Podcast #3 – Understanding Ethnography

In our first Design Thinkers Academy London Podcast, we talk to our Learning Designer, Goldie Chaudhuri, about Design Thinking itself, its role in society today on challenges such as climate change, and more specifically about her role as the Learning Designer and bringing Design Thinking to a wider audience.

At the Design Thinkers Academy, we are a lover of visuals and have been keeping a close eye on all the visual material coming out in relation to #Covid-19. In this blog we have put together 6 of our favourites, that help inform and educate, at times telling a story where words cannot. Have a look to see what you think of them and please share any powerful visuals that you’ve come across…

Our second podcast is here, this time with ‪The Climate Group‬ focussing on climate action and the role Design Thinking can play in the crisis facing the planet.

As we begin the new year, full of new ideas and ways in which Design Thinking will be used to innovate and transform, it also gives us a chance to look back and reflect. We have collated a list of our top Design Thinking blogs from last year. Transforming sales with Design Thinking by Charles […]

In the wake of the election, Ben Crisp explores the role Design Thinking played in the election. He looks at how Labours lack of empathy, not engaging in the Discovery phase of the Double Diamond played a role in their defeat.

As interest in Design Thinking grows, so does the number of Design Thinking events. We’ve pulled together our pick of design and innovation conferences of 2020 from across the globe. Wherever you are in the world, there should will be something near you. If you want to hear the latest ideas and meet others working in this area, check these out.

For our Design Thinkers Bootcamp in October, we worked with NHS Horizons, looking at the growing lack of nurses today and how we could use Design Thinking to help change perceptions of nursing and increase its career desirability to 15-17 year olds.

We’ll touch on 7 ways Design Thinking skills can add value to you, no matter what industry you work in.

We worked with circular economy SMEs for a workshop looking at user-centred innovation for circular business.

Former intern Erlend Prendergast talks to us about his graduate project into data privacy and digital surveillance and how it works to disrupt Amazon’s digital assistant – Alexa.

Learn all about how design thinking is impacting sales, as David Kester is interviewed for Raconteur’s Sales Performance Report for the Times, by Charles Orton-Jones.

At our June Bootcamp our delegates took on a challenge into ethical fashion set by Not My Style. Read the blog to find all about Not My Style and what the delegates created in response to the challenge.