Design thinking provides a holistic approach to the development of new products and processes, emphasizing the creative, interdisciplinary synthesis of new systems that can lead to solutions for real ...

Over the past few years, design thinking has quickly gained momentum in the business world. Some of the world’s leading brands—the likes of Apple, Google, HBO, Samsung, World Bank, and General ...

Harvard Business Review lauds the collaborative prompt “How might we” (HMW) as the “one secret phrase that all top innovators use.” And it’s certainly known as the quickest way to shift design teams ...

Design thinking, the notion that anyone can solve problems like a designer with the right method and mindset, was a mainstay of corporate America from the 2000s into the 2010s. In recent years, though ...

When just about all business activity — both with customers and employees — was hurriedly moved to digital a few months ago, one could be forgiven for not paying close attention to the nuances of the ...

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 ...

Enter design thinking—an approach that goes beyond mere products to delve deeply into customer experience, transforming everyday banking into an intuitive, engaging, and satisfying journey. How can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...