In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

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 ...

Design thinking… what is that? I have this image of Allen Samuels permanently emblazoned on my brain. This goes back to college. With his usual amazing energy and unrestrained passion, this deeply ...

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 ...

When educators first consider redesigning learning spaces, they might immediately conjure up mental images of free-flowing Starbucks lounges or something out of the Cult of Pedagogy blog’s Classroom ...

At the Design Thinking Initiative (DTI) we bring design methods, creative problem-solving, and hands-on making into the Smith experience. When we design and build things with our own hands, something ...