Design Thinking
Design Processes
A problem-solving methodology that emphasizes empathy, creativity, and collaboration to develop innovative and user-centric solutions. Design thinking involves stages such as empathizing, defining the problem, ideating, prototyping, and testing, fostering a human-centered approach to addressing complex challenges.
In practice
Encompasses an iterative and collaborative problem-solving approach involving empathy, ideation, and prototyping. Design thinking is valuable in various stages of the design process, particularly when addressing complex problems or seeking innovative solutions. Its importance lies in fostering a human-centered mindset, encouraging creativity, and facilitating the development of solutions that truly resonate with end users.
Questions
What is Design Thinking?
Design thinking is a structured approach to problem solving that emphasises understanding people, framing the problem, generating options and testing quickly.
Why do you use Design Thinking?
It gives non-designers a repeatable way into the kind of thinking designers do, which is useful when the decisions are not being made by designers.
How do you use/apply Design Thinking?
Work through the phases honestly rather than as a workshop format: it only works if the empathy stage changes the framing.
When do you use Design Thinking?
On ambiguous problems where the definition matters as much as the solution.
Who uses Design Thinking?
Widely used beyond design teams, in strategy, education and organisational change.
