Human-centered design is believed to have been born out of the Stanford University design program in 1958—when Professor John E. Arnold suggested that engineering design should be human-centered and ...

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Human-centered design, also known as design thinking, is a creative problem solving approach practiced in a wide variety of industry sectors. It uses human-centered techniques to truly understand a ...

On March 11, the novel coronavirus disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Now that it’s October I’m mostly embracing the uncertainty and vast changes of the pandemic, as ...

Often, proponents of human-centered design think about making change by streamlining a process or building an easier-to-use form or app. (Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash) This is your first of ...

Only one minor at Dartmouth finds students building roller coasters into the wee hours of the morning and taking over dorm common rooms as they cut up pieces of paper into as many different square ...

A typical design process looks like this: You get a bunch of requirements based on incremental improvements to an existing product or service, build the new offer, and ship it out to the world and ...

What exactly is people-centered design? Harvard Business School defines the concept as a “problem-solving technique that puts real people at the center of the development process.” This can help us ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. When addressing equity in public education, we tend to focus on curriculum, funding and ...

Education2030 Design for Global Goals is an experiential learning initiative inspired by UNESCO’s Education2030 framework. Through workshops and hands-on training, the project empowers middle school ...