Tom Maiorana is a Principal Interaction Designer at Intuit, as well as a Lecturer here at the d.school. He shared this insight on prototyping gleaned while he was co-teaching a workshop with Innovation Catalysts, a group of design thinking leaders and evangelists at Intuit. Yesterday, while observing teams in our prototyping workshop, we noticed that…
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Social enterprise d.light design, a company that started in our Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class, recently hit an important milestone: two million people around the world are using their solar-powered lanterns. That represents a tremendous global impact, as d.light’s customers often don’t have electricity and lack access to safe, affordable sources of lighting. Just…
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In what’s becoming a holiday tradition at the d.school, we’re releasing an updated version of the Bootcamp Bootleg, a working document that captures some of the teaching we impart in our “Design Thinking Bootcamp,” course. The guide outlines each mode of a human-centered design process, and describes a number of methods which may support your…
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A year ago, a group from PepsiCo came to the d.school to see how design thinking might apply to a new social business initiative they had begun to develop called Food for Good. They had already piloted a mobile summer feeding program but wanted to explore other avenues to bring healthy foods to inner city…
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Calling all Stanford University Graduate Students! Come to the d.school at building 550 for an info expo and pitchfest about our Winter and Spring offerings on the evening of Thursday, November 4, from 5:30 – 7:30PM Preview classes of interest to you for 2011. We’ll have a succession of elevator pitches of all the upcoming classes (that…
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Successful user testing requires a delicate balance of focus and openness – that was one of our greatest takeaways from the classes we took last year at the d.School (d.Bootcamp, d.Media, and the LDT d.Seminar, all awesome). Throughout the process of creating Motion Math, our learning game for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, we’ve…
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A contingent of d.school students recently returned from Kenya, where they spent two weeks working with Nokia Research Africa, and the University of Nairobi, developing health-related mobile applications. The trip was the culmination of months of work in connection with a new class at the d.school, “Designing Liberation Technologies,” which will be offered again in…
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d.school Alum Signo Uddenberg is using what he learned in Design for Extreme Affordability to tackle a new project in Tanzania this summer. An engineering master’s student studying sustainable design and construction, he’s the co-founder of a start-up incubator for innovative farming projects developed locally in Tanzania. The 2Seeds network, which started in 2009, launched…
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An icon from the earliest days at the d.school, the “z-rack” is a mindful hack that has literally transformed the way we work. Scott Doorley and George Kembel originally modified garment racks to create inexpensive (and plentiful) dry-erase surfaces to facilitate and capture the process of being visual with ideas. The z-racks unintentionally became excellent…
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The Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class has launched several internationally known start-ups (including Embrace, Driptech and D.Light.) But main route for student teams to get their life-changing products into the hands of people in the developing world is by working with NGO partner organizations. Working with partners is the quickest way to market: it…
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