The Latest

  • Podcast • Workplace

    Always. Be. Curious. Design Thinking and Sales Unite for Extraordinary Results

    Sales and design thinking in the same sentence?

  • News • Workplace

    CoDesign Collaborative LIVE: The 5 Growing Pains of Global Innovation Recap

    In June, our CoDesign Collaborative LIVE event focused on the collaborative challenges that companies can face as they grow and change over time, and some tactics that businesses can employ to ease these “growing pains of global innovation.”

  • Blog • Community

    Pride & Design: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Designers

    June is Pride Month, a time when the LGBTQIA+ community comes together (whether it’s virtually or in person) to celebrate identity and community.

    “Progress” Pride Flag by Daniel Quasar

  • Podcast • Education

    Infusing Equity in K-12 Curriculum Design, In the Classroom & at Home

    Every teacher is a curriculum designer, creating experiences for people to understand and learn. In this episode, we explore curriculum design with an important lens: equity.

  • News

    Juneteenth is Now a Holiday at the CoDesign Collaborative

    June 19 commemorates the ending of slavery in the U.S.

  • Community • Issue 015

    Never Standing Still

    Whether Adèle Santos is transforming the MIT School of Architecture and Planning into a world-renowned institution, designing clothes and coats, creating public housing, re-building cities that have fallen victim to natural disasters, gutting and re-imaging her warehouse home that was once the site of a children’s circus, starting an architecture school, or merely being the wonderfully stylish and magnanimous force of energy that she exudes, she is never standing still.

  • Environment • Issue 015

    Our Future World

    At Arup, I work as a foresight practitioner, where my job is to consider the future of the built environment and how today’s designs can make an impact; as well as thinking about the future impact we want to make to consider how we can design things today to achieve a future that is fit for us all.

  • Workplace • Issue 015

    Design Thinking for Rocket Scientists

    In the 1960s, the average age of a NASA employee was 27. As a brand new agency with a once-in-history mission to put a human on the moon and bring them back to Earth safely, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration was moving fast and loaded with young talent. This is where we get the term moon shot, meaning a plan to innovate quickly and achieve something big that was previously thought impossible.

  • Community • Issue 015

    Gliding to Success

    The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), known locally as simply "the T," is the leading public transportation provider in the metro- Boston area. Before the majority of the city was restricted to the walkable radius around their homes, the MBTA and thoughtbot partnered for a digital communications project on the T's most complex line, the Green Line. The Green Line is a light rail system, with multiple branches and a two branch extension currently underway.

  • Workplace • Issue 015

    Legendary Streetwear

    In February of 2005, the shoe that catapulted sneaker culture to the masses was finally released. While not designed to be a hyped icon, this new shoe, named the Pigeon Dunk, was one of the most sought after silhouettes, and the limited number of pairs available caused chaotic scenes to develop in New York’s Lower East Side.