Design thinking can be a powerful approach that helps organizations break through their limiting assumptions of what is possible. It creates deep empathy and gets us out of the abstract debate over ...

According to an April 2022 Gallup article, "U.S. Employee Engagement Slump Continues," only 32% of full- and part-time employees are engaged, while 17% are actively disengaged. This lack of employee ...

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 ...

Lisa Ruiz is the head of regulatory affairs, Latin America, for biopharmaceutical company AbbVie. Her work takes her in and out of board rooms, airport lounges, and health care systems throughout the ...

Hannah Turbeville is a sixth-year MD–PhD student at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and president-elect of the American Physician Scientists Association. Ruth Gotian is ...

Experimentation. Experts like Harvard professor Tsedal Neeley and Adam Grant say that companies should iterate and experiment when designing their remote and hybrid work environments. As Grant says, ...

More than a decade ago, Scott Cook decided that the company he founded, the accounting software firm Intuit, needed to become more innovative. So he started to encourage all employees to spend 10% of ...

Jazmine was a thoughtful and curious student who worked hard to earn good grades at her San Francisco Bay Area public high school in hopes of attending college. “Being blind meant that it took me ...

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 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 ...