The latest news from the d.School
Always focused on walking the walk, one of our very best thinkers and doers, Perry Klebahn will be heading up Timbuk2 in the very near future. We’d go on and on, but Bob Sutton has already said it better. We’re looking forward to reaping the knowledge rewards of Perry’s latest endeavor.
The d.school had a fantastic group of vistors from Aravind Eye Hospitals, based in Madurai, India, this morning. An amazingly ambitious and successful non-profit whose mission is to eliminate unnecessary blindness, Aravind has achieved a measure of efficiency in opthalmic surgery unheard of in more resource-rich nations. With no outside funding, they have innovated the…
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Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us stories from an industry insider’s viewpoint, tracing…
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Roger L. Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and one of the best writers on design thinking today is the guest on November 2, for the David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design. Please join! November 2nd 2006 8:00pm Building 260 – Room 113. Stanford University The…
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What is Designing for Sustainability? a d.school Mini-Conference Fall 2006 Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:30 PM – 7:00 PM Hewlett 200 Come join the students and faculty of MSE289 for a mini-conference on designing for sustainability. The conference is officially part of the d.school course, Clicks-n-Bricks: Creating Mass Market Experiences, but this session is open…
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"A valid process… flows from designers’ deep understanding of both user and context, and leads them to ideas they believe in but can’t prove." In October’s Fast Company, Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto writes about "Tough Love," the need for business to "outimagine the competition" by…
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The October 9, 2006 BusinessWeek has an article featuring d.school students’ Mozilla projects as the lead-in to an exploration of the new landscape of great design schools.
In the September 25, 2006 issue of BusineessWeek’s quarterly Inside Innovation section, Bob Sutton lays out the ground rules for great brainstorming.
“one of the fundamental changes happening in medical schools across the nation.” – Philip Pizzo, dean of Stanford’s School of Medicine Stanford Magazine on adding a more human-centered, hands-on approach to learning earlier in the educational experience of future doctors.
A good fireside chat hosted by 37signals. Check it out.
