Most universities aspire to produce job-ready graduates who can solve complex problems, work across cultures and adapt to change. Yet in many classrooms, students are rewarded for reproducing the ...

Since she began work as co-director of Smith’s Design Thinking Initiative earlier this fall, Zaza Kabayadondo has been fielding numerous questions about the program from interested students, faculty ...

Over the weekend, 20 teams from 17 public and private schools from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, New York and Ohio pitched prototypes to improve the tristate, 16-county Chattanooga region’s ...

The Deloitte welcome wall design rendering, developed in partnership with SCADpro for Deloitte Digital’s virtual studio, currently in development Successful designers are creative, collaborative and ...

At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan ...

Design thinking -- creative problem-solving that focuses on addressing the needs of users -- is a technique I've used to improve overall company results and customer satisfaction. After all, ...

In a recent guest post on this blog, Professor Donald Peurach described the challenge of transforming education through “deeper learning” and “21st-century skills.” He explained that most change ...

Few institutions illustrate this point better than education. Because almost every adult has experienced school, it has created a shared mental model for what education should resemble. A confluence ...

The Build a Better Book project emphasizes a human-centered design thinking approach, in which participants first need to better understand the specific needs of their end users. The Design Thinking ...

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, ...