Rapid prototyping processes, part of design thinking, can lead to an abundance of fresh ideas. In last week’s column, we shared how biopharmaceutical company AbbVie uses design thinking to humanize ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

More than a decade ago, Scott Cook decided that the company he founded, the accounting software firm Intuit, needed to become more innovative. So he started to encourage all employees to spend 10% of ...

What is design thinking, and why is design thinking important? It's an iterative process that begins with empathy and culminates in testing and implementation, only to be followed by further cycles of ...

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 ...

Jazmine was a thoughtful and curious student who worked hard to earn good grades at her San Francisco Bay Area public high school in hopes of attending college. “Being blind meant that it took me ...

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 ...