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After a terrific fall quarter of need-finding work with governance innovators from around the world, both of us were itching to get on the ground to test our initial prototypes and begin to hone our ideas about how the Governance Collaboratory might work in practice. Our first stop was in Nairobi, Kenya at the much…
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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 out! Tuesday Feb. 19th, from 12:00-1:00pm the d.school will host an information expo. Find out more about the classes we’ll be offering this spring (and eat for…
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After delineating the variables to explore in our prototypes, Jeremy and I combined them in different ways to come up with five possible models for the Governance Collaboratory: The Consultancy: outsiders team with a client to address a broadly defined problem. A consultancy model for the Collab could take two forms: a governance innovator embedded…
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Prototyping serves multiple purposes in the human centered design process. By constructing a prototype of an idea, designers are forced to think through details that help them understand how their ideas actually work in practice. Prototypes create opportunities for users to experience an idea, which yields very different reactions than simply explaining a concept. Designers…
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This is the fourth of a series of blog posts summarizing recent need finding efforts for the Governance Collaboratory, an initiative to bring design thinking to governance challenges in the developing world. See our previous posts here, here and here for further discussion on this work. Technologists are distinct from Activists and Reformers not just because of…
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This is the third of a series of blog posts summarizing recent need finding efforts for the Governance Collaboratory, an initiative to bring design thinking to governance challenges in the developing world. See our previous posts here and here for further discussion on this work. Our interviews with government reformers underscore the unique challenges of the governance innovator…
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This is the second of a series of blog posts summarizing recent need finding efforts for the Governance Collaboratory, an initiative to bring design thinking to governance challenges in the developing world. See our previous post here for further discussion on this work. Reviewing and synthesizing need finding work as a team enables designers to draw…
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This is the first of a series of blog posts summarizing recent need finding efforts for the Governance Collaboratory, an initiative to bring design thinking to governance challenges in the developing world. Empathy is the foundation of the human centered design process and was our primary focus during the fall quarter. Designers gain empathy…
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We are thrilled to share this interview of David Kelley on 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose. The interview covers David’s pioneering work in design thinking, co-founding IDEO and Stanford’s d.school, and his ’54 Chevy pickup truck. Below is a snippet of David Kelley encouraging people to build creative confidence. See the full interview on 60 Minutes here. (Keep an eye out for d.school…
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At the Governance Collaboratory, our target user is an individual who seeks to reshape the way that governments work and how they interact with citizens. Within that general criteria, one of the first things we wanted to understand is the different types of governance innovators we might seek to support in the Collaboratory. How are…
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