Design Thinking A Guide To Creative Problem Solving For Everyone
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Design Thinking Contents
Part 1 Processes
- Design Thinking Overview
- Building Blocks Of Design Thinking
- Tools And Strategies
Part 2 Applications
- Politics And Society
- Business
- Health And Science
- Law
- Writing
Preface to Design Thinking A Guide To Creative Problem Solving For Everyone
Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates the understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes.
Not just for architects or product developers, design thinking can be applied across many disciplines to solve real-world problems and reconcile dilemmas.
It is a tool that may trigger inspiration and the imagination, and lead to innovative ideas that are responsive to the needs and issues of stakeholders.
Interpreting the process of design thinking and customizing it so that it will be personally relevant and useful for a unique set of circumstances is not easy.
But the rewards of arriving at an excellent outcome, frequently in poetic fashion, cannot be overstated. Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone will assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday.
This volume is conceived as a primer in design thinking to be immediately useful for a wide audience and to support the now ubiquitous general education, business, and engineering courses in both college and graduate school curricula.
Design Thinking is distinctive because it is directed primarily to individuals (as opposed to teams) without any prerequisites to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design.
Practicing professionals in the design and construction industry who want to rediscover the magic and delight of doing design—particularly with all the constraints and complexities inherent in a real-world context—should find the book refreshing and energizing as well.
So, what exactly is design thinking, and how is it distinct and different from other problem-solving approaches? Will the reader be able to understand the process sufficiently to apply it to help solve problems or work on projects more creatively? If so, how? Answers to these fundamental questions will be set forth clearly and succinctly in the chapters to follow.
Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone is organized into two parts. The first part dives into the process itself, explicitly defining and describing design thinking, and then presenting and evaluating various strategies to cultivate it, which may ultimately provide breakthrough ideas.
This is not intended to be a substitute for the expert judgment, knowledge, and experience of design professionals but rather it delineates a way of thinking that might prove quite useful for those who are not design professionals.
The second part of Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone will illuminate the application of design thinking to diverse problems in several different realms not usually thought to be connected to design, such as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing.
Elaboration of the design thinking process in Part 1 is informed by interviews conducted with select individuals in Part 2 who have practiced design thinking in some meaningful way to make a difference in their lives—and in the world.
My hope is that the examples in Part 2 will be instructive, inspirational, and generalizable to readers’ specific circumstances. Design Thinking celebrates the absence of specific formulae, algorithms, or templates for design thinking.
A formulaic, simplistic approach can severely limit creative possibilities for solving problems or even finding the right questions. The best process is inherently dynamic, changing in response to the nature of the situation and the individuals involved.
A thorough analysis of the problem’s context as well as of the stakeholders themselves, therefore, are critical components of design thinking.
Moreover, because design thinking is a process, the ideas are scalable so as to address problems large and small. Flexibility in solving different kinds of problems will be underscored.
At the same time, analogies to an architect designing a building will be invoked throughout to illustrate components of the process in action, recognizing one of the venerable design professions from which design thinking has evolved.
This acknowledges a certain foundational rigor and legitimacy. I would like to share two quotes from anonymous reviewers of the proposal for this book, each of whom supports this notion:
■ The significance of this book is that it reclaims the design thinking discourse for architecture. It offers insight into the ways architects do design thinking and translates those ways of processing information and acting upon the world into a broad variety of contexts.
■ As a popular guide to design thinking, this could be a useful contribution to the literature of ‘demystified’ thinking that comes out of codified professional knowledge.
In the design process, architects are routinely required to reconcile conflicts among various stakeholders who want more space, prefer certain aesthetic features, or demand the highest quality construction but have low budgets.
The best architects are able to juggle and integrate the many variables, and use conflicts—or constraints—as the fuel that motivates great solutions.
In other words, great architects are taught to create and focus on order out of chaos and complexity. Why shouldn’t professionals in other disciplines take advantage of this mindset? I am a big fan of collaborative work (see Designing Relationships:
The Art of Collaboration in Architecture, Routledge, ), but readers will not always have a team of people at their disposal to creatively solve an urgent problem.
While teams could (and do) successfully embrace the processes shown herein, the focus in this book is on how design thinking can benefit individuals.
There are places within the design thinking loop where individuals can recruit others to help, for example, with criticism or ideation.
The point I want to underscore, though, is that design thinking can be valuable to a large number of individuals, independent of any professional or personal affiliations. Great architects typically question and transcend the building program given to them by clients in order to create something more meaningful and special than just solving the functional problem at hand.
That’s what design thinking can do for many types of problems, and should be considered one of its defining measures. It is tempting to suggest that most challenges in life may be expressed as design problems and effectively managed as such.
Solutions to even the most mundane problems can benefit from an infusion of purposeful creativity—derived from the seemingly magical perspective of design thinking.
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