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Grow your innovation capabilities by applying creative problem solving to different aspects of your organization and moving people toward new ways of working. Curious about creating a more innovative work environment for your team? Swipe through for methods you can try! Find more resources, activities, and articles at: https://lnkd.in/gtmMYqhF

New from IDEO U! Applied Prototyping with Al Certificate. From lo-fi to AI: Make ideas real. Certificate Program Outcomes: ✅Test ideas instead of guessing. ✅Explore more directions with Al. ✅Build what people actually need. Learn more and enroll today at: https://lnkd.in/g-BgqwPe

I just finished IDEO's Human-Centered Strategy program. As a Product Designer, I've spent years leading experiments and conducting research, and I took this program to build on that and sharpen how I design and activate strategy. The biggest gain is how I lead teams to make effective decisions that move the business, a clear understanding of what we want to accomplish, what has to be true for the strategy to work, and how to get everyone behind it so it gets done. That's where my new insights make a difference in leading teams to deliver a strategy that's clear, shared, and built to make products people love and businesses can grow on.

Jenn Maer is our Storytelling for Influence course instructor as well as a designer, creative director, brand strategist, and storyteller. In a new TEDxAsheville talk, Jenn explores How to make new friends (without the social anxiety) using #designthinking to make friends or deepen existing friendships. Watch on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g2quCvDh

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The IDEO U All-Access Pass gives you seven on-demand leadership, innovation and AI courses through the end of 2026. You can work through each course start to finish or jump straight to the lessons that help most when a challenge lands on your desk.   🔷 Discover seven common work problems that the pass can help with right now: https://lnkd.in/gMEViayB 🔷 Purchase your All-Access Pass today: https://lnkd.in/gyQ4JFJP

I have just completed the Human-Centered Service Design course with IDEO U, marking a significant step as I transition into Service Design. A key takeaway for me is that effective service design goes beyond journey maps, touchpoints, or frameworks. It is also about fostering relationships, alignment, and shared understanding that enable better services to come to life. I want to express my gratitude to Gonzalo Perez Paredes and the teaching team for providing such a thoughtful and practical learning experience, as well as to the wonderful individuals I met along the way 😊 Stay tuned, I’ll be sharing my service design project in a next post.

When we crave certainty, it usually shows up in one of three disguises. Simone Stolzoff calls them the certainty traps. Swipe through to learn how to counter them. Read the full story on the blog: https://lnkd.in/gVJE3dPg

AI is not my replacement. AI is part of my access system. As a neurodivergent person with dyslexia, I often think in patterns, associations, tensions, and connections before I can organize those ideas into language that others can easily follow. AI has helped me close that gap. It gives me a place to think out loud, organize complex ideas, translate across disciplines, and communicate with more clarity. It does not replace my judgment, expertise, or lived experience. It helps me express them more fully. That distinction matters. In education and ABA spaces, I have heard AI described as “cheating” or inappropriate. My experience has been more nuanced. When used responsibly, AI can be an accommodation, a thinking partner, and a creative scaffold. It can help make different kinds of thinking more visible. That is one of my biggest takeaways from completing the IDEO U AI x Design Thinking Certificate Program. For my course project, I applied AI and design thinking to a challenge I often see in schools: how middle and high school educators make in-the-moment decisions when students disengage, while still preserving learning, regulation, dignity, and educator capacity. Through observation, interviews, synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and iteration, my work shifted from “How do we manage student behavior?” to a deeper question: What classroom conditions, adult responses, peer dynamics, and task demands are shaping this moment? That work led to a prototype called Read the Loop, and then to a practical workshop direction: 👉 Find the friction. 👉 Shift one learning condition. 👉 Return to learning. What I’m carrying forward is both personal and professional: AI can help me organize my thoughts in order to communicate more fully, and design thinking can help me turn that thinking into practical tools for schools. My commitment is to use AI responsibly, transparently, and human-centeredly: to support clearer communication, deeper problem solving, and more humane learning environments. #IDEOU #AI #DesignThinking #HumanCenteredDesign #Education #StudentEngagement #Neurodiversity #ProfessionalLearning #GenerativeAI

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