HMW get hired to do the work we want to do?

What if work was about pursuing your strengths and passions to serve the team and others? This post was inspired by James Victore and Ben Barry discussing how to build your own career in this 99u talk: One of Barry’s work mantras is, “Get hired to do the...

Designing For Impact | Beyond Prototypes

How do you design for a user that lives on less than $4 a day? Krista Donaldson the CEO of D-Rev, short for Design Revolution a non-profit medical design firm, leads teams to develop low-cost and shippable prosthetics and medical devices. 99U awarded her the 2014 Alva...

Where Do You Go To Create?

This post is inspired by Sarah Lewis’s 99U talk about an innovator’s private domain. These are physical and mental places or spaces where innovators retreat to hone their craft. Specifically, Lewis drills down deep into the inner space creatives retreat...

Innovation Means Building a Safe Space for Failure

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to co-design and co-produce #fuse14 at MVPS. #fuse14 is a conference that introduces educators to the DEEPdt methodology of design thinking Developed by Mary Cantwell (@SciTechyEDU). Mary is also the founder of dtk12chat, an...