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The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design is your textbook to practicing human-centered design for social innovation. Written for both new and experienced practitioners, the Field Guide reveals IDEO.org's process with the key mindsets that underpin how we think about design for the social sector, 57 clear-to-use design methods, worksheets and case studies of human-centered design in action.
Business Model Generation
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game-changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization.
Designing For & With Girls
For adolescents, the journey to accessing reproductive health services can be complex and awash with barriers. To meet these challenges, IDEO.org employs a human-centered design approach to understand the context in which girls live and co-create solutions with them.
By partnering with leading sexual and reproductive health organizations across Sub-Saharan Africa, we’ve unlocked innovative new ways to keep girls at the center of programs. This book captures real-life stories, tools, and perspectives that can help guide practitioners in creating services tailored to adolescent girls.
Design Thinking for Educators
The toolkit ofers you new ways to be intentional and collaborative when you are designing new solutions for your classroom, school, and community. It hones your skills and empowers you to create desirable solutions.
In this toolkit, we have laid out a series of steps that can help you develop new, innovative solutions designed with people at the center.
Virtual Design Thinking Workshops
Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, and Larry Leifer are among the most influential personalities in the global Design Thinking community. Together, they have published the international bestseller "The Design Thinking Playbook,” in which they describe the mindful digital transformation of teams, organizations, and companies Building on the success of the playbook, they have also created "The Design Thinking Toolbox.
The templates can be used both in a physical space or in a virtual collaboration. In this new guide, "Virtual Design Thinking Workshops,” the three experts share .their experience conducting virtual and hybrid Design Thinking workshops.