The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Todd Bracher As the ...

Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury once said, “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” To me, as a design leader, this perfectly expresses the emotions we are ...

In today's enterprise landscape, software development often resembles a game of telephone. Business users articulate needs, and—after those needs go through layers of marketing, product and ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Joe Doucet The world has ...

For a long time, the architectural world seemed convinced that the only way to make a building feel healthy was to cover it in actual plants. The star of healthy architecture was the living building.

This clear, organized process can help teams break free of a variety of human tendencies that get in the way of innovation. For business leaders, the struggle between efficiency and innovation is ...

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that ...

Consumers are returning to the physical store for all the advantages it offers: the ability to touch, feel and experience the brand — and most importantly, be a part of the brand’s community or “tribe ...

In the dynamic world of marketing, the fusion of design and strategy is fundamental to successful branding and communication. Design is more than just an art—it's a powerful tool that, when wielded ...

Design thinking is, at its core, a process of empathizing with the user. The methodology has been successfully used in many industries to drive human-centred innovation, resulting in the creation of ...