Lime Design | Catalyzing Innovation

Oracle Education Foundation

ThinkQuest, sponsored by Oracle Education Foundation, is an award winning online learning platform that supports over 400,000 teachers and students in 43 countries and works with more than 80 global partners. Oracle Education Foundation engaged Lime Design to support their efforts to redesign the ThinkQuest user experience.

The project began with a 2-day high-energy workshop at Stanford University’s Wallenberg Hall, where 25 Oracle Education Foundation executives were introduced to the design thinking process. They learned how to brainstorm and build prototypes, and honed their skills as empathetic and insightful observers.

In the next phase, they applied the process to redesign the ThinkQuest online platform, led by Lime Design expert coaches, and building on a series of ethnographic interviews conducted by our ethnography team with ThinkQuest users around the globe.

“It was an incredibly useful experience for my whole team to get out of our everyday day to day ways of thought and really learn about design thinking. It really gave us a fresh perspective that we are going to carry forward into our work, and an infusion of a completely different kind of energy.”

- Colleen Cassity
Founder and Executive Director,
Oracle Education Foundation

ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL

EAST PALO ALTO PHOENIX
ACADEMY

ORACLE EDUCATION
FOUNDATION

MICROSOFT

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY

Brad Saffer, Oracle Education Foundation Vice President, describes how the workshop impacted his team’s efforts to innovate.

Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Citrix, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Financial Engines, Tech Credit Union, Scottish Enterprise, Community Gatepath, First Nations’ Futures, Epicor, Aspire Charter Management Organization, Woodside Priory School, Cate School, Town School for Boys, Brandeis Hillel Day School, Mississippi State University, The National Writing Project, Santa Catalina School, Head Royce School, Marin Country Day School, Hillbrook School, Capuchino High School, Downtown College Prep, Cate School, Julia Morgan School for Girls, The East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy and Sea Crest School.