smallfire: design strategy

Over the last few years I’ve experienced a real change in the kinds of design services that might be needed by, or offered to, clients – especially working in the not for profit and community sectors. As we all know, more and more organisations are beginning to see the potential for social technologies to engage [...]

I tried to respond to this thread http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=42131 on the Ixda list with the following comment, but I got an error (to long I guess!). So just thought I would put it here instead. The question was about whether design could be research, and unsurprisingly the range of responses on Ixda and the Phd Design [...]