Hey Design Thinkers! Join us to practice our Design Thinking skills. We will practice (or learn) our Design Thinking as we redesign Higher Education to fit 2020 and beyond. Higher Ed is in the middle of a radical transformation. It has been predicted that 50%...
Ayse Birsel is co-founder and creative director of Birsel + Seck, an empathy-driven product design studio in New York City that partners with Fortune 500 clients to bring innovation to market. She also has designed for Herman Miller. She used to identify herself as a...
In this episode, John Berry talks about a fascinating concept called “Theory Fastball,” which was conceived by Max De Pree, one of the sons of D.J. De Pree, the founder of Herman Miller, who became CEO in 1980....
George's Thoughts on Re-designing a Public School Cafeteria's Lunchroom Experience George Aye thinks it's important that his students work with populations that they normally don't "bump" into -- what he referred to as those who are "underserved." He is happy he has a job as a tenured track assistant...
David Evancho, talks about the greatest lesson he learned from taking a design class with George Aye. And it's an easy one to learn -- if you understand how important it is to have a diverse and collaborative team when working on a design project. Listen...
David Evancho, one of George Aye's students, has used Design Thinking in his freelance work, and it's given him confidence in his work because he trusts the process. He gives an example from his current job about how this manifests itself. I also wondered how George's work...
David Evancho was one of George Aye's students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Carlos Briceno interviewed David to find out what they learned as designers from taking George's class. What Evancho, who is now living and working in Vermont, found out in the class...
Mildred Friedman loves the world of Design. Her career is proof of that. She was the editor of the influential Design Quarterly and was the Walker Art Center's design curator for much of the 1970s and 1980s. She was renown for her groundbreaking exhibits, one of which included Nelson/Eames/Girard/Propst: The Design...
John Berry had the great fortune to interact with some talented designers, including Charles Eames, George Nelson and Bill Stumpf. He learned many things from them, but one of the biggest impressions he got is that designers want to make the world better. It's not...
In part two of my interview with John Berry, we talk about one of the most important concepts in Design Thinking—the immense value of discovering and meeting the needs of people....