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 ...

Design Thinking continues to be a hot topic (this article is one of many talking about it). Design Thinking has been hyped and even fetishized but there are also voices questioning its value, impact, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

What is design thinking, and why is design thinking important? It's an iterative process that begins with empathy and culminates in testing and implementation, only to be followed by further cycles of ...

Today’s organizations face multifaceted problems that are part of increasingly complex business models. Continued expansion of global transactions, supported by partnerships that can span large ...