Innovation with design thinking demands critical thinking because we must understand our assumptions that frame our ideas and shape our design. As our world becomes more and more digital, it’s not the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Design thinking is a powerful process that requires a growth mindset to develop inventive solutions. An inquisitive mindset and desire to seek new learning are necessary for design thinking. Design ...

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 ...

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 ...