Human-centered design is believed to have been born out of the Stanford University design program in 1958—when Professor John E. Arnold suggested that engineering design should be human-centered and ...

Human-centered design has generally been understood to mean putting yourself in the shoes of users and building a product that recognizes their needs. Castillo knows this from personal experience. She ...

Often dismissed as a ‘soft’ discipline, it’s actually the most practical route to value creation. We have a growing problem ...

A new master’s program focused on human-centered healthcare design aims to bring care delivery back to basics, sparking change “at the human level,” according to Stacey Chang, executive director of ...

Innovation in local government is often thought of in terms of efficiency or cost savings. But this focus leaves out an equally important one -- a focus on how residents experience government programs ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

Scott Moore, golf product manager at Garmin International, joins the Modgolf Podcast to share how Garmin's 'human-centered design' approach leads to creation of innovative golf products that customers ...

The content featured in this article is brand produced. Diana Rhoten smiles as she looks up at the ceiling of her New York home office. She’s paused in mid thought as she recalls the details of a ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

While billions of dollars are spent on consumer insights to ensure that our potato chips are crispy, powerful data to fuel human-centered design are rarely applied by the social sector. An example of ...

In a perfect world, we’d create products and services with the sole purpose of helping people. This altruistic goal is often pitted against a profit-first approach, where sales targets run the show ...