In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s ...

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 ...

Pioneered by the Stanford d.school, Innovation by Design is a process that is extremely useful in tackling complex problems that are ill-defined or unknown, by understanding the human needs involved, ...

The endless succession of failed projects forces one to question why success is elusive, with an extraordinary number of projects tangling themselves in knots. These projects are like a child's string ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

The decade of Design Thinking is ending and I, for one, am moving on to another conceptual framework: Creative Intelligence, or CQ. I am writing a book about Creative Intelligence, due out from ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember when Amazon was just the world’s biggest bookseller? After broadening its products to include, well, everything and optimizing ...

What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...

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Design Thinking is the name of a formal innovation process used by many leading organizations such as P&G, Mayo Clinic, Bayer, and others. While Design Thinking came out of product development and ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...