Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/09/1067821/design-thinking-retrospective-what-went-wrong/

When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At the time, Cornforth was a director at the Edible Schoolyard Project, a nonprofit that uses gardening and cooking in schools to teach and to provide nutritious food.

Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.

MIT Technology Review

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