Design Thinking Books You Must Read (updated)
Can you think that following a design thinking process with five steps turns you into a creative innovator?! Believe me, it isn’t and never has been this way. The spread
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Measuring Design Thinking Impact
The term design thinking has been widely used to describe the application of the design process’s characteristics and distinguish it from other development processes, such as the focus of user
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How Inclusive Design Reshaped Microsoft Products
Twenty years ago, I used to be a Windows operating system user and always asked myself; why is it so complicated? The screen is full of functions with minimum consideration
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Why Design Thinking Doesn’t Work
Many articles have recently addressed design thinking as a mindset to solve problems and achieve innovation by focusing on human needs. However, the over-commercialisation and promotions have led to a
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Design Thinking Tools for Ideation
The ideation stage is a key point in the design thinking process (Known as Define in the Double Diamond Process). It is where the problem or the challenge is defined. The prototyped solutions may not
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How to Use Role-Play Method in UX Research
As human beings, our lives are formed as a net of intersected stories. Reading or watching stories help us to put ourselves on others shoes, feel their pains and pleasant
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The Double Diamond Design Thinking Process and How to Use it
We explored the design thinking different frameworks in various articles, and one of these models is the Double Diamond design thinking process which the British Design Council developed. Like other
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Why Companies Need to Apply Design Thinking
Until the moment of writing this article, many companies are still having a lack of understanding the notion of design thinking. I believe this may be a result of two
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Why Some Companies Reject Design Thinking and How to Handle it
As designers, the design thinking is part of our daily habits even if we don’t have any background about its different stages. We research for information about the project before
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How to Successfully Apply the Inspiration in Design Thinking
In the last few decades, there were different models for the design thinking process that have been introduced such as the d.school design thinking, IDEO human-centered design, double diamond, IBM
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Design Thinking Guide: What, Why and How
For many companies, the design process is still locked inside a small creative room. Designers do not effectively contribute to building the business as the design is seen as a
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Design Thinking: The Need for Empathy
The idea behind design thinking is to address the user problems and ensure that the user’s needs are in focus during the different design process phases. it does not matter
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How Design Thinking Approaches Problems
Design thinking is widely known as a strategy to successfully address complex problems and build products that address consumers’ needs. Many word-leading design companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, IKEA, Lego
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Design Thinking Case Study: Innovation at Apple
Apple is one of the leading companies that is renowned for its unique products and brand. A short talk with an Apple user reveals there is an emotional relation between
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Design Thinking in Schools: Building a Generation of Innovators
Observing today’s world can tell us much about tomorrow and what human beings need to meet future challenges. Along with the increasing challenges that we face everyday from economical challenges
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If You Believe that Design Thinking is a Waste of Time, You’re Doing It Wrong
Design thinking tools and methods tend to explore innovative ideas and creative solutions for organization problems by shifting the way we think from ordinary methods to new techniques that explore
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Applying Design Thinking in Education to Fight Extremism
Last week, we woke up to the terrible attacks in Paris, and the world is still mourning the more than 150 killed in the incident. A couple of days before,
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Why Design Thinking Can Contribute to a Growing Business
Design thinking is defined by Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, as “a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and
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Top Resources to Learn Design Thinking Online
Companies such as Apple, Toyota, Virgin and others provide proof that applying design thinking in the innovation process can make changes not only by creating opportunities, but also by building
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Can We Apply Design Thinking in Education?
Many schools claim that their systems support innovation and creativity in the educational process, yet the results indicate a failure to implement the proper methodologies in order to achieve this
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