Thanks a bunch for bearing with us as we try to satisfy your appetite for design thinking. Use the form below to send a request for a d.thinking learning experience to a select group of design thinking teachers and coaches; if your request aligns with their particular skills and areas of interest, they will be…
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The Co-Founder and Executive Director of the d.school, George Kembel, answers the next question in the burning questions series with a twist… “What is the elevator pitch for design thinking?” Please respond to the prompts within using (hashtag) BurnQ, and we’ll collect some of our favorite responses and expose them to the network, along with…
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Our Academic Director, Bernie Roth, answers the next question in the #burningquestion series: “What is the difference between the scientific method and design thinking?” We want to hear from you! Fire us some questions at next (dot) d (at) dschool (dot) stanford (dot) edu or mention us (stanforddschool) in a tweet with (hashtag) burningquestion. We…
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The first answer in our #burningquestion series comes from David Kelley; it is in response to @juxte‘s question about personality traits and their correlation to design thinking abilities. If you’ve got other questions, shoot them to us at next (dot) d (at) dschool (dot) stanford (dot) edu or mention us (stanforddschool) in a tweet with (hashtag)…
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We want to know what’s keeping you up at night. Email your burning question to d (dot) next (at) dschool (dot) stanford (dot) edu or ask your question in a tweet to (at) stanforddschool with (hashtag) burningquestion. We will post a video response to the most frequently asked question tomorrow.
How could democracy activists use crowdsourcing technology to engage the throngs of Tahrir Square in the negotiations to create a new constitution for Egypt? This was just one question that Silicon Valley experts and Stanford students began to answer on May 14 at the Cloud to Street Hackathon for Egypt. Held at the d.school, The…
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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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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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Our bootcamp students are deep in prototype-test-iterate cycles for their second design project, and they’re asking a question that’s fairly universal for design-process learners: Do I have to test my prototype with the same users I designed it for? The short answer is: Heck no! It’s always best to get as far out of your…
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