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Apologies for tooting IDEO’s horn here, but I am quite proud that this week the award-winning American news program 60 Minutes aired a profile of David Kelley and IDEO.

Here’s another design thinking tip from Change By Design: Make it visual.Some things are hard to describe in words.

Great designers don’t just do design, they live design.

If courage is an accumulation of small steps, one way to nurture your design courage is to join OpenIDEO—a digital innovation community composed of 42,000+ creative thinkers around the globe engaged in solving real-world challenges for social and environmental impact.

One way to get back to basics in 2013 is to focus on behavior change that positively impacts health.

Humanity spends billions every year designing, developing, and marketing new things.

Recently I posted one design thinking tip from Change By Design: Once a Day, Deeply Observe the Ordinary.

Most prognostications about the future of work have explored how technology is disrupting work patterns or enabling new forms of work.

Recently I recommended that you watch David Kelley's TED talk on Creative Confidence, one of 10 talks chosen by TED for a playlist about the beauty—and difficulty—of being creative.Since then, Harvard Business Review magazine has published an article by Tom and David Kelley that expands on the concept, "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence," along with an audio interview on "The Four Fears Blocking You From Great Ideas."As David and Tom describe it, creative confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough ideas, combined with the courage to act.

Design thinking has its origins in the training and the professional practice of designers.