The Design Thinking Outcomes Collaborative is an international, interdisciplinary team of design thinking experts and practitioners from university, industry, and community-based settings.

The Collaborative aims to provide an open-access set of tools and resources that researchers new to design thinking can use to advocate for and implement a human centered design framework into their practice.

During its first year, the Collaborative has established three working groups with the goal of sharing findings in a public forum in spring 2025.

  1. Articulating the value proposition for human-centered design in research projects
  2. Defining and operationalizing the standards for rigorous HCD research processes
  3. Generating proactive and effective communication strategies for HCD work

The Design Thinking Outcomes Collaborative is led by a steering committee based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tulane University, and fhi360.

For more information about DTOC, and to stay updated on our work, please fill out our DTOC inquiry form.

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