Today more people than ever travel to international destinations. And global travel can be so much more than running a marathon of museums. Think of global travel as inspiration — providing unique opportunities to exercise your creativity. Diverse and dedicated
When is the last time your principal, executive director or boss asked you to redesign a curriculum, program or product launch by empathizing with students, grant recipients or consumers? Probably not recently. But in a world saturated with the memes
Have you ever thought you defined a problem or solved a challenge by implementing your “pet idea” — an elegant product, groundbreaking system or awesome experience? No doubt, the solution itself was probably fantastic, but did it actually address the
Ideate is the space in design thinking where individuals and teams elevate and celebrate the power of possibility. It is the transition from identifying a particular question or problem to generating a wide variety of potential answers and solutions. It’s
If you made it to the test space, you really do have a good grasp of design thinking. Testing is the culmination of empathize–define–ideate–prototype spaces of design thinking. Problems have been framed and potential solutions prototyped but teams have not
Teachers in the United States establish “maker spaces” in elementary classrooms. School leaders in Peru develop a “blended learning” curriculum for low income students. Students in Singapore enroll in an “Imagineering Programme” that leads to a certificate in problem solving
When you think of design and design thinkers, do you visualize professional designers and engineers creating new products? Is it difficult to imagine yourself in that group? In fact, design thinking is not only about professional designers creating innovative products. Design
Visual thinking can sometimes be better than words when brainstorming, asking questions and connecting ideas previously thought to be unconnectable. And mind mapping makes visual thinking come alive. The old saying, “a photo is worth a thousand words” is certainly
Knowledge Without Borders™ used design thinking for social good to implement a user-centered solution for a school in a poor district of Lima, Peru. For several years I represented Knowledge Without Borders™ in a philanthropic project at the Madre Admirable
Design thinking is a dynamic and fluid approach to problem solving that has captured the imagination of innovators in education and philanthropy, as well as entrepreneurs around the globe. Originally focused on the exclusive domain of engineering, design thinking has
