A bunch of links nabbed from Michael Tiemann's OSI blog

• Getting Schooled In Design
  
• Designing a New OSI
  
• Redhat Magazine - Design Thinking special
  
• Intro to design thinking
  
• Stanford's new d.School
  
• The Empathy Economy
  
• Thinking design: A pencil, a ruler, and a cup of coffee (Part 1,Part 2)
  
• The Power of Design
  
• Better Linux release notes through design thinking
  
• Design Gets Its Due in Davos
  
• Design books that inspire us
  
• The Business of Design

I like this, because the second from last link focusses on design books. 3 of which I already own. Though it would be good to read the other 7 probably.

It also matches with the way I tend to manage development in Kamaelia's SVN - it's set up to encourage a high diversity of ideas, large amounts of checkins, and rigourously stable and clean code in releases. Design is crucial in making something new. Taking that design and moving it to engineering is just as vital however, and there are some very important steps to bear in mind how that happens. (not least that the skill set can be extremely different and many people need to learn at least one of those sets of skills)