Design thinking is a creative and collaborative approach to problem-solving that puts the needs and desires of the users at the center of the process. It involves empathizing with the users, defining the problem, ideating possible solutions, prototyping and testing them, and implementing the most effective one. Design thinking can be used to solve pressing…

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw I remember reading this quote for the first time when I was still a student on campus, and it made me feel both…

When I think of design, I don’t just see colors and shapes; I see the mama mboga of Kenya balancing baskets of fruit on their heads like wearable sculptures. I see the fishermen of Lamu weaving torn nets into tools of survival, stitch by stubborn stitch. Having visited South Africa in 2024, through the stories…