How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

Awesome. Try it out and let us know how it turns out here.

Great piece. I particularly liked the second approach of looking at extremes to find unconventional solutions. I woul...

How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

This is a great point you raise. I don't think empathy exercises at all attempt to suggest you could KNOW what it's l...

I have been making more of a concerted effort to "learn by doing", which it sounds like is in a similar vein as empat...

How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

I can empathize with the frustration with slow moving systems. I've come to realize that sometimes, more often than n...

Now if you can come up with the way to "sell" it to those in charge of making decisions....I've been trying for years...

How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

Thanks Allie. Great point about using the resources at your disposal first. Made me think of the Wright brothers usin...

"If we use these methods, we might find that solutions are more accessible than we currently believe." I really be...

How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

Leticia. It is an exciting moment when one realizes that, especially later in life. I think you might be interested i...

I just discovered I am a designer. Thank you for that. I have been intuitively problem solving like a designer and I ...

How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

That's an interesting provocation Lilah. I think there is room for design to be about a lot of different things, but ...

Very important stuff to keep in mind. Design is not about producing well crafted products or systems but rather well-...