Design Thinking and Innovation: Design Mindset and its Application

This report delves into the realm of design thinking, exploring its role in driving innovation and fostering a customer-centric approach. It examines the concept of a design mindset, highlighting its significance in enhancing creativity and problem-solving capabilities. The report outlines the design thinking framework, emphasizing its structured approach to understanding innovation, and provides insights into how it can be applied to generate organic growth and add value to customers. It also references relevant research to support the concepts discussed, including the importance of a design mindset in educational and business contexts. The report discusses the cyclical nature of the design process, including the importance of observing, developing creative solutions, and testing and refining those solutions.

Design Mindset In the context of the
innovation
Design Thinking
Design thinking is referred as the human
centric approach to innovation that help in
fetching from the toolkit of the designers to
integrate the requirement of the people
(Blizzard & Klotz, 2012).
Design Mindset in the context of the
innovation
Design mindset has the ability to increase
the creativity and the innovation in order to
develop and represent the tasks for desired
outcomes (O'Rourke, Haimovitz,
Ballweber, Dweck, & Popović, (2014). .
Process of Design Mindset
Framework of Design Mindset
Design thinking provides a structured
framework for the purpose of
understanding innovation in ways
that contribute to organic growth and
add real value to the customers
(Rauth, Köppen, Jobst & Meinel,
2010). The cycle of design mindset
encompasses observation to discover
unmet requirements within the
context and constraints of a specific
situation and developing creative
ideas, testing and refining solutions
(Naiman, 2018).
References
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O'Rourke, E., Haimovitz, K., Ballweber, C., Dweck, C., & Popović, Z. (2014). Brain points: a growth mindset incentive structure boosts persistence in an
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