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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on simple, actionable ways to simplify small business life. How many times have you left a formal meeting and doubted that ...

With The Design of Business, Roger Martin demonstrates how companies can successfully adopt the methodologies and perspectives that designers use to solve problems and run more efficient, effective ...

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 ...

Over the years the question of what makes some companies, and the people within, more or less creative than others has been studied ad nauseam. The idea of innovation within business has long been ...

At its root, design thinking addresses the critical areas of who, what, how and why. But, it needs to start with the customers' needs. Design thinking has been around for years, but the methodology ...

“We’ve done evaluations before, but the results weren’t that useful or interesting.” “I barely have time to get to all the things on my to-do list, let alone to spend extra time reflecting and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “d.school,” or Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, to use the formal name that no one at Stanford ever does, sits in a newish building just behind the main Quad, ...