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An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.

“How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?”

Innovation is “the design, invention, development, and/or implementation of new or altered products, services, systems, organizational structures, or business models for the purpose of creating new value for customers and financial returns for the firm”

Combining data, design, and machine learning to build intelligent products and services that improve people’s lives

Academic Entrepreneurship is a free Open Education Resource that seeks to support and grow a new academic research community of Boundary Spanners – those who work in academia and with industry in order to realize the potential of basic discoveries that support the process of translational research through to commercialization and impact.

Applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer.

New disciplined techniques are being deployed for testing potentially value-producing ideas faster, less expensively, and more reliably. Vapor tests, fake front ends, fake back ends, and mini-pilots can all help health care organizations meet patients’ needs.

Healthcare expenditures vary fourfold across the globe, from less than 5% to nearly 20% of a nation’s gross domestic product. Higher levels of spending, however, have not necessarily produced better results, suggesting that some healthcare systems are more efficient than others.

Can you answer the call of the Entreprenurse? How do you build a culture of innovation? How can you develop an innovator’s mindset? How can you use a more human-centered approach to solving your challenges?

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

Back in the 1960s, mechanical engineer Bernard Roth met many engineers in the Silicon Valley, who worked for big companies such as Hewlett-Packard, and had dreams of starting their own companies. People just talked about it, and nothing happened.

An independent nonprofit initiative seeking to raise the level of global design education to an Ivy League standard, while at the same time reducing costs to as low as possible.

Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the “creative types.” But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative.

At the Core of Care shares the incredible stories of nurses in Pennsylvania and the people that they help. Learn about innovative ways that nurses are making a difference in so many lives every day.

A guide to the world’s best design practices, featuring 3 immersive books, the DesignBetter.Co Podcast, workshop opportunities, & countless real-world examples, exercises, audio interviews, and more.

Learn more about equity-centered design and how it can be used to address health disparities through this educational series.

This field guide provides an overview of the principles of Human-Centered Design and detailed insight on how to apply it in various agencies.

Use these various exercises to guide you through the Design Thinking Process and sharpen your ideas.

Liberatory Design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation. It is made up of mindsets and modes. Mindsets invoke stances and values to ground and focus our design practice, and modes provide process guidance for our design practice.

Systems of oppression, inequalities and inequities are by design. Should we use design to dismantle them?

Learn IDEO’s approach to design thinking and creative leadership through IDEO U—an online school that equips individuals with the tools and mindsets necessary to ignite creative confidence and tackle complex challenges.

Some of dschool’s most-used tools in a convenient deck, developed by designers from around the world. (Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-SA International)

The Field Guide examines the key mindsets that underpin how and why we think about design for the social sector, with 57 clear-to-use design methods for new and experienced practitioners, and from-the-field case studies of human-centered design in action. (Creative Commons 3.0 – CC BY-NC-ND)