Design thinking is a classroom strategy that can facilitate 21 st century skills while allowing students to take action on topics they are passionate about says Sanjli Gidwaney, Director, Design for ...

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s ...

Higher education has entered into an era of transition. Changing student demographics, rapidly evolving stakeholder demands, and new technologies are requiring universities to reconsider abiding ...

Design thinking is the creative solution-making process born out of the interconnected worlds of architecture, interior design, and product design. But, it can be applied far beyond design disciplines ...

There’s been a lot of hype in recent years about the power of design to solve social problems. Companies like IDEO, frog, and Smart Design—as well as numerous foundations, design schools, and ...

Design thinking provides a holistic approach to the development of new products and processes, emphasizing the creative, interdisciplinary synthesis of new systems that can lead to solutions for real ...

When just about all business activity — both with customers and employees — was hurriedly moved to digital a few months ago, one could be forgiven for not paying close attention to the nuances of the ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

At the Design Thinking Initiative (DTI) we bring design methods, creative problem-solving, and hands-on making into the Smith experience. When we design and build things with our own hands, something ...

Steve Jobs famously said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Design thinking takes this notion further and provides a set of tools to power innovation ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...