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Design thinking workshops + human-centered design consulting
Understanding the mechanics of design thinking is critical to introducing it into the ongoing practices of your organization. But just as essential is facing organizational resistance to change. Bringing design thinking into an organization requires a hearty sense of optimism…
Read More Six strategies for facing internal resistance to design thinking
Play is essential for innovation, creativity, and collaboration, and the most successful design thinkers are the ones who embrace the notion of play. In this post, we share five reasons play is critical to design thinking. We recently taught an…
Read More Why play is essential to the design thinking process
In working with clients across sectors, from museums to tech start-ups, we've observed some common errors that practitioners new to design thinking often make when implementing and applying the process. Following are the most common errors we have observed, with…
Read More Five mistakes of beginning design thinkers (and how to overcome them)
When tackling a new challenge, it’s common to jump straight to previously used solutions, instead of considering all possibilities. This is known as the "Einstellung Effect," and it can seriously impede your team’s design thinking capacity and innovation capability. The…
Read More How to arrive at innovative solutions by diminishing cognitive bias