Agile Culture in Design Strategy

MURAL for educators had a recent presentation by Adam Kallish, which focused on how design can address contemporary complexities at the macroeconomic level.

Work Forward: A Better Way of Working: Webinar Recap

On March 3rd, our own Jim Kalbach was joined by Parker Lee, managing partner at Territory, and Jim Van Over from the Chief Innovation Office at ServiceNow to discuss the Work Forward movement they've started - and how you can be a part of it.

Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action III: Webinar Recap

In our first webinar with Professor Jeanne Liedtka (University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business), she reported on her in-depth research of over 30 organizations who used design thinking in practice -

Meeting Of The Minds: MURAL, Design Thinking, and HR

MURAL took our show on the road to Chicago in August, and worked together with LUMA Institute and other Design Thinking champions to introduce this trend to an underdog department within companies: The Human Resources/People + Culture teams.

Keep Austin Weird - and Human-Centered

"Design thinking isn't just a methodology, it's a mindset." - Idean

Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action II: Webinar Recap

As we make more progress with design thinking and it gains continued adoption within the world's most innovative companies, the urgency of how we measure it grows.

Three Modes of Creative Conversations: Webinar Recap

Conversations matter. We literally build our lives one conversation at a time, but we're also defined by the limits of the conversations we can and can't have.

Make Meaningful Progress Via Remote Design Sprints: Webinar Recap

Design sprints are a great way to bring your team together to focus on a single problem - but what if your team doesn’t have the time or budget to fly everyone to the same location to run a sprint?

ROI of (Remote) Design Thinking: Webinar Recap

It's been a great year for those of us who promote the use of Design Thinking. Change-makers in large organizations, you now have examples and frameworks to make & support business cases.

Using Design Thinking in Your Everyday Work: Webinar Recap

People around the globe have recognized the value of design thinking, yet many are struggling to successfully integrate it into their daily work and work culture.

Evaluating the Impact of Design Thinking in Action: Webinar Recap

Design thinking offers a problem-solving approach widely adopted by the most innovative companies and organizations - but beyond anecdotal success stories, there is little (in-depth) research to validate its actual impact - until now.

5 Best Practices of Remote Design: Webinar Recap

If you think remote collaboration is hard, you’re not alone. Chances are one of these challenges sounds familiar:

Build Experiences, Not Features: Webinar Recap

If you’ve ever been frustrated at the lack of tangible takeaways following a design workshop, you’re not alone. Many teams find that design thinking workshops don’t often lead to real product improvements.

How to Use the LUMA System of Innovation for Everyday Design Thinking: Webinar Recap

Around the world, people are recognizing the value of design thinking for more than just products and services. Yet many organizations have a hard time scaling the methods company-wide, causing innovation to suffer.

MURAL + Hanno Co-Host a Remote Design Thinking Workshop

At present, state-of-the-art technology for design thinking typically consists of sticky notes and flipcharts.

The Art of Opportunity: Interview with Marc Sniukas

All successful companies must eventually answer the same basic question: How do you establish new growth strategies and business opportunities from within your organization?

Applying Design to Business with Justin Lokitz: Webinar Recap

Behind every successful business is innovative strategy. Not just one, but several. Because according to Justin Lokitz, Managing Director at Business Models Inc. and co-author of Design a Better Business, strategy is iterative.

Get to the core of your strategy quicker with the Strategy Blueprint

Strategy is a fuzzy terms that means different things to different people. Sometimes it gets confused with analysis. This includes everything from market size to technical assessments to financial prognosis.

User Storymapping in MURAL, with Houghton Miffln Harcourt

Agile development breaks software development down into small chunks, called user stories. These are short descriptions of a feature from the user’s perspective.

Work Through Any Problem With The Innovators’ Compass

Can you think of times when using a little more “design thinking” in an unexpected challenge, project presentation, or important meeting might have changed your project outcomes?

The Future Of Remote Work With Hyper Island: Event Recap

Recently, MURAL had the pleasure to work with the Digital Media Management student crew 7 at Hyper Island in Manchester. The school is located in the Northern Quarter, known as the city's creative hub.

Designing At Scale Webinar with Doug Powell: Event Recap

Companies are transforming into design-driven organizations. They invest in amazing innovation centers and have top design agencies come in to consult them.

Innovation Knows No Bounds: How Dare to Innovate Stays Connected Over International Waters

Creativity is Serious Business: An Interview with John Cabra

John is an Associate Professor at the Buffalo State International Center for Studies in Creativity. He is part of a team dedicated to researching and teaching the science of creativity.

Designing Events That Matter with Ruud Janssen: Event Recap

Let’s face it: planning a large event is a daunting task. Juggling all of the moving parts and combining them into a successful program is taxing.

Do You Suffer From Workshop Amnesia?

You’ve experienced this before: a creative team comes together for a workshop. Maybe it’s new project or you need to brainstorm new product together. Everyone is stoked, and there’s magic in the air.

Scaling Design Globally @ the Stanford d.school

During the last few weeks I had the pleasure of joining Sam Yep, Chief Design Officer of SAP and a fellow at the Stanford d.school, and his crew, together with Baba Shiv.

Switching Up the Business Model: a Product for Professionals

MURAL is designed for creative professionals. With that in mind, we are tailoring our product and services to optimize working of design work collaboratively.

A Pi-Shaped Product to Think & Design

Earlier this year we started a residency inside IDEO. We were looking forward to pause for a bit and redefine the fundamentals of our business.

Why Brainstorming is Only Half the Battle

We’re not going to tell anyone how to brainstorm. But we may challenge you to think about it a little differently (or at least, to not stop there).

Have a Dialogue With the UI: Lessons from Iron Man

Acting the UI can be a very cool way to prototype an experience.

Getting to Know our Users: Q&A with Bacardo

Today, we present to you a real life MURAL Power User.