Design Thinking – Croixstone

Professional Development Opportunity!

Our friends at Wily—a design agency based at Camp North End in Charlotte—are running a Design Sprint Bootcamp on September 11-12. Jake Knapp—creator of Design Sprints and author of NYT bestseller “Sprint“—will lead Day 1 of the two day training. Jake perfected Design Sprints while at GV/Google Ventures helping companies like AirBnB, Slack, Nest, Flatiron Health, and 23andMe solve big challenges. Jeff Grant will be leading Day 2 to cover prototyping and testing. Jeff innovates the retail security experience as head of product and innovation at InVue, has created satellite hardware for NASA, and was former co-founder and director of IDEO’s toy business line where he helped invent new products. Jake and Jeff will walk you step-by-step through the training and will be spilling all of their design and prototyping secrets.

Details are at wilysprints.com and a nice Harvard Business Review article about sprints can be found here.

Is Design Thinking the Hottest New Trend in Banking?

So what is “design thinking?

And just how can it give banks a competitive edge?

Design thinking is about applying the principles of design to the way people interact with the world. Design thinking is a method for practical, creative resolution of problems. It is a form of solution-based thinking with the intent of producing a constructive future result.

Writer Lisa Joyce of The Financial Brand (a digital publication focused on marketing and strategy issues affecting retail banks and credit unions) published a recent article suggesting that banks can gain a competitive edge through using design thinking.

Read the article here.