Design Thinking Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation

   • Larry Leifer, Christoph Meinel

   Pages 1-12

3. Theoretical Foundations of Design Thinking

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

   Pages 13-38

4. Understanding Success Factors of Design Thinking

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Emotions Along the Design Thinking Process

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

      Pages 41-60

   3. Measuring Design Thinking Practice in Context

      • Adam Royalty, Helen Chen, Bernard Roth, Sheri Sheppard

      Pages 61-73

   4. Making Use of Innovation Spaces: Towards a Framework of Strategizing Spatial Interventions

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

      Pages 75-96

5. Exploring the Digital Potential: Teaching, Research and Organizational Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. An Iterative Approach to Online Course Design: Improving a Design Research MOOC

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

      Pages 99-112

   3. Crowd Research: Open and Scalable University Laboratories

      • Rajan Vaish, Snehalkumar (Neil) S. Gaikwad, Geza Kovacs, Andreas Veit, Ranjay Krishna, Imanol Arrieta Ibarra et al.

      Pages 113-142

   4. Redesigning Social Organization for Accelerated Innovation in the New Digital Economy: A Design Thinking Perspective

      • Ade Mabogunje, Neeraj Sonalkar, Larry Leifer

      Pages 143-156

6. Design Thinking in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. New Ways of Data Entry in Doctor-Patient Encounters

      • Matthias Wenzel, Anja Perlich, Julia P. A. von Thienen, Christoph Meinel

      Pages 159-177

   3. Design Thinking Pain Management: Tools to Improve Human-Centered Communication Between Patients and Providers

      • Nicholas Berte, Lauren Aquino Shluzas, Bardia Beigi, Moses Albaniel, Martin S. Angst, David Pickham

      Pages 179-197

   4. InnoDev: A Software Development Methodology Integrating Design Thinking, Scrum and Lean Startup

      • Franziska Dobrigkeit, Danielly de Paula, Matthias Uflacker

      Pages 199-227

   5. Towards Exploratory Software Design Environments for the Multi-Disciplinary Team

      • Patrick Rein, Marcel Taeumel, Robert Hirschfeld

      Pages 229-247

   6. “I Know It When I See It”: How Experts and Novices Recognize Good Design

      • Kesler Tanner, James Landay

      Pages 249-266

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. Researchers have identified metrics, developed models, and conducted studies, which are featured in this book, and in the previous volumes of this series.

Offering readers a closer look at design thinking, and its innovation processes and methods, this volume covers topics ranging from understanding success factors of design thinking to exploring the potential that lies in the use of digital technologies. Furthermore, readers learn how special-purpose design thinking can be used to solve thorny problems in complex fields, such as the health sector or software development.

Thinking and devising innovations are inherently human activities – so is design thinking. Accordingly, design thinking is not merely the result of special courses or of being gifted or trained: it is a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques, technologies and life. As such, the research outcomes compiled in this book should increase knowledge and provide inspiration to all seeking to drive innovation – be they experienced design thinkers or newcomers.

• Stanford Design Thinking Research Program
• Design Thinking
• Hasso Plattner Institute
• Stanford D-School
• DTR
• IT development
• innovating creativity
• School of Design Thinking
• Creative collaboration

• Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

  Christoph Meinel

• Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Larry Leifer

 Professor Dr. Christoph Meinel (Univ. Prof., Dr. sc. nat., Dr. rer. nat., 1954) is Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the Potsdam University and Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and a full professor (C4) for computer science and serves as department chair of Internet Technologies and Systems at HPI. Beside he is a teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking, he is an honorary professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at Beijing University of Technology and a guest professor at Shanghai University. Christoph Meinel is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. Meinel is a member of acatech, the German “National Academy of Science and Engineering,” and numerous scientific committees and supervisory boards.Together with Larry Leifer from Stanford University he is program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program. He is scientifically active in innovation research on all aspects of the Stanford innovation method “Design Thinking.”Christoph Meinel is author/co-author of 9 books and 4 anthologies, as well as editor of various conference proceedings. More than 400 of his papers have been published in high-profile scientific journals and at international conferences. He is also editor-in -chief of “ECCC – Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity,” “ECDTR – Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research,” the “IT-Gipfelblog” and the tele-TASK lecture archive and openHPI.


Larry Leifer is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, CA, USA. Dr. Leifer's engineering design thinking research is focused on instrumenting design teams to understand, support, and improve design practice and theory. Specific issues include: design-team research methodology, global team dynamics, innovation leadership, interaction design, design-for-wellbeing, and adaptive mechatronic systems. Dr. Leifer has taught Design Innovation for decades and continues to redesign the course ever year with new methodologies and technologies. Once a design student himself at Stanford University, he has started many design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR). A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, his research themes include: creating collaborative engineering environments for distributed product innovation teams, instrumentating that environment for design knowledge capture, indexing, reuse, and performance assessment, and design-for-wellbeing, socially responsible and sustainable engineering.

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