The One Thing Your Team Needs Before Inspiration
How do you create a non-judgmental environment within the judgmental world of work?
15 January, 2018 / 0 Comments
Design Thinking’s Three Modes of Thinking: Open, Explore, Close
Design thinking can be a super helpful process for collaboratively and creatively solving problems, but what about the modes of thinking needed to effectively leverage that process?
27 November, 2017 / 0 Comments
Three Tools for Effective Collaboration
Defining what collaboration looks like for your team is key for successful & productive collaboration. Here are three tools that'll help you do just that.
31 October, 2017 / 0 Comments
Ecology, Deception, and My New Book on the Other Side of Design
Lead Trainer Thomas Wendt on the role of cunning intelligence & deception to make more socially, culturally & ecologically sustainable design decisions.
13 September, 2017 / 0 Comments
Finding Your Windows and Mirrors
Building empathy & broadening perspective happens by engaging with people with different backgrounds. Melissa Wong shares how she's been thinking about it.
07 September, 2017 / 1 Comment
What We Learned from Our Design Sprint with Vote Run Lead
We ran a Design Sprint on a meaningful problem for an organization we’re inspired by. Here are six lessons from that experience.
12 July, 2017 / 0 Comments
3 Ways to Customize a Design Sprint for Any Project
How should you go about customizing a Design Sprint to fit your problem? Here's a simple framework we like to use.
10 July, 2017 / 2 Comments
Why Run a Design Sprint?
Need a process for not only generating killer ideas, but also for moving them forward? Get that project mojo going with Design Sprints.
06 July, 2017 / 1 Comment
Skip Collaboration for Collaboration’s Sake
Collaboration isn’t always the best tool for every problem. So, how do you know when & how to most effectively leverage it?
01 June, 2017 / 1 Comment
The Power of Influence: Acknowledging Biases in Design
We are being faced with increasingly complex, large-scale problems. In order to come up with meaningful, long-lasting solutions, something has to change.
24 May, 2017 / 1 Comment