Publications — A selection of book chapters, lectures, podcasts, interviews, essays, and professional articles.

Philipp Thesen: Design as a Principal Slanted 37 – AI

Philipp Thesen: Design as a Principal Lesung auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse

Philipp Thesen: Design as a Principal Philipp Thesen bei Medium

Philipp Thesen: Design as a Principal Impact Magazin

Philipp Thesen: Design as a Principal Philipp Thesen: Design ist universell

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Slanted Magazine #37

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a much-discussed topic of our time. Issue 37 of Slanted is dedicated to the debate around AI technology, machine and deep learning and its impact. I contributed two articles dealing with the impact of AI on the living and working world of the future (p. 24 f) and the new role of design (p. 256 f.) Release in May.

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Frankfurt Book Fair

As part of the Design Talk series at the world's largest book fair, I read from my book "The Digital Shift." A collection of essays, case studies and practical guidelines on how to use AI to transform organisations and empower individuals. Read more details or enjoy the session at SoundCloud.

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Humans and machines

Madrid-based UX-researcher María José Téllez spoke with me about humans and machines. Published at Medium.

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Technology with empathy

Impact, the magazine for applied sciences and design, featured my teachings at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.

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Design is universal

Why our creativity has not been used to create the shape of things for some time now and what is the future of design industry? I talked about this in an interview with Nina Kirst for the magazine PAGE.

Selected publications

Thesen, Philipp; Von Reventlow, Christian 
»The Digital Shift«  
1. Auflage, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2019 (136 Seiten)
SBN 978-3-95829-580-3

Thesen, Philipp 
»Futuring Human Mobility« (Buchbeitrag)
Näder, Hans Georg (Autor)
1. Auflage, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2019 (264 Seiten)
ISBN 978-3-95829-636-7

Thesen, Philipp; Von Reventlow, Christian (Hrsg.)
»More Fiction for Science!«
Haas, Matthias; Le Blanc, Thomas; Thesen, Philipp; von Reventlow, Christian (Autoren); 1. Auflage, Bonn, Eigenverlag Deutsche Telekom, 2018 (103 Seiten)

Thesen, Philipp; Schilling, Ole 
»This is Service Design Doing« (Buchbeitrag) 
Stickdorn, Marc; Hormess, Markus; Lawrence, Adam; Schneider, Jakob (Autoren)
O’Reilly Verlag, Newton, Massachusetts, 2017 (541 Seiten)
ISBN 978-1491927182

Thesen, Philipp; Von Reventlow, Christian (Hrsg.)
»Design Thinking Doing«
Hennigs, Lennart; Hundhausen, Nina, Tsokis, Vasilios; u.a. (Autoren)
2. Auflage, Bonn, Eigenverlag Deutsche Telekom, 2017 (69 Seiten)
ISBN 978-3-00-058161-8

Lockwood, Thomas und Papke, Edgar
»Innovation by Design« (Interview)
1. Auflage, Wayne (USA), Career Press, 2017 (224 Seiten)
ISBN 978-1632651167

Selected articles

»Introduction - Reflections on artificial intelligence:
Impacts on business and society«
In: Slanted Issue #37 – ai (S. 24 f.)
1. Auflage, Karlsruhe, Slanted Publishers, 2021
ISSN: 1867-6510

»The new role of design«
In: Slanted Issue #37 – ai (S. 256 f.)
1. Auflage, Karlsruhe, Slanted Publishers, 2021
ISSN: 1867-6510

»Bitte mit System!«
Thesen, Philipp; in: PAGE 09/2019 (P. 108 - 110)

»Digital Transformation in Design«
Thesen, Philipp; in: »Transforming Industrial Design«,
Design Center Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.) 08/2019 (P. 36 - 43)

»Analog und Digital«
Thesen, Philipp; in: md magazine 08/2019 (P. 20 - 24)

»Die Kunst, Design zu steuern«
Thesen, Philipp; in: designreport 02/2019 (P. 18 - 19)

»Können Roboter morden«
Thesen, Philipp; in: Horizont Online, 2018

»Design als Mindset«
Thesen, Philipp; in: designreport 1/2017 (P. 62 - 63)

Selected interviews

»El Diseño continuará haciendo de puente entre la tecnología y el mundo real« Interview with Philipp Thesen
María José Téllez; in: Medium 3/2020
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»Persönliches Werkzeug - im Zeichen des Digital Shift«
Metzner, Martina; in: NDION 11/2019

»Weiter denken«,
Interview with Philipp Thesen and Holger Grünwald
Kirst, Nina; in: PAGE 11/2019, P. 103 - 105

»Digital System Design in der Praxis«
Kirst, Nina; in: PAGE Connect: Digital System Design.
1. Auflage, Hamburg, Ebner Verlag, 09/2019 (34 Pages)

»Unsere Kreativität wird schon lange nicht mehr nur dafür gebraucht, Formvarianten herzustellen« Interview with Philipp Thesen
Kirst, Nina; in: PAGE 5/2019 (P. 24 - 25)

