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 ...

It is interesting to see how design thinking and coaching, two seemingly unrelated practice areas, have so much in common. Design thinking is an iterative process that attempts to understand the user ...

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 ...

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking.

Ideo partner Michael Hendrix discusses how design thinking can be used as a superficial tool to make a company seem innovative–even when it’s not. Ideo as an institution has rarely responded to ...

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 ...

Now, there’s a new argument against design thinking. Natasha Iskander, an associate professor of Urban Planning and Public Service at New York University, writes in the Harvard Business Review that ...

Ten years ago, SSIR published a seminal article on using design thinking in social innovation. The concepts it outlined went on to become a major component of strategic changemaking by civil society ...

1 Sarah Fathallah and A.D. Sean Lewis, “Abolish the Cop Inside Your (Designer’s) Head: Unraveling the Links Between Design and Policing,” Design Museum Magazine, vol. 18, 2021. 2 Lorraine Gamman & ...

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 ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved three new certificate programs for the fall 2025 semester at their Feb. 13 meeting. The College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS) ...