Finding opportunity in chaos through Design Thinking (1 of 3)

This is one of 3 articles (Reframe and React; Inner World Travel; and Let’s Get Physual) that were prepared as supporting resources to follow Darte’s invited talk with the good people of Dent trying to put a dent in the…

When traveling through Asia on a sabbatical, interviewing high-achieving women, a familiar thread began to emerge. While tapping and holding their lower abdomen they would say to me,

“You see, Jessica, any big decision I have to make comes from right here, from my gut.”

Certainly, they had spreadsheets of…

When you fidget, what is your body doing?

And what, exactly, is doing that?

Is it you? Is it your head brain? Is it your gut brain?

At Darte Design, we’ve been prototyping ways of using clay (not Play-Doh) as more than just a fidget toy: it serves us as…