Often dismissed as a ‘soft’ discipline, it’s actually the most practical route to value creation. We have a growing problem ...

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 ...

What design choices make a housing community truly livable? In a recent HelloNation article, Robert “Bob” Morgan of Morgan ...

Human-centered design has generally been understood to mean putting yourself in the shoes of users and building a product that recognizes their needs. Castillo knows this from personal experience. She ...

What is our vision of public spaces from the past? Consider, for instance, a park—arguably the most iconic example of this typology. It is an environment designed with winding paths and rest areas, ...

Innovation in local government is often thought of in terms of efficiency or cost savings. But this focus leaves out an equally important one -- a focus on how residents experience government programs ...

The architectural practice has always been rooted in what people now call “human-centered design”. The term, coined by Irish engineer Mike Cooley in his 1987 publication “Human-Centred Systems” ...

On March 11, the novel coronavirus disease was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Now that it’s October I’m mostly embracing the uncertainty and vast changes of the pandemic, as ...

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 ...

Human-centered design is crucial in healthcare—but it’s often invisible. Rooted in systems thinking, it considers the broader ecosystems that shape patient needs. Design can make or break a patient’s ...