"While the projects had wildly different end products, they both had a similar starting point: focusing on how to ease people's lives. And that is a central lesson at the school, which is pushing students to rethink the boundaries for many industries.
At the heart of the school's courses is developing what David Kelley, one of the school's founders, calls an empathy muscle. Inside the school's cavernous space - which seems like a nod to the Silicon Valley garages of lore - the students are taught to forgo computer screens and spreadsheets and focus on people."
First of all, I'm typing this comment from my new iPad! Secondly, here is my favorite line: one emphasis is to get students to leave campus and observe how people deal w life's messy problems.
Finally, I think we could write this article about MVPS I design lab.