Jessica Lillico

Innovation is about moving from the status quo to a new and better future. Coming up with a new idea can be very difficult. More often than not we will come up with novel ideas; ideas that come from another place and time that we can apply to our new context. The best ideas have enduring value and that’s why innovation focusses on lasting and expon... See more

Reframing Problems

Reframe a problem when you get stuck to help you move forward in the process. Avoid the “woe me” framework and keep working at it. Don’t worry about having all the answers just yet.

Bias Toward Action

This mindset means that you are more focused on action than thinking. Instead of talking about an idea, you will take that idea and turn it into reality. By doing, we learn so much more about the process and how to improve it in the future.

Learn from Failure

This mindset is all about the ability to learn from failure and use failure as a tool to improve your practices. As Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO explains, “Don’t think of it as failure, think of it as designing experiments through which you’re going to learn.” Design begins with not knowing the solution to a challenge. Instead of being... See more

Craft Clarity

Take away all the clutter and explain your idea clearly and simply. Have a vision that others can understand quickly and that can inspire action.

We often talk about design as an end product or a noun. However, design thinking goes beyond the traditional world of products and objects to look at design as a verb, that is, a process, and a way of thinking.

For Issac, his photographic vision has a filmic lens. “I love vintage things, especially 90s Hong Kong culture which produced so many good movies. It’s a very influential era for the rest of Asia as it saw the likes of Faye Wong, Tat Ming Pair, Four Heavenly Kings , Wong Kar Wai films, Stephen Chow movies.” All in all, the photographer wants to “pr... See more

Here's what I'm starting to realize: maybe our homes aren't meant to be a perfect mirror of who we are right now . Maybe they're more like journals—capturing pieces of us at different points in time—layers of our experiences, our values, and the people we love, all woven together into something that's still unfolding.

It's a deep insecurity of mine that my home doesn't feel like an actual portal into the depths of my soul. Facilitating authentic design is, after all, what I do for a living.