Civic Engagement
Using Human-Centered Design to Advance Civic Engagement in Nonprofits
Civic engagement efforts in the United States are becoming a renewed priority for nonprofits, but they can seem like a strain. Human-centered design can help.
Design Thinking Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems
Essentials of Social Innovation
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.
Design Thinking
The Next Chapter in Design for Social Innovation
To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.
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Restoring Lost Voices
Syrinx is an AI-driven wearable device that returns human speech and, with it, human dignity.
Are Your Data Visualizations Racist?
Three ways to be more equitable and inclusive with your data and data visualizations.
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Playful Critique
An excerpt from Creative Acts for Curious People on making judgments more deliberate
Efficacy Before Scale
To invest in and grow promising organizations and programs in a way that promotes efficacy prior to significant scaling and expansion, there are three pathways to follow: piloting, testing, and iterating.
The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good.
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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.
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation
Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.
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inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
inGenius argues that we don’t look at everything in our environment as an opportunity for ingenuity—but that we should.
Why Good Causes Need Great Design
Few things are as important to an organization’s growth as great design.