Human-centered design is believed to have been born out of the Stanford University design program in 1958—when Professor John E. Arnold suggested that engineering design should be human-centered and ...

Design transformation is a “human-centered process,” says Fast Company Executive Board member Andy Vitale, allowing companies to look internally and externally at their clients’ pain points and ...

Human-centered design, also known as design thinking, is a creative problem solving approach practiced in a wide variety of industry sectors. It uses human-centered techniques to truly understand a ...

Over the past several years, the college student population has become increasingly diverse. In fact, 56 percent of college students are first-generation students, a significant jump from 37 percent ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. When addressing equity in public education, we tend to focus on curriculum, funding and ...

The employee experience continues to remain a top priority for organizations. Many are embarking on transformational journeys to shift the structure, approach and culture of their human resources ...

Only one minor at Dartmouth finds students building roller coasters into the wee hours of the morning and taking over dorm common rooms as they cut up pieces of paper into as many different square ...

A typical design process looks like this: You get a bunch of requirements based on incremental improvements to an existing product or service, build the new offer, and ship it out to the world and ...

User-Centered Design — or, as it is more commonly known, User Experience Design (UX) — has risen into prominence within the past decade, becoming one of Brandeis GPS’s most popular graduate degrees.

What exactly is people-centered design? Harvard Business School defines the concept as a “problem-solving technique that puts real people at the center of the development process.” This can help us ...