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Center for Integrated Design Lecturer Jared Huke writes about teaching an Intro to Design Thinking course to non-designers. 

School of Design and Creative Technologies Doreen Lorenzo writes about “Designing Business and The Future” before moderating a panel of the same name at the 2017 Techonomy NYC conference.

Brooks Protzmann writes about his experiences teaching design thinking to non-designers through his class in the Center for Integrated Design in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Undergraduate Caroline Rock talks about her experiences taking classes offered by the Center for Integrated Design and why they inspired her to change her major in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.

Doreen Lorenzo spoke at SXSWedu about "Design Thinking as a Core Fundamental in Education." Here, she shares more about her talk and why teaching empathy is so important in higher education. Lorenzo is the executive director of the Center for Integrated Design at The University of Texas at Austin.

The Daily Texan shares how the Center for Integrated Design at The University of Texas at Austin is offering courses to students from all majors to learn how to use creativity and design communication as a part of their everyday lives.

UT's College of Fine Arts Dean Doug Dempster writes about why academia should embrace design thinking in the classroom, not only to help students prepare for jobs, but also in pursuit of understanding of what it means to be human.

This past semester, in UT’s first Introduction to Design Thinking course, students from across the university learned the principles of design thinking and applied them to real-world problems while working in project teams. Beginning with campus life topics such as health and wellness, meals, studying, and socializing, each team learned how to frame problems related to their chosen topic, learn about people and their behaviors, and apply those insights to improve products and services through concept prototyping and storytelling.

The Austin American-Statesman profiles Doreen Lorenzo and her work as she leads the Center for Integrated Design and makes design thinking curriculum available to all UT undergraduate students.

Doreen Lorenzo, Clinical Professor of Design and Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Design at The University of Texas at Austin, speaks with thirteen23's founder, Doug Cook, about the challenges and opportunities presented by her new position at UT Austin.