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Design Thinking Case Studies

InnovationTraining.org

Find examples of how design thinking is used to solve problems, prototype, and innovate. As more organizations and companies across the world adopt design thinking into their operations, it becomes even more obvious just how essential innovation is for continued success and growth. Netflix’s Innovative Updates.

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Fly, Crash, Adapt

Destination Innovation

Paul MacCready (1925 – 2007) was an aeronautical engineer and inventor of the first human-powered aircraft. Early efforts to build human-powered aircraft had featured wooden designs, which proved too heavy. They came up with an unorthodox design called the Gossamer Condor. Paul MacCready. Some used catapults to launch the craft.

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Cracking the complexity code

Paul Hobcraft

There was a good article within the McKinsey Quarterly published way back in 2007 entitled “Cracking the complexity code,” written by three authors Suzanne Heywood, Jessica Spungin, and David Turnbull. They suggest organizations need to decide on where to hold complexity within any design and build the right capabilities where they matter.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

Read on to learn from how this innovator in action is leveraging theory for progress. High-performing companies like Intuit design for what is valuable to consumers and customers. They have a process to intentionally learn from people, and then those lessons inform how they design their business model to deliver value.

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Find inspiration behind these 3 surprising market creation stories

Christensen Institute

Web browsers simply weren’t available when Simon was conceived in the 90s, but when the iPhone came along in 2007 it had full access to the internet, and the ability to download many additional applications. At first its design was seen as anti-Christian and villainous, and later it was seen as too feminine.

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Bringing Design Thinking into the classroom to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future

Betterific

Paul Kim , is a teacher at Colorado Academy and Co-Director of the Redi Lab, and is best known for using the design thinking process to teach History. He is our design thinking guest blogger. Below, Paul lays the case for using design thinking in school. Differentiation by Design. by Paul Kim.