Thomas Lockwood

Thomas Lockwood is founding partner of Lockwood Resource, an international recruiting firm specializing in design and innovation leadership, and past president of DMI, the Design Management Institute. He is one of the few people in the world with a PhD in design management, and is recognized as a thought leader in integrating design and innovation into business and building great design organizations.

Innovation By Design

To Attract Top Talent, Approach Recruiting Like A Design Challenge

Hiring creative leaders is notoriously difficult. To lure them in, you need a game plan.

To Attract Top Talent, Approach Recruiting Like A Design Challenge

The Anatomy Of A Great UX Design Leader

Seven key traits the best UX design leaders share

The Anatomy Of A Great UX Design Leader

The Anatomy Of A Great UX Design Leader

Seven key traits the best UX design leaders share

The Anatomy Of A Great UX Design Leader

6 Key Ways Design Thinkers Approach Problems

How design thinkers think.

6 Key Ways Design Thinkers Approach Problems

6 Traits Of Great Design Leaders

Being a good designer is only a start.

6 Traits Of Great Design Leaders

5 Key Trends In Design Leadership

Design finally has a seat at the table. Here’s what is next.

5 Key Trends In Design Leadership

Design Leadership: What’s Next?

Innovation By Design

Why Are Design Firms Stagnating?

How To Go From Junior Designer To Chief Design Officer

Innovation By Design

5 Trends Spotted At The Olympics Of Product Design

7 Ideas For Improving Carry-On Luggage

Innovation By Design

What Good Does Design Do For Business?

Here Thomas Lockwood proposes the Design Mix, a set of principles that define how design adds value to business.

What Good Does Design Do For Business?

Innovation By Design

As Design Talent Rises, Standing Out Is No Longer Just About Design

Innovation By Design

Other Governments Lend Their Might to Design. Why Can’t America?

06.17.10 | 12:40 am

Solving the Design Paradox: Budgets Come From the Top Down, But Design Happens From the Bottom Up

How Do You Make Good Design Happen? Follow the Money

06.15.10 | 12:30 am

How Do You Make Good Design Happen? Follow the Money

Solving the Design Paradox: Budgets Come from the Top Down, But Design Happens from the Bottom Up

Impact

Why we should pay people to take the COVID-19 vaccine

The international poll monitors watching the election say Trump’s fraud claims are baseless

Abolish the Electoral College? We could also just work around it

News

Meme makers enlist Sesame Street’s Count von Count in the fight to tally every vote

T-Mobile gives cord-cutters what they want, and media companies aren’t happy about it

Snapchat soars in India after TikTok ban as Snap stock soars at home

Co.Design

U.S. election maps are wildly misleading, so this designer fixed them

Routers are black boxes in every way. This redesign makes them a sculptural centerpiece

The Gap’s hopelessly naive hoodie GIF is the Kendall Jenner Pepsi moment of the 2020 election

Work Life

I work in the speaking industry. Here’s why a refreshing viewpoint is everything

How to carve out ‘me time’ when work never seems to end

Why serendipitous interactions in the office made us feel productive