Rapid prototyping processes, part of design thinking, can lead to an abundance of fresh ideas. In last week’s column, we shared how biopharmaceutical company AbbVie uses design thinking to humanize ...

Design thinking is playing an increasingly significant role in the business world. Companies doing some of the most innovative work, such as Apple, Amazon, and Google, use this approach to help solve ...

True plug-n-play is the holy grail manufacturers strive to attain when systems must work with each other. The ideal scenario lets users take a device out of the box, plug it in, and start using it.

As someone who had never taken a d.school class, when I heard the words “design thinking” they seemed to conjure a single image of rainbow Post-its. On the Post-its floated buzzwords that meant little ...

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 ...

Love it or hate it, many teachers have seen just how much technology has changed the landscape of education. Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from ...

Supply chain leaders increasingly rely on data science to navigate disruptions, optimize operations and drive decisions. Yet data, like crude oil, holds no value unless refined into usable insights.

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 ...

What is design thinking, and why is design thinking important? It's an iterative process that begins with empathy and culminates in testing and implementation, only to be followed by further cycles of ...