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Design Thinking
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What is Design Thinking, and how do I get started?
Here’s a six-ingredient recipe to ensure you can cook up some tasty Design Thinking for yourself.
Design Thinking takes a user-centric approach to problem solving.
It's less about traditional objects and visuals, focusing instead on the user’s experience.
This recipe of Design Thinking dates back to the 1960s — it became more mainstream after the IDEO design agency was formed.
Design Thinking is not just for designers!
Everything around us has been designed. So it must be good right?
Thinking like a designer can help you create, innovate, and even lead and manage people.
These six ingredients work together to empower you to create and develop hard hitting solutions that work for you, your team and your client.
I hope this recipe helps you as much as it has helped me!
Maslow's Hierarchy Applied to Human Need and Employee Engagement
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What does your design process look like?
I love a solid creative process - always on the look out for ways to improve. As the old saying goes “work smarter, not harder”.
The actual and ideal design processes, I found on Pinterest post from Crowhop Creative.
The post made me chuckle.
It got me thinking about my dream design process, then I remembered a video from The Futur, in which Chris Do outlined his creative process.
It was amazing, so logical and clear - removing risk, guesswork and surprises. It always delivered.
This is the process I try to emulate now in my own work.
Every project gets me a little bit closer to that dream process.
Thanks, to Master Do for sharing it!
Mindsets of Design Thinking
Based on a random pin I came across on Pinterest — not sure who to credit!
Design Thinking is one of the reasons that I get up every day.
This explanation of Design Thinking really resonated with me and helps to describe why and how I work the way that I do.
Show, don’t tell: Storytelling using another method. Not just using words, but visual aids, for a more inclusive way of sharing valuable information, whether it’s part of a product’s design, a company’s brand, or even a nudenote.
Radical collaboration: Ultimately, we’re all in this together. To get a more honest, true reaction to design, people need to work on it as a team.
Bias towards action: This is common sense, but so many companies and designers have a tendency to procrastinate and spend too long on projects. Just do.
Mindful process: Engage your brain! Be empathetic and considerate: who are you designing for? What are you trying to achieve? How will you achieve it?
Culture of prototyping: To see whether a design works, it needs to be tested.
Human-centred: Following on from the culture of prototyping, designs need to be tested on people for the most accurate predicted reactions from your audience.
Key takeaway:
Design Thinking is not just a process, its a mindset!
I’m a firm believer that design thinking is not just for creating epic design work, it’s a frame of mind that can change the way you look at the world and how to solve life’s daily problems, no matter the size.
If more of us used these design thinking principles the world would be a happier and more positive place to live in.