The Santa Barbara Public Library’s Makerspace Open Lab has partnered with a local design research expert to offer one-hour workshops focusing on design thinking in startups, small businesses and the ...

Strategic design thinking has one single goal: to understand and solve a problem for its consumer. This method is applied to the design of intangible services and processes, an idea we have become ...

Steve Jobs famously said, “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Design thinking takes this notion further and provides a set of tools to power innovation ...

Master the principles of design thinking to ignite, manage and sustain innovation in your team, department or business unit. Drive digital transformation, understand customer needs through ...

Management is fundamentally antithetical to leadership. This leads to a conundrum in many organizations. Leadership is to management, what snowboarding is to skiing; what jazz is to classical ...

The approach, once used primarily in product design, is now infusing corporate culture. by Jon Kolko There’s a shift under way in large organizations, one that puts design much closer to the center of ...

Design thinking is an iterative approach driven by empathy for customers. It is an approach that is beneficial for any organization or industry. Proper implementation of design thinking can see ...

The kind of design thinking championed by Steve Jobs -- human-centered, iterative, and practical -- can fix more than just our gadgets Of all the areas of human endeavor touched by Steve Jobs, perhaps ...

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 ...