Innovation with design thinking demands critical thinking because we must understand our assumptions that frame our ideas and shape our design. As our world becomes more and more digital, it’s not the ...

What is design? What makes it distinct from art, science, or engineering? The editors of this site decide dozens of times a day what is or isn’t “design.” But is it ultimately subjective, or can it be ...

As someone who had never taken a d.school class, when I heard the words “design thinking” they seemed to conjure a single image of rainbow Post-its. On the Post-its floated buzzwords that meant little ...

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 ...

Design thinking is everywhere, but definitions and interpretations vary. Design thinking is everywhere, but definitions and interpretations vary. Is it a paradigm allowing you to “think like a ...

This post is part of a special report on social innovation from What Matters, McKinsey & Company’s journal of ideas, in which innovators from around the world share their strategies. We have ...

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 ...

We’re living through an era of accelerated change, and leaders feel it every day. In five years, we’ve experienced the impacts of Covid and how it rebooted the norms we took for granted in how we work ...

Today’s organizations face multifaceted problems that are part of increasingly complex business models. Continued expansion of global transactions, supported by partnerships that can span large ...