Design Thinking

Design thinking is a process for solving problems by prioritizing the consumer's needs above all else. I found this 

information at https://www.wework.com

Design thinking is both an ideology and a process that seeks to solve complex problems in a user-centric way. It focuses on achieving practical results and solutions that are:

• Technically feasible: They can be developed into functional products or processes;

• Economically viable: The business can afford to implement them;

• Desirable for the user: They meet a real human need.

The ideology behind design thinking states that, in order to come up with innovative solutions, one must adopt a designer’s mindset and approach the problem from the user’s perspective. At the same time, design thinking is all about getting hands-on; the aim is to turn your ideas into tangible, testable products or processes as quickly as possible.

I found this information at https://www.invisionapp.com

At a high level, the steps involved in the design thinking process are simple: first, fully understand the problem; second, explore a wide range of possible solutions; third, iterate extensively through prototyping and testing; I found this example at https://mitsloan.mit.edu  

All of this information I have found on the internet which should be of no surprise to anyone else in my class. Yet I have learned that a design thinker is a person that has a problem and creates innovative solutions to solve it.