Demand for constant product innovation and iteration in today’s world pushes the limits of what most executives have been trained to handle. New competition and heightened customer expectations change the paradigms of effective problem-solving for all organizations—from Fortune 500 companies to startups, non-profits, and the public sector. What leaders need in order to evolve their…
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CALLING ALL STANFORD GRADUATE STUDENTS Have you been itching to find out more about what kinds of design thinking classes and projects are still on offer by the d.school this Spring? Here’s your chance to find out. THU FEB 23, NOON-1PM d.school LUNCH AND INFORMATION Building 550 Atrium The d.school will present an expo info session…
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The d.school’s flagship class, Design Thinking Bootcamp, consistently draws students from every school and program to work together on team-based approaches to real-world challenges. Want a glimpse of what it’s like? Justin Ferrell, the Director of Digital, Mobile and New Product Design for the Washington Post, is on campus for a one-year long Knight journalism…
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We gave 76 Stanford grad students a challenge: describe each design process mode in one sentence. Check out our visualization of their responses to see a rhythm behind the design process.
Thanks for coming out to Pitch Night! Looking forward to seeing you all in class! CALLING ALL STANFORD GRADUATE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN THE D.SCHOOL Have you been itching to find out more about what kinds of design thinking classes and projects will be offered by the d.school this Winter and Spring? Here’s your chance to find…
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Swing by the d.school on Thursday at noon for lunch and info session on Spring quarter classes. Teaching teams will be on hand to answer questions and chat. Two new classes are on tap: Design for change: Poverty in America and Collaborating the future: Launching large scale sustainable transformations We’ll bring the food, you bring…
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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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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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Two students in our Transformative Design class came up with a fantastic way to prototype an emergency room situation that they couldn’t test with real users. Shuqiao Song and Carey Lee were prototyping ways to make people feel less anxious while waiting to be seen in the emergency room. Patients often wait with no idea…
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Peter Frykman poses with a hot-off-the-press copy of Business Week featuring Driptech, the drip irrigation company Peter formed using technology he developed with his Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability team. Business Week’s story exposes the newest and most interesting companies that are being born even in the midst of this recession. “History shows that great…
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