Best Design and Innovation Events in 2018

Hayley sits down with Belinda, our new Head of Faculty, to find out more about her career and what she loves about Design Thinking.

We’ve collated our favourite design thinking resources from the last 6 months to bring you the ultimate reading list for those long, cold, winter commutes.

It can be perilous to adopt an “if you build it, they will come” mentality. Too often, organizations jump straight into ideation and prototyping without understanding whom a product is for or what problem it is solving.

If you’re stuck for gift ideas this Christmas, check out our top pick purchases to give to your wonderful workmates, friends or family. From quirky designs to must-reads, our in-house design team have picked it all out for you!

Craig has previously worked on retail projects to deliver the best customer experience that will differentiate brands in a commodity market. Here Craig explains his not-so-joyous experience at the Apple Store.

Craig Tomkins has joined us as a Senior Service Designer. He brings top notch agency experience and a love of car design, bikes and transport. Hayley catches up with Craig on his journey so far.

What makes a leader, what is the role of leaders, can one become a leader? Questions that have moved humanity from the get go, to which the answers have changed over time.

Who is worth following on social media? Well, here are a few of our favourites and why we like them. There are lots of great design thinking tweeters, but these are some tweeps that inspire us on other topics.

Holly May Mahoney has just joined as our new Design Lead here at Design Thinkers Academy in London. Mel Taylor, our Marketing Director, catches up with her at her new desk to find out about her creative adventures so far and what she’s planning next.

It’s a very human need to try to make things better, to be nicer to people and to make more money. In simple terms that’s what’s behind the increase in corporate and highly commercial organisations seeking people to fill a new role in their management structure; the Service Designer. Resourcer Madelaine Cooper explains.

How is design being taught in UK schools? Are we nurturing an innovative and tech-savvy new generation of designers, or falling behind…? From EBacc to edtech, Ezri Carlebach tries to keep track of the latest trends in teaching creative subjects and creativity in general.

Design thinking is being touted as a link between the traditional world of work and modern creative practice, driver of growth in cities around the world. Ezri Carlebach finds out more and chats to Adrian Fey from the Creative World Forum 2017 in up-coming city Aarhus, Denmark.