When exceptional leadership is discussed, luminaries such as Steve Jobs, Henry Ford or Elon Musk are often brought to the forefront. Given the obstacles we are facing today, we should certainly expect both genius and tenacity to be critical assets of leaders in the best and worst of times.

Innovation, as a skill, is not solely reserved for the realm of adults. From a young age, we are all presented with a plethora of thorny issues, and without knowing it, we develop our own unique processes for resolving and innovating around them.

English novelist Mary Shelley once said, “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

Throughout the global pandemic, businesses have been relying on technology and the internet to stay in contact and continue their work remotely. That includes launching innovative projects that use human-centered thinking to empathize, brainstorm and collaborate on new projects. 

Of all the practices fundamental to the theory of human-centered design, prototyping is one of the most crucial. The prototyping stage allows design teams to be on the same page and enables them to explore their options while determining how customers will interact with the product or service in question.