Graduates are emerging from interdisciplinary master’s programs that integrate design, technology, and business. These professionals are trained in “design thinking.” Sure, it’s the latest trendy term to sweep the business world, but it’s a technique that designers and executives alike hope may help to provide a solution to some of the world’s serious challenges. Business Week recently focused on twenty-one recent graduates.
Featured above is Caroline Lu, 32, a 2008 graduate of California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She currently is a designer/researcher at SPARC Design Studio, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Lu works at the Center for Innovation, a department within the Mayo Clinic that looks to improve the patient experience by developing better services for health-care delivery. Using her background as a graphic designer and design thinker—along with her own experience surviving cancer—she applies personal insight and design-driven techniques to come up with new ideas.
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