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Design Thinking Research

Building Innovation Eco-Systems

  • Based on scientific evidence from the HPI Stanford Design Thinking Research Program
  • Covers more than just best practice in design thinking and innovation
  • Points out how design thinking can be used to innovate IT development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Understanding Innovation (UNDINNO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction

    • Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer
    Pages 3-10
  3. All Design Activity Is Ultimately Social in Nature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Student Teams in Search of Design Thinking

      • Shelley Goldman, Zandile Kabayadondo, Adam Royalty, Maureen P. Carroll, Bernard Roth
      Pages 11-34
    3. Early and Repeated Exposure to Examples Improves Creative Work

      • Chinmay Kulkarni, Steven P. Dow, Scott R Klemmer
      Pages 49-62
    4. Impact and Sustainability of Creative Capacity Building: The Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neural Correlates of Increasing Creative Capacity

      • Grace Hawthorne, Eve Marie Quintin, Manish Saggar, Nick Bott, Eliza Keinitz, Ning Liu et al.
      Pages 65-77
  4. Design Thinkers Must Preserve Ambiguity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Acting with Creative Confidence: Developing a Creative Agency Assessment Tool

      • Adam Royalty, Lindsay Noelle Oishi, Bernard Roth
      Pages 79-96
    3. How Design Thinking Tools Help To Solve Wicked Problems

      • Julia von Thienen, Christoph Meinel, Claudia Nicolai
      Pages 97-102
    4. How Prototyping Helps to Solve Wicked Problems

      • Birgit Jobst, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 105-113
  5. All Design Is Re-design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Creative Collaboration in Real World Settings

      • Matthias Wenzel, Lutz Gericke, Raja Gumienny, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 115-134
    3. User-Centered Innovation for the Design and Development of Complex Products and Systems

      • Lauren Aquino Shluzas, Martin Steinert, Riitta Katila
      Pages 135-149
    4. Connecting Designing and Engineering Activities

      • Thomas Beyhl, Gregor Berg, Holger Giese
      Pages 153-182
  6. Make Ideas Tangible

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. A Research Plan for the Integration of Design Thinking with Large Scale Software Development Projects

      • Thomas Kowark, Franziska Häger, Ralf Gehrer, Jens Krüger
      Pages 183-202
    3. Design Thinking: Expectations from a Management Perspective

      • Holger Rhinow, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 239-252

About this book

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.

The authors offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods. The contents of the articles range from how to design ideas, methods, and technologies via creativity experiments and wicked problem solutions, to creative collaboration in the real world and the connectivity of designers and engineers. But the topics go beyond this in their detailed exploration of design thinking and its use in IT systems engineering fields and even from a management perspective.

The authors show how these methods and strategies work in companies, introduce new technologies and their functions and demonstrate how Design Thinking can influence as diverse a topic area as marriage. Furthermore, we see how special design thinking use functions in solving wicked problems in complex fields.

Thinking and creating innovations are basically and inherently human – so is Design Thinking. Due to this, Design Thinking is not only a factual matter or a result of special courses nor of being gifted or trained: it’s a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques, technologies and life.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“The book is divided into four parts, each comprising three to five papers related to design thinking. Interestingly, the titles of all parts are full sentences, informing the reader of specific design thinking activities. … I would recommend it to engineers, managers, and designers for afternoon reading, as well as to scientists who want to grasp the virtues of engineering processes, which actual scientific discoveries may lead to.” (Janusz Zalewski, Computing Reviews, July, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Larry Leifer

  • Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany

    Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel

Bibliographic Information

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Buying options

eBook USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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