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Close Before Open: Using Design Thinking Mindsets for Your Year-End Reflection
Over the years practicing, teaching and continuing to learn about design thinking, I’ve experimented with applying the process, methods and mindsets to projects outside of my day-to-day work with The...
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Growing Up in 2016
One of our peer advisors told us once that the early years of childhood can often be used as a good metaphor for a new business or startup. An age when every year brings new experiences, unlike any...
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Building Ecosystems in Organizations: Lessons from Gap Inc.
By Anya Kandel This week’s blog post was contributed by TDG friend and community member Anya Kendal. Anya has spent much of her career focused on innovation strategy, including 3 years helping build...
View ArticleOpen Call for Lead Trainers
We’re thrilled to announce that we’re looking to expand our team of Lead Trainers! The role of a Lead Trainer is a combination of strategist, front of room trainer and project/client relationship...
View ArticleDesign Thinking Learning vs. Doing: Stories and Lessons from the Front Lines
BY: REILLY CARPENTER When I teach design thinking in a training environment, my goal is to expose people to how design thinking works conceptually and generate excitement about how the mindsets can...
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The “What’s Innovative?” Debate: Try Using First, Best, and Only
By: Sarabeth Berk, PhD Innovation is the currency of business strategy, models, and management, yet the term has become ubiquitous to the point where it oftentimes feels meaningless or inauthentic to...
View ArticleThe Power of Influence: Acknowledging Biases in Design
BY ANYA KANDEL In the field of organizational design and innovation strategy, I help teams and communities solve complex problems, establish new ways of working, and build new systems and products. I...
View ArticleSkip Collaboration for Collaboration’s Sake
BY: HANNAH FELDBERG-DUBIN As a facilitator, it’s my business to think about how people can work together to achieve the best results. I design and facilitate a variety of different sessions, from...
View ArticleWhy Run a Design Sprint?
This year at the 99U Conference, The Design Gym and I had the opportunity to lead a Studio Session in which we discussed why Design Sprints are important and explored how to customize them for you and...
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3 Ways to Customize a Design Sprint for Any Project
In the last post, we discussed why you’d want to run a Design Sprint. The reality is a great idea alone is not enough. You have to have the right collaborative process for building momentum and...
View ArticleWhat We Learned from Our Design Sprint with Vote Run Lead
It’s no secret that at The Design Gym we love learning and exploring. As a team, we try to prioritize time outside the office to cultivate team culture and recharge our creative battery packs—whether...
View ArticleFinding Your Windows and Mirrors
Building empathy and broadening your perspective will only happen by engaging with people with different backgrounds in a safe container. By: Melissa Wong One year ago, my business partner Sandy and I...
View ArticleEcology, Deception, and My New Book on the Other Side of Design
By: Thomas Wendt The evolution of design into its human-centered form has undoubtedly resulted in substantive improvements to the human condition. Focusing designers’ efforts on serving the needs of...
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Three Tools for Effective Collaboration
By: Anya Kandel Collaboration only works when it means something One of the biggest pitfalls in collaboration is when groups of people act on good-intentioned assumptions without clarity or...
View ArticleThe One Thing Your Team Needs Before Inspiration
A big part of my role as a strategist, facilitator and trainer at The Design Gym is to design programs and sessions for our clients that incorporate elements of inspiration. My team and I spend lots...
View ArticleSeizing the Moment: The Value of Creative Dispositions
By: Adam Royalty Are you ready to take advantage of a moment to innovate even if you aren’t planning for it? Every single day people miss opportunities for small innovations because they’ve got their...
View ArticleBeyond Buzzword: What Does “Co-create” Even Mean?
By Melissa Wong What do ad campaigns, event series, how-to guides and pizza all have in common? Apparently, these are all things that you can co-create together. Over the last year, I’ve heard the term...
View ArticleWhen the Training Wheels Come Off
How to Keep the Momentum Going Once the Design Thinking Consultants Have Left BY: ASHLEY PINAKIEWICZ As a creative leader in your organization, you’re all about equipping your team with the tools to...
View Article4 Ways to Listen to Your Stakeholders
“Talk to your stakeholders/audience/customers/constituents/users!” Sound familiar? When it comes to design thinking, the focus is on the human user: to design better experiences, you need to develop...
View ArticleBuilding a Design Thinking Community…For Your Life
What our good friend Gabrielle Santa-Donato learned from scaling Life Design to Universities across the world. By: Gabrielle Santa-Donato My life, like yours, is a wicked problem. Just when I thought I...
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