It’s Nice That is a talented team of publishing inspiring work from across the creative sphere. They run a monthly talk, each event hosted by a guest speaker who brings two friends to showcase recent projects or thoughts.

Fred Collopy has published a post on Fast Company discussing the similiarities of the emerging design thinking discourse and that of systems thinking, a management-based holistic discourse with resonances in complexity theory.

A special report in The Economist likens the growing patient empowerment movement to the way the Reformation opened the Church to greater involvement in the 16th century.

Nick Marsh has posted a response to my post about the differences between questions and answers research.

As Microsoft give the BBC a tour around their Future Home, CNet’s Rupert Goodwins asks how such research contributes to Microsoft’s bottom line.

The embrace of participant observation by the design community has provided a source of tension between the disciplines that traditionally engaged in it and the new disciplines adapting it to their uses.

This talk by Jeff Veen maps out some of the key challenges facing designers creating interaces to complex data.