Human-centered design is believed to have been born out of the Stanford University design program in 1958—when Professor John E. Arnold suggested that engineering design should be human-centered and ...

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Often dismissed as a ‘soft’ discipline, it’s actually the most practical route to value creation. We have a growing problem ...

Human-centered design, also known as design thinking, is a creative problem solving approach practiced in a wide variety of industry sectors. It uses human-centered techniques to truly understand a ...

On March 11, the novel coronavirus disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Now that it’s October I’m mostly embracing the uncertainty and vast changes of the pandemic, as ...

Often, proponents of human-centered design think about making change by streamlining a process or building an easier-to-use form or app. (Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash) This is your first of ...

Students are invited to participate in Sears think[box]’s Human-Centered Design Challenge, a free, four-week online workshop from Jan. 4 to Jan. 29. Design thinking is a process and a mindset to ...

Only one minor at Dartmouth finds students building roller coasters into the wee hours of the morning and taking over dorm common rooms as they cut up pieces of paper into as many different square ...

A typical design process looks like this: You get a bunch of requirements based on incremental improvements to an existing product or service, build the new offer, and ship it out to the world and ...

Over the past several years, the college student population has become increasingly diverse. In fact, 56 percent of college students are first-generation students, a significant jump from 37 percent ...