Military Design Thinking
3 posts tagged with “Military Design Thinking”
Weeknotes
States Not Stages: On Process Reification, Cybernetic Traditions, and the Construction of State Spaces
Jaimes Nel published a post this week - "From GPS to Map & Compass" - proposing what he calls the IO Loop: a model of design and innovation that replaces linear stages with recursive loops between...
Forward Deployed Design
Last week I was asked to scope what it would take to build a React component library for a national healthcare data platform. As I've been writing the scoping document, I keep returning to a tension...
Research Updates
The Compass Unpacked: Seven Accounts of Evaluative Capacity in Design
The previous post explored why design process becomes what Jaimes Nel (2026) calls GPS. Nel's argument is that models like the Double Diamond, originally intended as orientational maps, hardened into...