This article was adapted with permission from a talk Pentagram partner Natasha Jen gave for the MA Design Research, Writing, and Criticism Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Read a ...

It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Remember when Amazon was just the world’s biggest bookseller? After broadening its products to include, well, everything and optimizing ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I’m glad you mentioned the idea of designing one’s career, because that’s precisely the focus ...

Over the years the question of what makes some companies, and the people within, more or less creative than others has been studied ad nauseam. The idea of innovation within business has long been ...

Have you ever looked at a stand-up toothpaste tube or an ATM that returns your card before starting the transaction and thought, “What a great idea”? You are not alone. In a recent 60 Minutes episode, ...

"Design thinking," which is gaining traction in the business sector, is about allowing even the most traditional thinker to create fresh, inventive solutions to business challenges by leveraging an ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...

Jazmine was a thoughtful and curious student who worked hard to earn good grades at her San Francisco Bay Area public high school in hopes of attending college. “Being blind meant that it took me ...

We had our assignment: Find ways to encourage lifelong learning. But we weren’t going to have a meeting. We weren’t going to form a committee. We weren’t going to write a grant. Instead, about 50 ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...