Design Thinking and Innovation Project: A Practical Guide

This project explores design thinking, a crucial process for innovation. It covers the key steps: empathizing, defining the problem, brainstorming solutions, prototyping, and testing. The assignment emphasizes the importance of design thinking in a business context. The project references relevant academic sources to support its claims. It also highlights how design thinking can facilitate creative problem-solving, and ultimately, drive innovation within organizations. The project provides an overview of the design thinking process and its application in various scenarios.

DESIGN MINDSET IN THE
CONTEXT OF INNOVATION
The term design mindset indicates
modern skill which helps to bring the
productivity in an organization through
creativity and innovation.. In the current
business scenario, the design mindset has
become the important element for
bringing innovation (Gaziulusoy, 2015).
Without the proper design mindset, the
manager will not be able to add a unique
perspective to the problem and thereby
find the correct solutions.
The procedure of the
application of the design
mindset, is very
systematic. It comprises of
the following steps:
• Empathize: Learning
about the appropriate
audience (Jordan &
Lande, 2016).
• Define: Understand
the point of view.
• Brainstorming: Coming
up with a creative
solution (Brenner,
Uebernickel & Abrell,
2016).
• Prototyping: Building a
series of scenarios.
• Testing: Testing the
ideas and coming up
with the best idea
The design mindset procedure is the
focus point of the thinking, system of
business and the pivotal moment (Daniel,
2016). In the context of innovation, the
design mindset has a crucial role to play
as it helps in understanding the blue print
of the problem and then use those
problems for basis for the innovative
solutions (Carlgren, Rauth, &
Elmquist, 2016).
References
Brenner, W., Uebernickel, F., & Abrell, T. (2016). Design thinking as mindset, process, and
toolbox. In Design Thinking for Innovation (pp. 3-21). Springer, Cham.
Carlgren, L., Rauth, I., & Elmquist, M. (2016). Framing design thinking: The concept in
idea and enactment. Creativity and Innovation Management, 25(1), 38-57.
Daniel, A. D. (2016). Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset by using a design thinking
approach in entrepreneurship education. Industry and Higher Education, 30(3), 215-223.
Gaziulusoy, A. I. (2015). A critical review of approaches available for design and
innovation teams through the perspective of sustainability science and system
innovation theories. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107, 366-377.
Gray, C. M. (2016, May). It's more of a mindset than a method: UX practitioners'
conception of design methods. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 4044-4055). ACM.
Jordan, S., & Lande, M. (2016). Additive innovation in design thinking and
making. International Journal of Engineering Education, 32(3), 1438-1444.
(Source: Gray, 2016)