Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich developed the online courses to last six weeks and leave participants with skills they can apply in their daily work.

As someone who had never taken a d.school class, when I heard the words “design thinking” they seemed to conjure a single image of rainbow Post-its. On the Post-its floated buzzwords that meant little ...

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking.

The “d.school,” or Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, to use the formal name that no one at Stanford ever does, sits in a newish building just behind the main Quad, ...

Over the years the question of what makes some companies, and the people within, more or less creative than others has been studied ad nauseam. The idea of innovation within business has long been ...

Here you will learn more about the concentrations DTI is connected with and the additional courses we offer. For recommendations on course across the curriculum that integrate design and hands-on ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...

Creative problem-solving used to take place on the playground during recess, when worksheets temporarily disappeared and teachers stood at a distance. There, learning happened through exploration and ...