Design Thinking Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Reflections on Working Together—Through and Beyond Design Thinking

   • Larry Leifer, Christoph Meinel

   Pages 1-12

3. Theoretical Foundations of Design Thinking

   • Julia P. A. von Thienen, William J. Clancey, Giovanni E. Corazza, Christoph Meinel

   Pages 13-40

4. Modelling and Mapping Teamwork

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Quadratic Model of Reciprocal Causation for Monitoring, Improving, and Reflecting on Design Team Performance

      • Neeraj Sonalkar, Ade Mabogunje, Mark Cutkosky

      Pages 43-57

   3. Breaks with a Purpose

      • Franziska Dobrigkeit, Danielly de Paula, Matthias Uflacker

      Pages 59-76

5. Tools and Techniques for Productive Collaboration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Mechanical Novel: Crowdsourcing Complex Work Through Reflection and Revision

      • Joy Kim, Sarah Sterman, Allegra Argent Beal Cohen, Michael S. Bernstein

      Pages 79-104

   3. Mosaic: Designing Online Creative Communities for Sharing Works-in-Progress

      • Joy Kim, Maneesh Agrawala, Michael S. Bernstein

      Pages 105-129

   4. Investigating Tangible Collaboration for Design Towards Augmented Physical Telepresence

      • Alexa F. Siu, Shenli Yuan, Hieu Pham, Eric Gonzalez, Lawrence H. Kim, Mathieu Le Goc et al.

      Pages 131-145

   5. The Interaction Engine

      • Nikolas Martelaro, Wendy Ju, Mark Horowitz

      Pages 147-169

   6. Making the Domain Tangible: Implicit Object Lookup for Source Code Readability

      • Patrick Rein, Marcel Taeumel, Robert Hirschfeld

      Pages 171-194

   7. “… and not building on that”: The Relation of Low Coherence and Creativity in Design Conversations

      • Axel Menning, Benedikt Ewald, Claudia Nicolai, Ulrich Weinberg

      Pages 195-213

6. Teaching, Training, Priming: Approaches to Teaching and Enabling Creative Skills

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. The DT MOOC Prototype: Towards Teaching Design Thinking at Scale

      • Mana Taheri, Lena Mayer, Karen von Schmieden, Christoph Meinel

      Pages 217-237

   3. Creativity in the Twenty-first Century: The Added Benefit of Training and Cooperation

      • Naama Mayseless, Manish Saggar, Grace Hawthorne, Allan Reiss

      Pages 239-249

   4. Priming Designers Leads to Prime Designs

      • Jinjuan She, Carolyn Conner Seepersad, Katja Holtta-Otto, Erin F. MacDonald

      Pages 251-273

   5. From Place to Space: How to Conceptualize Places for Design Thinking

      • Martin Schwemmle, Claudia Nicolai, Marie Klooker, Ulrich Weinberg

      Pages 275-298

7. Design Thinking in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. Mapping and Measuring Design Thinking in Organizational Environments

      • Adam Royalty, Sheri Shepard

      Pages 301-312

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Offering readers a closer look at design thinking, its innovation processes and methods, it covers topics ranging from how to design ideas, methods and technologies, to creativity experiments and creative collaboration in the real world, and the interplay between 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 actually work in companies, and introduce new technologies and their functions. Furthermore, readers learn how special-purpose design thinking can be used to solve thorny problems in complex fields. Thinking and devising innovations are fundamentally and inherently human activities – so is design thinking. Accordingly,design thinking is not merely the 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.

This edition offers a historic perspective on the theoretical foundations of design thinking. Within the four topic areas, various frameworks, methodologies, mindsets, systems and tools are explored and further developed. The first topic area focuses on team interaction, while the second part addresses tools and techniques for productive collaboration. The third section explores new approaches to teaching and enabling creative skills and lastly the book examines how design thinking is put into practice. All in all, the contributions shed light and provide deeper insights into how to support the collaboration of design teams in order to systematically and successfully develop innovations and design progressive solutions for tomorrow.

• Design Science
• DTR
• Hasso Plattner Institute
• HPI
• Stanford D-School
• IT development
• innovating creativity
• School of Design Thinking

• Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering , Potsdam, Germany

  Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel

• Stanford University , Stanford, USA

  Larry Leifer

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