Human-centered design is believed to have been born out of the Stanford University design program in 1958—when Professor John E. Arnold suggested that engineering design should be human-centered and ...

As businesses race to adopt AI and emerging tech, many are struggling to hire people who actually know how to use it. USC’s ...

The AI landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, reflecting the accelerating speed of innovation across sectors. The potential integration of OpenAI’s models into Google’s Chrome browser is an ...

Human-centered design is crucial in healthcare—but it’s often invisible. Rooted in systems thinking, it considers the broader ecosystems that shape patient needs. Design can make or break a patient’s ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

The course covers the fundamentals of the human-centered research process and prepares students to plan, design, and conduct their own studies. Students in this course will work alongside their ...

The term “human-centered design,” or HCD, came into vogue more than a decade ago as a way to describe a new approach to the delivery of government services and to elevate government activities overall ...

A typical design process looks like this: You get a bunch of requirements based on incremental improvements to an existing product or service, build the new offer, and ship it out to the world and ...

While billions of dollars are spent on consumer insights to ensure that our potato chips are crispy, powerful data to fuel human-centered design are rarely applied by the social sector. An example of ...

Only one minor at Dartmouth finds students building roller coasters into the wee hours of the morning and taking over dorm common rooms as they cut up pieces of paper into as many different square ...

“Smart tech” is an umbrella term we created to describe advanced digital technologies that make decisions for people, instead of people. It includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subsets and ...

What is our vision of public spaces from the past? Consider, for instance, a park—arguably the most iconic example of this typology. It is an environment designed with winding paths and rest areas, ...