Design Thinking Breakfast October 2020: Jacinda Walker
“Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” The October 23, 2020 design thinking breakfast featured Jacinda Walker of designExplorr. She challenged adults to think about designing for a user with…
Design Thinking Breakfast with Johnny Saye
Written by Niesha Ford “Ooo baby, here I am, sign, sealed, delivered, I’m yours” Stevie Wonder sang as the first design thinking breakfast was getting started. In this time during COVID-19, connecting…
Design Thinking Gumbo
An Introduction to Design Research Methods Design Thinking Gumbo is a series of one-hour workshops on a variety of methods that can be used in design research. Each workshop will…
Design Thinking in Biomedical Engineering
“What kind of research needs to be done before brainstorming? How to incorporate many voices? How to get unstuck in brainstorming/design thinking?” “How to combine ideas with teammates and talk…
Design thinking in Applied Math Education
A college student sits in an Applied Math class waiting for the lecture to begin. As the professor introduces the three guests who were expected to talk about design thinking,…
A 5-step process to design difficult and meaningful conversations
By Samantha Fleurinor, Taylor Center Senior Program Coordinator
Building Empathy during Quarantine by Journey Mapping Daily Routines
Written by Tran Nguyen-Phuong, Taylor Center 2019-2020 Design Thinking Student Fellow and Erica Casareno, Taylor Center 2019-2020 Communications Student Fellow. Uncertainty is an unavoidable element of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has…
Máille Faughnan leads session on(re)framing practices in design thinking
On Friday, May 15, 2020, I led a session on (re)framing practices in design thinking for the monthly Design Thinking the New Orleans Way virtual breakfast series. The purpose was…
PIVOT 2020
Designing a world of many centers… what does a world in which many worlds fit look like? The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane…