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Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success."

Design Thinking is an iterative and non-linear process that consists of 5 phases: 1. Empathise with Your Users, 2. Define the Problem and Interpret the Results, 3. Ideate, 4. Prototype and 5. Test. It is a creative problem-solving approach that allows us to look at problems from different angles and come up with new and innovative solutions. It encourages us to think outside of the box, challenge assumptions and redefine problems in order to create more meaningful solutions. It also helps us to gain insights which can inform our understanding of the problem and help us determine the parameters of the problem, enabling us to see alternative solutions that may not have been available with our previous level of understanding. With this process, designers can help us systematically extract, teach, learn and apply human-centered techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way.

What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular? | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Jeanne Liedtka

Design thinking is a social technology that helps innovators overcome their own biases and work collaboratively to create solutions that have improved outcomes. It encourages the emergence of fresh ideas through a focused inquiry, and provides structure to the innovation process. It involves seven activities such as immersion in the customer's experience and creating basic, low-cost artifacts to capture the essential features of the proposed user experience. Design thinking also helps teams break free of human tendencies that get in the way of innovation, and fosters alignment and clarity on make-or-break assumptions that enable meaningful experiments.

Why Design Thinking Works

Great Learning

Design thinking is a process of creative problem-solving that is used to solve complex problems in any field. It is a user-centered approach that begins with understanding the user and their needs. Design thinking is popular because it is a collaborative process and encourages creativity and experimentation. It can be used to solve a variety of problems, such as developing new products or services, improving customer experience, redesigning or streamlining business processes, generating new ideas for marketing or branding campaigns, creating better user interfaces or experiences for digital products or websites, and developing strategies for social change. Great Learning is an ed-tech company that offers comprehensive, industry-relevant programs to help people unleash their creativity and knowledge and excel in their Data Science career.

Which Problems can Design Thinking to help us Solve? | Medium

Design thinking is a problem-solving methodology that employs analytical, synthetic, divergent and convergent thinking to create a wide number of potential solutions and then narrow these down to a “best fit” solution. It is used by designers to add value through design solutions. Visual representation of the design thinking process can also be used to help convey ideas and abstract thought processes. The design thinking process consists of defining the problem, researching, ideation, prototyping, choosing, implementing, and testing. The principles of design thinking include human, ambiguity, re-design, and tangibility.

Design Thinking, Essential Problem Solving 101- It’s More Than Scientific | Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)

Pedro Marques

This content is about how to apply design thinking in a real-world project. It describes the process of a group of students at Hyper Island used to tackle a client brief, outlining both the problem and the solution. It also explains the impact of design thinking on teams and presents design thinking as a method to identify and solve real problems. Additionally, it explores its applicability concerning human-centered design and its tools and processes. Finally, it discusses the ethical implications of using design thinking.

Design Thinking: creating value through problem-solving. | by Pedro Marques | UX Collective

This content is about the differences between Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design. Design Thinking is a more innovative approach to problem solving that puts humans at the center of the development process. It is divided into six phases and emphasizes creativity and innovation. Human-Centered Design, on the other hand, is a more structured approach that focuses on usability and user experience. It is divided into four phases and is described and defined in an official standard. Both approaches are complementary and should be used together for best results.

In this step you'll learn about optimism and how it can shape our future. Optimism is defined as a hopefulness and confidence about the future or successful outcome of something. Anchoring our thoughts to optimism can create moments that cultivate our daily encounters. Without optimism, we can become realist and limit our thoughts to past experiences. Greatness is created through the lens of change and the willingness to dream, so build your future through the lens of optimism and watch amazing things find their way into your life.

This content is about the Iterative Design Thinking Process, which is a process of repeating a process to generate sequential outcomes with the aim to come out with a better version with every successive repetition. It is used by designers, project managers, startups, and more to create products and solutions. The content also talks about why iteration is important, when to stop iterating, and the power of a growth mindset.

This article is about the Creative Confidence approach, an evolution of the Design Thinking paradigm. It focuses on how organizations can use this approach to nurture mindsets and shape their organizational culture to enable transformation. It discusses the various domains that the Creative Confidence approach is applicable to, such as Direction, People, Solution, Culture, and Organization and Processes. It also provides insights into the percentage of annual revenues obtained from adopting the Creative Confidence approach.

This content is about navigating ambiguity in design and how to do it effectively. It discusses four mindsets for navigating uncertainty: childlike curiosity, thinking like a scientist, systems thinking, and growth mindset. It also provides 8 tactics for tackling ambiguous projects.

This content is about designing in ambiguity and the tools needed to navigate it. It references the story of building the Bunch App, a startup whose mission has always been to help teams collaborate better together. It discusses the importance of research, contextual research, visual synthesis, and testing assumptions. It also mentions the importance of understanding the purpose behind a product and the need to set constraints.

In this step you'll learn about intelligent failure and how it can be leveraged to create value in uncertain environments. Intelligent failure is a concept coined by Duke University's Sim Sitkin, which involves learning from failure to create substantial value. Organizations must create a climate that encourages intelligent risk taking and doesn't punish any failures that result, in order to make the most of intelligent failure. Furthermore, initiatives should be designed to make the consequences of failure modest and to ensure that any failure happens quickly.

Design Thinking is an iterative and non-linear process used by designers to solve problems and create desirable solutions for users. It involves 6 distinct phases: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test and implement. Research is a continuous process throughout the design thinking process, conducted before the production, during the process, and after the product delivery. Storyboard prototypes are used to compare different solutions and to get feedback from users. After the product has reached the users, feedback is used to improve the product and ensure the empathy of the product.

This content is about the importance of Empathize in the Design Thinking process. Empathize is the first stage in the design thinking process, and helps to develop an understanding of the user's needs, emotions, goals and motivations. The Interaction Design Foundation provides a course on Design Thinking: The Beginner's Guide which covers the fundamental phases and methods in design thinking. Through this course, you will also learn how to use Empathy Maps to sum up learning from engagements with people in the field of design research. Additionally, the course provides exercises to help you take your first steps as a design thinking practitioner.

This content is about the Define stage in the Design Thinking process. It covers topics such as methods for synthesising raw data into a meaningful and usable body of knowledge, how to define a problem statement, and how to use methods such as empathy mapping, space saturate and group, and "How Might We" questions to spark ideation sessions. It also explains the relationship between analysis and synthesis and how they take place throughout all stages of the Design Thinking process. Lastly, it introduces the Why-How Laddering process, which starts with asking Why to work out How to solve the specific problem or design challenge.

In the ideation phase of the Design Thinking process, you'll explore and come up with as many ideas as possible related to a particular design challenge. Ideation is a judgement-free zone, and should help you stumble upon that groundbreaking solution that your users have been missing. To prepare for an ideation session, you can create a list of "how might we" questions related to your problem statement and introduce a change of scenery. Popular ideation techniques include Reverse Thinking, Gamestorming, Storyboarding, Mindmapping, and SCAMPER.

In this step you'll learn about low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototyping. Low-fidelity prototyping is considered the more basic of the two categories and can be made of wood, paper or plastic. High-fidelity prototyping looks much closer to the end result and can be a 3D plastic model or a depiction of the product made in Sketch or Adobe Illustrator. Prototypes allow designers to think about their solutions as a tangible product rather than an abstract idea and testing with a prototype can save a business energy and large costs. Eight common ways to prototype are sketches and diagrams, paper interfaces, storyboards, Lego prototypes, role-playing, physical models, Wizard of Oz prototypes and user-driven prototypes.

In this article, we'll cover the fundamentals of Design Thinking Phase 5 - How to Test Effectively. We'll discuss what a user test is, why it is important, when to conduct usability testing, and best practices for user testing. Testing provides necessary evidence of intuition and helps designers to alter products and services where required. There are many steps to conducting a user test, such as creating a test plan, recruiting participants, performing the test, and analyzing the results. User testing should happen on every project to reduce risk and save time and money. Lastly, we'll discuss some guidelines when planning a test, such as letting users compare alternatives and asking users to talk through the experience.

This article is part of a series about Design Thinking. It focuses on the Refine phase, the second to last step in Autodesk's Design Thinking process. It reviews the importance of validating the design solution against goals, and offers three suggestions on how to refine the design. It also provides exercises to help hone Refine skills, such as the Green Space: Urban Planning project. Finally, it encourages readers to read about the Solution phase of Design Thinking.

In this path, you will learn:
- What is design thinking
- What is the design thinking process
- What are the design thinking principles

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	1		What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular? \| Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)	Interaction Design	interaction-design.org	15m
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	2		Why Design Thinking Works	Jeanne Liedtka	hbr.org	10m
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	3		Which Problems can Design Thinking to help us Solve? \| Medium	Great Learning	medium.com	5m
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	4		Design Thinking, Essential Problem Solving 101- It’s More Than Scientific \| Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)	Interaction Design	interaction-design.org	10m
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	5		Design Thinking: creating value through problem-solving. \| by Pedro Marques \| UX Collective	Pedro Marques	uxdesign.cc	10m
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Design thinking guide

Tseard Eeltink

Design thinker

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