An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan ...

It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that ...

Since she began work as co-director of Smith’s Design Thinking Initiative earlier this fall, Zaza Kabayadondo has been fielding numerous questions about the program from interested students, faculty ...

Design thinking -- creative problem-solving that focuses on addressing the needs of users -- is a technique I've used to improve overall company results and customer satisfaction. After all, ...

COVID-19 and the pandemic have taught us many new lessons about the workforce, productivity and work/life balance. As we enter the second year of the pandemic, many businesses have still not fully ...

The Build a Better Book project emphasizes a human-centered design thinking approach, in which participants first need to better understand the specific needs of their end users. The Design Thinking ...

Everywhere you turn nowadays, people bring up design thinking as the panacea to invite customer experiences into the game. The 2017 EY report “Demystifying design thinking: becoming part of the ...

It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how ...