Dan Brown’s professional life has been about identifying real problems, designing a solution that seeks a competitive advantage, and getting it to the market in a socially responsible way. Design is ...

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 ...

Tim Morehouse, a silver medalist in team fencing at the 2009 Summer Olympics in Beijing, didn’t always feel a drive to excel. As a kid, he lacked focus and ambition. But fencing, he now says, gave him ...

The mental health and well-being of health professionals is a topic that is “broad, exceptionally relevant, and urgent to address,” said Zohray Talib, a member of the workshop planning committee who ...

Providing the lowest barrier of entry to making, democratizing design practices, and demystifying processes so that everyone might consider themselves a maker/designer. Engaging those most impacted by ...

Design thinking is a problem-solving process that encourages us to rethink the world and how people connect through products, systems or institutions. Leading brands globally use design thinking to ...

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 ...

For many developers, QA automation engineers, and site reliability engineers participating in agile development teams, the delivery work starts by defining user stories and committing to complete them ...

Design thinking has been around for many years, but it seems to me that it’s been poorly misused. Usually employed as a quick PR stunt, companies fail to understand how it can genuinely help create ...

In graduate school, I took a course on the synthesis of theory, design, and practice. We explored case studies and educational programs through three separate lenses: that of the researcher (theory), ...