Innovation Fellows Roadside Assistance: Design Thinking

The Design Thinking Bootleg is a set of tools and methods that we keep in our back pockets, and now you can do the same.

Stanford's Design School sees itself as a training ground for problem-solving for graduate students that “fosters creative confidence and pushes them beyond the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines.” Whereas design schools elsewhere emphasize the design of products, Stanford’s uses what the local culture calls “design thinking”: “to equip our students with a methodology for producing reliably innovative results in any field.”

Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has produced a series of videos on resilience. Many of the reflections in these videos will show you that success comes because of, not in spite of, failure.

Game changing technologies and how they're disrupting design - Infographic

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we build things.

The trendy concept is in high demand among educators, but its specifics are vague.

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So what is design thinking, why is everyone talking about it and what are the takeaways for marketers?

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Created by IDEO - Links to the "Design Thinking for Educators" toolkit

In fields of design, there is a vocabulary, shared mindset, and toolkit of strategies for understanding challenges and building innovative solutions. Education can benefit from adapting these practices to pedagogy, classroom and school design policy development.

A human-centered problem-solving approach that may be used in the teaching/learning process to develop 21st century skills as well as enhance creativity and innovation. This paper introduces design thinking and its application in pedagogy.

Design thinking differs from previous problem-solving approaches in its prioritization of the user experience and its reliance on continuous feedback and iteration.

Discusses design thinking principles and process, describing real-world examples of design thinking in action, and offering possibilities for how you might introduce the approach into your own organization