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  1. Design Thinking: A Creative Approach to Problem Solving

    Abstract. Design thinking—understanding the human needs related to a problem, reframing the problem in human-centric ways, creating many ideas in brainstorming sessions, and adopting a hands-on approach to prototyping and testing—offers a complementary approach to the rational problem-solving methods typically emphasized in business schools.

  2. (PDF) Design Thinking: An overview

    This paper is a critical view on design thinking, addressing both, the limitations of the tra-ditional design thinking research as well as the contributions of the new approach, often referred to ...

  3. (PDF) Design Thinking in Education: Perspectives ...

    thinking process and mindset as a learning goal in and. of itself; (5) design thinking in student support, i.e., mentoring, advising, c ounseling; (6) design thinking for. process improvement or ...

  4. Design Thinking in Education: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges

    The article discusses design thinking as a process and mindset for collaboratively finding solutions for wicked problems in a variety of educational settings. Through a systematic literature review the article organizes case studies, reports, theoretical reflections, and other scholarly work to enhance our understanding of the purposes, contexts, benefits, limitations, affordances, constraints ...

  5. What Is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important?

    Design thinking is generally defined as an analytic and creative pr ocess that. engages a person in opportunities to experiment, create and prototype mod-. els, gather feedback, and redesign ...

  6. Design thinking for innovation: context factors, process, and outcomes

    Design thinking (DT) is an established process used in organizations, which aims to solve problems and promote innovation ( Brown, 2008 ). By its creative und intuitive nature, DT can be distinguished from other processes, which are purely analytical ( Mansoori and Lackéus, 2020; Nakata, 2020 ). Advantages for product or service innovations ...

  7. Design Thinking for Innovation: Antecedents, Process, and Outcome

    Paper type Research paper. 1. Introduction. Design thinking (DT) is an established process used in organizations, which aims to solve. problems and promote innovation ( Brown, 2008). By its ...

  8. Doing Design Thinking: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research

    To shed light on current knowledge and conceptualizations of design thinking we undertook a multiphase study. First, a systematic review of the design thinking literature enabled us to identify 10 principal attributes and 8 tools and methods. To validate and refine our findings, we then employed a card sorting exercise with professional designers.

  9. Design Thinking Research: Interrogating the Doing

    Larry Leifer. Based on scientific evidence from the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program. Provides outlook on the emerging field of neurodesign research. Highlights how design thinking can tap the potential of digital technologies in a human-centered way. Part of the book series: Understanding Innovation (UNDINNO) 28k Accesses.

  10. Design Thinking Research: Making Design Thinking Foundational

    Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer. Based on scientific evidence from the HPI Stanford. Design Thinking Research Program Covers more than just best practice in design thinking and innovation. Points out how design thinking can be used to innovate IT development. Part of the book series: Understanding Innovation (UNDINNO) 171k Accesses.

  11. Design Thinking: from Bibliometric Analysis to Content ...

    The purpose of this study is to conduct a comprehensive systematic literature review, bibliometric analysis, and content analysis of design thinking (DT). To identify the research papers, a systematic literature review was done. After reading, all titles of the articles, abstract, keywords, and full-length articles based on the requirement, unrelated articles to design thinking were removed ...

  12. Full article: Theory and practice of Design Thinking: perspectives of

    2.1. Design Thinking and design thinkers: ontological issues. DT has recently emerged as an approach to facilitate innovative problem-solving in public and private organizations alike, with several main goals: from the improvement of services for citizens and other constituencies (service design), through the betterment of products (product design), to the streamlining of existing processes ...

  13. Design thinking as an effective method for problem-setting and

    Organizations in a wide array of fields and disciplines are increasingly using design thinking as an innovative process to create products or services that address wicked problems in their industries. Design thinking, a method of creative and collaborative problem solving originating in the tactics of designers, is a product design and development process that is, more and more, being used as ...

  14. Theoretical foundations of design thinking

    RO2: To propose a comprehensive teaching pedagogy for Design Thinking. This objective is accomplished by detailing activities in all phases of the design thinking process. This research paper comprises of five sections. A detailed review of the literature is presented in Section 2. In addition to the literature review, we have developed a ...

  15. Design thinking for innovation: context factors, process, and outcomes

    Definitions of design thinking. Design Thinking is an iterative problem-solving and innovation process in organizations, which is based on specific principles (such as a focus on user needs, multidisciplinarity, etc.) and uses specific methods (such as creative thinking, visualization, experimentation, etc.). 164.

  16. Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review

    Design thinking is a new approach to problem-solving that is being increasingly used in many organizations (Nakata and Hwang 2020). The application of design thinking in different fields has dem... Design thinking enabling innovation: a literature review: Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research: Vol 36 , No 4 - Get Access

  17. Applying design thinking for business model innovation

    Research methodology. The researcher used ScienceDirect and Scopus databases for the literature searching and "business model", "design thinking" and "innovation" as keywords for Boolean searches (Boolean search: TITLE-ABS-KEY ["business model" AND "design thinking" AND "innovation"] for journal and conference papers).

  18. Frontiers

    Recent research suggests that design thinking practices may foster the development of needed capabilities in new digitalised landscapes. However, existing publications represent individual contributions, and we lack a holistic understanding of the value of design thinking in a digital world. No review, to date, has offered a holistic retrospection of this research.

  19. Making way for design thinking in the public sector: a taxonomy of

    This paper, therefore, aims to answer the question: what strategies do designers and civil servants involved in design thinking projects in the public sector employ to support the application of design thinking? In doing so, this research provides insights that are essential to realizing the potential of design thinking in the public sector.

  20. Effects of design thinking on artificial intelligence learning and

    However, effects of cross-linking and examples were nonsignificant. In addition, it had a significant and positive effect on learning attitudes toward AI, in particular AI input and AI processing. Moreover, design thinking significantly and positively affected the idea creativity of AI applications, particularly the effects of novelty and value.

  21. Design Thinking in Research

    Formally, design thinking is a 5-7 step process: Steps to the Design Thinking Process. Empathize - observing the world, understanding the need for research in one's field. Define - defining one particular way in which people's lives could be improved by research. Ideate - relentless brainstorming of ideas without judgment or overanalysis.

  22. PDF Design Thinking: from Bibliometric Analysis to Content ...

    cess, and application of design thinking in research (Table 2). Based on the above discussion, it is clear that there is a big void in the litera-ture review research in design thinking. Moreover, no authors have adopted SLR, bibliometric analysis, and content analysis techniques to explore design thinking till now.

  23. Design Thinking in Practice: Research Methodology

    Over the last decade, we have seen design thinking gain popularity across industries. Nielsen Norman Group conducted a long-term research project to understand design thinking in practice. The research project included 3 studies involving more than 1000 participants and took place from 2018 to 2020: Intercepts and interviews with 87 participants.