitude that things can be better than they currently are, and that change is possible Why it’s important For us, design is the intentional process of making things better than they were before — ideally, more sustainable,Continue reading “Mindsets of Public Design Bureau: Optimism”
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