»Artificial intelligence must become personal intelligence«
Interview with Philipp Thesen
In: Näder, Hans Georg: Futuring Human Mobility
Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, 2019 (264 Pages)

»Kreative Algorithmen«
Cohrs, Christian; in: Business Punk 1/2019 (P. 72 - 75)

»PI + AI = UX«
Interview with Philipp Thesen and Christian von Reventlow
Schröter, Rolf; in: W&V 1/2019 (P. 36 - 41)

»Design hat die Aufgabe, Technologie beherrschbar zu machen«
Interview with Philipp Thesen — Podcast-Interview
Jacobi, Alex; in: With Love And Data #21, 2018

»Strategisches Design«
Interview with Philipp Thesen and Nico Weckerle
Kirst, Nina; in: PAGE 1/2018 (P. 104 - 106)

»Smart World« Interview with Philipp Thesen
Benitz, Gabriele; in: md magazine 1/2018 (P. 20 - 22)

»Das macht der strategische Designer bei der Deutschen Telekom«.
Kirst, Nina; in PAGE Connect: Strategisches Design. 1. Edition, Hamburg, Ebner Verlag, 09/2017 (34 Pages)

»Another way of thinking«
Interview with Philipp Thesen and Christian Hanke
Krauter, Martin; in: designreport 6/2017 (P. 48 - 52)

»Die Zukunft im Blick«.
Kirst, Nina; in: PAGE 10/2017 (P. 40 - 45)

»Weder Hofnarren noch Zaungäste«
Interview with Philipp Thesen und Heinrich Paravicini
Wurm, Fabian; in: Horizont 39/2017 (P. 28 - 29)

»Datenwolke als Mobile«
Edelmann, Thomas; in: designreport 6/2017 (P. 72)

»Das Design hat die Verantwortung«
Article and interview with Philipp Thesen
Schröter, Rolf; in: W&V 22/2017 (P. 14 - 21)

»Design the difference«
Article and interview with Philipp Thesen
Nolan, Giles; in: The Monocle Forecast 5, 2016 (P. 86 - 89)

»Design as sustainable change process«
Huber, Thomas; in: designreport 5/2016 (P. 81 - 85)

Selected talks

»Design as an organizational competence«
Panel, Digital Business Week 2020 (Hamburg)

»Design und Change« Keynote
Deutscher Marken- und Designkongress (Stuttgart)
German Design Council. 2019

»Humanizing Technologies: KI und Design« reading at the Frankfurt book fair
Design talk #1 (Frankfurt)
German Design Council. 2019

»Digital Transformation in Design« Keynote and workshop
Transforming Industrial Design #3 Work Conference (Stuttgart)
Design Center Baden-Wuerttemberg. 2019

»Welche politische Dimension hat Design?« Panel discussion
»It takes 2 to boogie« (Frankfurt)
Goethe-University Frankfurt. 2018

»Design in the age of AI«  Opening speech
Design Experience Conference (Stuttgart)
Art Directors Club Germany. 2018

»Leading Design« Keynote and workshop
Global Summit 2018 (Amsterdam)
Design at Business. 2018

»Design accelerates velocity« Panel discussion
Design Experience Conference (Stuttgart)
Art Directors Club Germany. 2017

»Design Thinking«  Keynote and workshop
Academy of the German Design Council (Frankfurt)
German Design Council. 2017

»How Digital is blurring the lines« Keynote
Digital Experience Conference (Duesseldorf)
Art Directors Club Germany. 2017

»Product Design and Brand Management« Panel discussion
German Brand Award (Berlin)
German Design Council. 2017

»Design leadership« Keynote
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim (Hildesheim)
Design faculty. 2017

»Design leadership for the digital transformation« Keynote and panel discussion
dmi: nightout Deutsche Telekom Headquarters (Bonn)
The Design Management Institute Boston. 2016

»The Design Value« Panel discussion
Deutsches Eigenkapitalforum (Frankfurt)
German Stock Exchange. 2016

»Upcoming challenges for Design Management« Keynote
Quo Vadis Design Management Konferenz (Lucerne, CH)
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. 2016

»Design as leadership discipline« Keynote
Design Research Design Strategy Conference
#3 (Hamburg). 2016

»Design steps up« Panel discussion
Design Leadership Conference Europe (Amsterdam)
The Design Management Institute Boston. 2016

»Sustainability and Design« Keynote
VDID German Industrial Design Association (Cologne)
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MEDIA COVERAGE

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Digital System Design

PAGE reported in their 11/ 2019 issue about our cooperation between the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and Neugelb Studios. Included in the publication is a report about Digital System Design in practice and an interview about the integration of design in large companies.

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Providing a sense of technical development

An article by Rolf Schröter published in W&V issue 22 of 2017, including an interview about the tension between people and technology and the new role of design. Read the interview here.

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Design as sustainable change process

designreport reports on design at Deutsche Telekom in their issue 1/2017, looking at how it succeeds not only in thinking in terms of technology and infrastructure, but also in building bridges to its customers with design. Read it here.