Top Design Thinking TED Talks
Discover these top design thinking TED Talks to watch today for advice and tips on applying the process of design thinking to your organization.
Books & Videos
Top Design Thinking Books To Read
Looking for top design thinking books to read? Click here for a list of top Amazon-rated books to improve innovation at your organization.
Design Sprint Videos
The five day sprint format was made popular in the book SPRINT and earlier by Google Ventures. Consider the following design sprint videos a deeper dive into this approach and a quick way to train yourself on this design sprint method. Give it a try if you are working on solving a problem, redesigning an experience for your customers, or new product or service development. See our design sprint training post if you need more!
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky’s Sprint Talk at Google
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky's Sprint Talk at Google: : Insights from the Sprint Masters
Internet of Things for Energy, Utilities, & Smart Connected Homes
Watch the videos, click through the SlideShares, and investigate the top selling smart home devices on Amazon to learn more about the application of the "Internet of Things" (IoT) for smart energy & connected homes.
TED Talks Video: “Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast” by Tom Wujec
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work.
TED Talks Video: “10 myths about psychology: Debunked” by Ben Ambridge
How much of what you think about your brain is actually wrong? In this whistlestop tour of dis-proved science, Ben Ambridge walks through 10 popular ideas about psychology that have been proven wrong — and uncovers a few surprising truths about how our brains really work.
TED Talks Video: How to Manage for Collective Creativity by Linda Hill
What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has studied some of the world's most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing — from everyone in the company, not just the designated "creatives."
TED Talks Video: “What If 3D Printing Was 100x Faster?” by Joseph DeSimone
What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?
TED Talks Video: “How equal do we want the world to be? You’d be surprised” by Dan Ariely
The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.