Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that focuses on understanding the needs of people, generating creative ideas ...

Design thinking is a human-centric approach to product development. Useful software tools streamline many of the phases of the design thinking process. Effective design thinking tools allow teams to ...

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 ...

The phases of design thinking aren’t a linear sequence of events. You might find yourself returning to phases multiple times throughout a project. The phases of design thinking are designed to be ...

Over the weekend, 20 teams from 17 public and private schools from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, New York and Ohio pitched prototypes to improve the tristate, 16-county Chattanooga region’s ...

The twice-yearly Innovate to Grow event at UC Merced expanded to include first-year students Courtesy UC Merced Innovate to Grow is a twice-yearly celebration of student ingenuity hosted by the School ...

Design thinking is a great way to help students tackle problems in manageable pieces—it can also help them learn empathy and think about the global implications of local problems. Lisa Yokana, high ...

Few institutions illustrate this point better than education. Because almost every adult has experienced school, it has created a shared mental model for what education should resemble. A confluence ...

The value of design thinking has been well documented in the past. This value can range from increased adoption to more revenue. With some minor modifications to already common software development ...

The Graham Foundation has announced the award of 64 new grants to individuals exploring innovative and interdisciplinary ideas that contribute critical perspectives on architecture and design in 2023.

W ith the global economy at a crossroads, higher education will need to pivot and to do things differently. Design thinking offers a strategy for success, experts say, bringing education and ...

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 ...