Prior to their arrival in Nepal, students from Stanford University’s d.school were told that hospitals in the Asian nation were in need of an inexpensive incubator design to keep up with all of the ...

Pioneered by the Stanford d.school, Innovation by Design is a process that is extremely useful in tackling complex problems that are ill-defined or unknown, by understanding the human needs involved, ...

Let’s address some common design workshop myths. Aspirologies™ is my term for trendy methodologies that aspire to greatness but miss the mark or actively hurt processes, teams or product. Calling ...

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 ...

We had our assignment: Find ways to encourage lifelong learning. But we weren’t going to have a meeting. We weren’t going to form a committee. We weren’t going to write a grant. Instead, about 50 ...

Design thinking is great in concept, but there must be some planning around the execution. Recently, I wrote about how to put design thinking into action, covering what design thinking is, some of the ...

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 ...