Convening by Design
Principles and tactics for creating strategic convenings that foster meaningful interaction and outcomes.
Design Thinking Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems
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Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’
Local social networks are often filled with just as much misinformation, racism, and toxicity as global platforms, with effects that can be even more severe.
Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.
Combatting the Psychology of Bias
How our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it.
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Mind the Message
An excerpt from The Secret Language of Maps on seeing past the visuals.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Convening by Design
Principles and tactics for creating strategic convenings that foster meaningful interaction and outcomes.
The Ethics of Innovation
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.