7 ways Design Thinking can transform your career and business

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.

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 teamed up with Advance London and some exciting circular economy SMEs for a second workshop – this time 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.

“As a leader of change projects, I realised it was a powerful way to get people engaged in change and that spiked my curiosity. It led me to want to know more.”

“What makes our Design Thinking Bootcamps truly unique is that we work on a real-life social challenge, set by a client.” Learn all about what makes our Bootcamps unique.

“You know sometimes people think it’s just a trendy thing to have, this thing called Design Thinking. I’ve been convincing them otherwise – that it works. We’ve proven that it works.”