For the better part of the past decade, the design profession has been in a chaotic period. Confronting a unique mixed salad of conflicts–political, social, economic and environmental–designers have ...

System design work is not easy. Sometimes, when you’re out walking or cycling, or maybe simply pouring a glass of water while taking a break, an idea or aphorism might arise in your mind. For example, ...

The need for problem-solving is at the heart of many businesses in scaling. Utilizing an effective problem-solving strategy can often impact a business’s value and how much revenue it can generate.

A longtime marketing executive describes how to implement design thinking methods into company leadership — and just what it can do for a workplace — in this guest op-ed. What design thinking entails, ...

Greg Holderfield is director of the Segal Design Institute, clinical associate professor and co-director of the MMM program. In the first of two posts, Holderfield discusses what makes design thinking ...

For those of us who were teenagers in the 1980s, the teen comedy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, was a classic movie for many reasons. As teenagers, we could relate to the stifling school environment that ...

A design method is simply a set of steps you can refer to, so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every time you are trying to solve a similar design problem. Design methods are great. They help ...

The test scores are out again. And once again, American kids aren’t doing so well. You can choose any of the international standardized tests and on average, American children will always be stuck in ...

It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that ...

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 ...