"Design thinking," which is gaining traction in the business sector, is about allowing even the most traditional thinker to create fresh, inventive solutions to business challenges by leveraging an ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember when Amazon was just the world’s biggest bookseller? After broadening its products to include, well, everything and optimizing ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I’m glad you mentioned the idea of designing one’s career, because that’s precisely the focus ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at a stand-up toothpaste tube or an ATM that returns your card before starting the transaction and thought, “What a great idea”? You are not alone. In a recent 60 Minutes episode, ...

The design thinking process is a two-pronged approach that involves both empathetic ideology and a process that aims to find the best possible solution for gaps in the market or problems in a given ...

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s ...

New student orientation is absolutely worth the time, resources and energy. Some of us may be required to prove this on an ongoing basis and are asked the dreadful question: “Where is the return on ...

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 ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...

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 ...