Planning for the Future with Impact Cascade Through Speculative Design Creativity and innovation rely on drawing connections, seeing patterns, and pulling from other ideas or disciplines. When we think about design specifically, we believe there is endless opportunity to draw interesting approaches, tools, and methods from other areas. One such…

Inspired by Design Thinking Studio Winter, we decided to teach Spring Design Thinking Studio without any trace of the beloved hexagons design process. This meant a complete shift from many of the activities any of us had used before. Our learning objectives were for our students to develop a shared…

This article was written by the students of Spring Design Thinking Studio 2019 Rich, Colin and I concluded our class this year with a prompt for our students; share their thoughts on what design is for a medium post about the class. Our class, Design Thinking Studio, is a quarter-long…

Stanford Graduate School of Education Professor Roy Pea once told me that “learning is a reflective conversation with oneself.” It’s a great statement, one I often refer back to and remind myself of. What makes reflection so powerful, is that it prompts a process of self-explanation in a learner. But…

Analogies are pretty cool, right? Using them is kind of like riding a bike (see what I did there?!?). But seriously, they’re not just a rhetorical tool. They can offer designers and learners a great opportunity to explore ideas, concepts, and insights from a completely new perspective. Last week was…

Designing educational experiences at the d.school. Last week was the first class of Design Thinking Studio for the spring quarter. DTS is designed to be an accessible entry-point into the world of design for students across Stanford’s seven schools. …

Remembering back to high school, college, or a workplace learning series, did you notice that in some classes you didn’t learn a thing, but in others, like magic, the whole world unfolded before you? As a member of the teaching team here at the Stanford University d.school, I am a…

Making the decentralized web accessible to the people who need it When I first Googled “decentralized web,” and “d.web”, it took me about an hour to find a definition I really understood. I soon realized that once you stop focusing on the technical jargon, from the outside, the decentralized web…

Workforce development has never been more important. Recent research by PwC suggests that 4 in 10 jobs in America have a high risk of being automated[i]. On a global scale, McKinsey is estimating that a little under 1 billion jobs will be automated[ii]. How might workforce development organizations deliver the…