The Design Thinker Blog

Theory, practice, and stories from the field. 

Optimism, is it really great? Jun 05, 2023

If you are going to do a thing, it helps to believe that it is possible to do the said thing.

 

When I first started my research to understand design thinking capabilities, I was surprised to...

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Design Thinking in Action: Insights from the field Nov 03, 2018

A question I often get is, how do we put Design Thinking into practice? This is a complex question to answer because Design Thinking is flexible and can be applied in many ways so, context is...

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Four Strategies for Increasing Empathy Oct 19, 2018

Recently, I was asked the question, how can we increase the use of empathy? It is exciting to see the growing interest in developing empathy. It seems empathy is finally being recognized for...

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Design Thinking is NOTā€¦Three Misconceptions Addressed Sep 26, 2018

Design thinking has become a familiar concept in the business world with more and more companies adopting this approach to improve innovation and drive change. Yet, there appear to be some...

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Failed? Why you need to share your failure story Apr 09, 2018

Design thinking encourages failure because failure is a critical step on the road to success. Most of our lives, we have been trained to believe that failing is bad. We have been conditioned...

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Empathy: Why It Needs To Be Part Of Your Competitive Strategy Mar 07, 2018

Lately, terms like “human-centered” and “customer-centric” are becoming part of business lingo. These terms call for companies to examine their business from the perspective...

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Design Thinking vs Design Thinkers: What is the difference? Jan 24, 2018

Over the past decade or so, the concept of Design Thinking has become a popular approach to problem solving. In some circles, Design Thinking is viewed as a methodology with several...

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Design Thinking Process Models: Which Process Model Should I Use? Sep 27, 2017

A question that emerges when discussing adopting a design thinking approach is, which process model should we use. Several different process models are available (see IDEO’s HCD Process,...

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What is Design Thinking?: A Brief Introduction Sep 24, 2017

What is Design Thinking? One of the challenges with introducing the concept of design thinking is that this concept does not have one agreed upon definition. Depending on the source you...

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