Comments on: Is Process Hurting Innovation?

By: Jeff Parks

Jeff Parks — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:30:47 +0000

My pleasure. Another blog post I wrote a while back may be of interest

http://jeffparks.ca/index.php/findability/this-is-your-brain-on-coke/

Links to information on Epigenetics as well as my conversation at the MX conference put on by Adaptive Path with Björn Harttman who is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction at Stanford University and Editor-in-Chief of Ambidextrous magazine provided.

Cheers,
Jeff

By: Chick Foxgrover

Chick Foxgrover — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:47:38 +0000

I think you are absolutely right. Nooteboom gave a talk about this subject at a conference about economics and embodied cognition where they brought together the ideas of John Dewey, Hayek (his “Sensory Order”) with economists and cognitive theorists like Gerald Edelman. They were primarily interested at the time in behavioral economic theories but this domain of thought has profound implications for interactive design.

Thanks for the recommendation, I look forward to following up on that!

By: Jeff Parks

Jeff Parks — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:33:01 +0000

Interesting how they found inspiration for the framework from the work of Jean Piaget, and I can see why. Piaget outlined four stages of child development including Sensorimotor, Peroperational, Concrete, and Formal. Each of which could be used as a metaphor in how we cycle through experiences to learn and subsequently innovate as adults.

I think what they are describing in the link you provided is a paradigm shift. The experiences in our life determine our perspective. That perspective in turn shapes our individual reality (the way we perceive the world, approach problems, etc).

As adults we learn best if we can experience the lesson first hand and if the information being presented is of immediate value.

Another work you might be interested in is that of Adult Learning theorist David A. Kolb http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm

Regardless of the theory, I think all UX professionals should take time to study the basics of cognitive and behavioral psychology. Through a better understanding of how / why people learn we can create better solutions for all.

By: Chick Foxgrover

Chick Foxgrover — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:05:38 +0000

You might also be interested in the literature on innovation like Bart Nooteboom’s “Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies” To summarize (badly perhaps) his “Cycle of discovery” includes periods of experimentation then application of the efficiencies of a resulting generalizations and process and then cycling back towards experimentation and discovery. http://bit.ly/RfSSz