The best way to learn about Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design is to do it. If you’re interested in finding out how to make that happen, get in touch. In the meantime, here are a few resources to get you started.

Articles:

• Design Thinking for Social Innovation  Stanford Social Innovation Review, Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt

• Decisions by Design: Stop Deciding, Start Designing Rotman Magazine, Colin Raney and Ryan Jacoby

• Design Thinking Harvard Business Review , Tim Brown

• Informing Our Intuition: Design Research for Radical Innovation Rotman Magazine, Jane Fulton Suri, July 9, 2008

• Can Designers Help Deliver Better Services? Fran Samalionis, July 3, 2009

Blogs

• Design – Good
  http://www.good.is/design
  How can we use design to solve our biggest problems?

• Austin Center for Design 
  http://www.ac4d.com/home/news/
  Austin Center for Design exists to transform society through design and design education.

• Stanford’s Social Innovation Review
  http://www.ssireview.org/blog/

• Design for Public Policy: Policy X Blog
  http://publicpolicylab.org/pxd-blog/

• Gamestorming
  http://www.gogamestorm.com/
  A blog that goes with the book about games that are designed to help you get more innovative, creative results in your work. Show you not only how to play them but also how to design them so they fit your own specific work goals.

• Design Thinking
  http://designthinking.ideo.com/
  Thoughts by Tim Brown (CEO of IDEO)

• Putting People First
  http://www.experientia.com/blog/
  Daily insights on user experience, experience design and people-centered innovation

Toolkits

• IDEO Human-Centered Design Toolkit
  http://www.ideo.com/by-ideo/human-centered-design-toolkit
  The Human-Centered Design (HCD) Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America but has helpful frameworks for anyone.

• Frog Design’s Collective Action Toolkit
  http://designmind.frogdesign.com/2016/03/the-collective-action-toolkit-quick-start-guide/
  The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that use design thinking tools to enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community.

• Stanford’s D-School Methods
  http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/
  More of a cook book than a text book, and more of a constant work-in-progress than a polished and permanent piece.

• Service Design Toolkit
  http://www.servicedesigntoolkit.org/
  This toolkit is an introduction to the methodology of service design.

• Business Model Canvas
  http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/canvas
  The Business Model Canvas, is a strategic management and entrepreneurial tool. It allows you to describe, design, challenge, invent, and pivot your business model

• Ethnography Primer
  http://www.aiga.org/ethnography-primer/
  A quick guide to using an ethnographic approach to understanding people in order to inform design.