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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From the iPhone to everyday furniture, design thinking has enabled some of the world's most beloved brands like Apple and Ikea to develop intentional and human-centric products. Often used in product ...
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 ...
This week, I had the opportunity to participate in a design thinking session run by professor Eugene Korsunskiy. It was wicked good. (Can you tell that I grew up in Boston?) Nowadays, it seems as if ...
Have an intractable problem? Looking to build a stronger team? Design thinking is a process aimed at solving problems that focuses on empathy, experimentation, and feedback. Interested in setting up a ...