The employee experience continues to remain a top priority for organizations. Many are embarking on transformational journeys to shift the structure, approach and culture of their human resources ...

In recent years, more and more technology teams have opted to leverage design-thinking principles when building new software and tools. With a heavy emphasis on empathy and creativity, the multistep ...

The Build a Better Book project emphasizes a human-centered design thinking approach, in which participants first need to better understand the specific needs of their end users. The Design Thinking ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before.

Design thinking has failed to deliver on its promise to solve the world’s thorniest social challenges. Adopting a critical design stance can help designers serve communities, rather than their own ...

Isabelle Hodge ’20 has always been interested in making things—and making things better. But it wasn’t until she came to Smith that she became a true practitioner of design thinking. “During my ...

The world in 2020 is a remarkably different place. As we adapt to living during a pandemic, this ‘new normal’ will require a fresh mind-set to tackle issues. As countless people have been affected by ...

Today innovation is part of anything and everything we do. Whether you are a manager in a global corporation, an entrepreneur from a startup company, in a government office, or a teacher from an ...