Design Thinking Report: Exploring Design Thinking Methodology

This report delves into the core principles of design thinking, emphasizing its role as a methodology and a mindset for problem-solving and innovation. It begins by defining design thinking, highlighting its focus on user needs and its iterative, collaborative nature. The report then outlines the five key stages of the design thinking process: understanding & empathy, defining the problem, brainstorming solutions, prototyping solutions, and testing the solution. Each stage is explained in detail, with a focus on the techniques and objectives involved. The report emphasizes the importance of ideation, prototyping, and user testing, as well as the iterative nature of the design process. It also highlights the importance of organizational messages and narratives for driving business objectives and the value of collaboration and iteration throughout the process. Finally, the report provides links to relevant resources and articles to support further exploration of the topic.

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Design thinking
Design thinking can be defined as the best procedure, a course of action, a verb and
not an object. It is a convention for tackling issues in the design and finding new
opportunities.
It asks for the designers and business people to keep concentrated on people and
human needs in a designing process. It depends on both inventiveness and rationale for the
process. It advances a learn-by-doing approach and even proposes that ointment is a decent
method to learn. The process also asks for high level of collaboration between the different
team members as well as teams.
Thus Design thinking can be portrayed as a discipline in the designing that uses the
sensibility of the designer and techniques to coordinate individuals needs with what is
mechanically/technically feasible to complete and what a practical business procedure can
change over into client esteem and market opportunity.
There are mainly five steps in this process, understanding & empathy, defining the
problem, brainstorming solutions, prototyping solutions, testing the solution.
In the first stage, the designers, learn as much as possible about the end users or
target audience.
In the second stage, designers investigate numerous aspects for the given problems
scenarios and develop facades established on goals, demographics and objectives.
Brainstorming solutions: Frequently called as the “ideation” phase in this phase a
cluster of ideas are blended while judgment is deferred and creativity is encouraged for the
better solution.

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Ideation is important in design thinking as it is all about pushing for an extensive
conceivable range of ideas for the solution from which the designers can select the most
appropriate one and it is not simply about finding a single solution but the best possible
solution. The purpose of the best solution will be exposed later, through the processes like
feedback and user testing.
One of the important ideation techniques is porotype building. In other words,
prototyping can be an ideation technique for getting user responses. In physically developing
something the designers come to points where decisions have to be made. It encourages new
ideas to be generated by the team or the users in the consideration.
Prototyping solutions: at this stage the designers try to quickly, affordably, test the
developed assumptions about the end users or targeted materials, people and processes.
Testing of the developed solution: At this stage, the designers and other team
members learns what works in the solution and what does not so that they can tweak in the
solution in order to enhance the effectiveness of the solution.
Sharing and Crafting the organizational messages as well as narratives for the
required solution that drive business objectives is a less demanding when the designers get
simple of human needs and human issues for the proposed solution.
At the end it is important iterate these stages. Iteration is an important aspect for good
designing. Iterate together by cycling over the process numerous periods. In addition to that
also by iterating inside a step for refinement by creating multiple prototypes.
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Links
https://think360studio.com/what-is-design-thinking-and-design-thinking-process/
https://www.creativityatwork.com/design-thinking-strategy-for-innovation/
https://hbr.org/2008/06/design-thinking
https://designshack.net/articles/business-articles/thinking-about-design-thinking-is-it-
important/
https://trueparallel.com/why-design-thinking-is-important/