I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

Prior to their arrival in Nepal, students from Stanford University’s d.school were told that hospitals in the Asian nation were in need of an inexpensive incubator design to keep up with all of the ...

We had our assignment: Find ways to encourage lifelong learning. But we weren’t going to have a meeting. We weren’t going to form a committee. We weren’t going to write a grant. Instead, about 50 ...

Design thinking leads to better customer experiences and in turn supports team collaboration. Give it a go. Over my technology career I’ve gravitated from being a developer and solution architect on ...

In today's world, there's no shortage of what Ryan Bailis '21 calls "wicked problems" — issues that can only be tackled with novel, innovative ideas. The computer engineering and management major is ...

Design has evolved beyond making objects – organizations now want to learn how to think like designers, and apply design principles to the workplace itself. One company at the forefront of this ...

Let’s address some common design workshop myths. Aspirologies™ is my term for trendy methodologies that aspire to greatness but miss the mark or actively hurt processes, teams or product. Calling ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...