The Three Thinking Modes In many tomes about creativity, you'll hear talk about divergent and convergent thinking. Divergent just means lots of ideas and convergent just means choosing one or a few of many. At The Design Gym, we call those modes open and close. You
We've posted about Service Design tools before, but it seemed worthwhile to share a few more tools from our research on the web and from our other friends in the design world, since people have been asking about it. We see Design Thinking, Service Design and Experience
Design manifestos attempt to codify the purpose, goals, or intent behind Design. We can design good things or bad things. We can design intentionally or unintentionally. We can refuse to design certain things in certain ways for certain people. What you won't do can be
Originally written January 30, 2015, this piece was updated on February 16, 2016. The office is usually not the place for romance
Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words. But drawing is worth Thousands of words. Why? Because there is simply no better (or faster) way to communicate what you mean to your team. Often in meetings there's a lot of handwaving and conversation
The Studio Project is a place to practice, a safe environment, a real case study, one-on-one coaching, and accelerated insights. More about The Studio Project Research, Synthesis, Insights, Strategy and Great Ideas. It's something we're all asked to do nearly every day at our jobs. At The Design Gym, we've
The gaming industry is larger than Hollywood, by many measures. People spend tremendous amounts of time and money on games—and even pay to watch other people play games (and not just baseball
A place to practice, A safe environment, A real case study, One-on-one coaching, and accelerated insights. Research, Synthesis, Insights, Strategy and Great Ideas. It's something we're all asked to do nearly every day at our jobs. At The Design Gym, we've been teaching the design thinking process to companies
One thing we're really proud of here at The Design Gym is that we're a community driven organization. Looking back, it's pretty clear that everything we've built has been done with input and participation of a core community that believes in what we're doing and is willing to pitch in
Visual Thinking, as you all know, makes you an automatic Ninja. Being able to express your ideas visually makes them more impactful, and more memorable. It's worth getting better at! That's one of the reasons we have a Visual Thinking Happy Hour each month, and
DonorsChoose.org is ranked year after year as one of the most innovative organizations in the world. We think their insatiable curiosity and willingness to learn is a tremendous contributing factor. The best companies are learning constantly in an effort to push their creative capabilities and
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