After Studying Autism for More than 20 Years, This Researcher Says These Two Elements Are the Key to Innovative and Effective Problem-Solving

For the past 12 years, a dear friend and I have made a pact to spend a week or two during the summer taking classes or participating in something that has impact and can help us better understand the world we live in with an eye toward making it a better place. One of the most profound summer experiences we had was at the design school at Stanford, commonly referred to as the “d.school,” where we learned to identify problems and work on ways to solve them through design thinking, which gives a solution-focused approach to problem-solving using known steps that can help not only to solve a problem, but solve the correct problem.

We attended the d.school’s “Design Thinking Bootcamp,” where for a week we learned the design thinking process and then worked on real-world problems. During that week we teamed up with people from all over the world.

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