Adding System Awareness to System Design to Your Innovation Stack with Julie Guinn — DT101 E43

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julie Guinn combines design, research, strategy, and systems thinking to help teams build innovation capabilities, solve complex business challenges and deliver delightful, intuitive product experiences. We discuss systems awareness, leading design work inside complex systems, and ways to pull system awareness and system design into your innovation efforts. Show host: Dawan Stanford.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Summary</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julie defines the differences between systems and complex adaptive systems, and how the many elements that are highly interconnected in complex adaptive systems create complexity and how that impacts the way you approach the design process. She talks about her first foray into designing for healthcare, and how she quickly discovered that none of the typical tools in a design thinker’s toolkit were working. Her discovering </span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Designing for Care</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">by Peter Jones started her on the path of learning about systems and system-centered design, which led to a whole new skillset and toolbox of methods specifically geared towards designing systems and designing inside systems. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She discusses the unique challenges of designing for systems and how multiple phases and iterations are key when implementing change in complex adaptive systems. She also talks about some clients that were more challenging when it came to design implementation, and how some companies weren’t ready for design, and what she did to overcome these challenges.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julie talks about how to be intentional when building a plan for convening and facilitating systems design experiences, and why you should think differently when you plan projects, especially when considering how much time each step will take.</span></p> <p><strong>Listen in to learn:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400