Design Thinking
Understand – Improve – Apply
Editors: Plattner, Hasso, Meinel, Christoph, Leifer, Larry (Eds.)
Free Preview- Based on scientific evidence from the HPI Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.
- Coverage goes beyond best practice in design thinking and innovation.
- Points out how design thinking can be used to innovate IT-Development
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“Everybody loves an innovation, an idea that sells.“ But how do we arrive at such ideas that sell? And is it possible to learn how to become an innovator? Over the years Design Thinking – a program originally developed in the engineering department of Stanford University and offered by the two D-schools at the Hasso Plattner Institutes in Stanford and in Potsdam – has proved to be really successful in educating innovators. It blends an end-user focus with multidisciplinary collaboration and iterative improvement to produce innovative products, systems, and services. Design Thinking creates a vibrant interactive environment that promotes learning through rapid conceptual prototyping. In 2008, the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program was initiated, a venture that encourages multidisciplinary teams to investigate various phenomena of innovation in its technical, business, and human aspects. The researchers are guided by two general questions: 1. What are people really thinking and doing when they are engaged in creative design innovation? How can new frameworks, tools, systems, and methods augment, capture, and reuse successful practices? 2. What is the impact on technology, business, and human performance when design thinking is practiced? How do the tools, systems, and methods really work to get the innovation you want when you want it? How do they fail? In this book, the researchers take a system’s view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena. They continue with an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking. The final part of the book concerns design thinking in information technology and its relevance for business process modeling and agile software development, i.e. real world creation and deployment of products, services, and enterprise systems.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Design Thinking: A Fruitful Concept for IT Development?
Pages 3-18
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A Unified Innovation Process Model for Engineering Designers and Managers
Pages 19-43
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Product Differentiation by Aesthetic and Creative Design: A Psychological and Neural Framework of Design Thinking
Pages 45-57
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Re-representation: Affordances of Shared Models in Team-Based Design
Pages 61-79
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The Co-evolution of Theory and Practice in Design Thinking – or – “Mind the Oddness Trap!”
Pages 81-99
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Design Thinking
- Book Subtitle
- Understand – Improve – Apply
- Editors
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- Hasso Plattner
- Christoph Meinel
- Larry Leifer
- Series Title
- Understanding Innovation
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-13757-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-13757-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-13756-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-26638-6
- Series ISSN
- 2197-5752
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 238
- Topics