Design Dashboard

A toolkit to amplify your next design thinking action

What’s human- centered design?

Design thinking is more than process, it’s just as much about the way we show up for ourselves and each other.

  • Empathy for the people you are designing for and feedback from these users is fudnamental to good design.

  • Communicate your vision in an impactful and meaningful way by creating experiences, using illustrative visuals, and telling good stories.

  • Design thinking is a misnomer; it’s about doing that thinking. Bias toward doing and making over thinking and meeting.

  • Know where you are in the design process, what methods to use in that stage, and what your goals are.

  • Prototyping is not simply a way to validate your idea; it is an integral part of your innovation process. We build to think and learn.

  • Bring together innovators with varied backgrounds and viewpoints. Enable breakthrough insights and solutions to emerge from the diversity.

“Trying these tools in my work has personally stretched my preferential behaviors to ‘opens doors to the user’. Now it’s something I can’t unsee!”

— One new designer’s reflection in applying design thinking after their program