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Design Thinking Mind

The document discusses the characteristics of a design-thinking mindset. It describes design thinkers as having dynamic, empathetic, human-centered, visual, collaborative, reflective, risk-taking, failure-embracing, and optimistic mindsets. Design thinkers engage in prototyping to gather feedback on ideas and use an iterative process of refining concepts. They look for opportunities by questioning constraints and view problems as having solutions.

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Design Thinking Mind

The document discusses the characteristics of a design-thinking mindset. It describes design thinkers as having dynamic, empathetic, human-centered, visual, collaborative, reflective, risk-taking, failure-embracing, and optimistic mindsets. Design thinkers engage in prototyping to gather feedback on ideas and use an iterative process of refining concepts. They look for opportunities by questioning constraints and view problems as having solutions.

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THE DESIGN-THINKING MIND

ENTREPRENEURIAL CREATIVITY
“At the very heart of capitalism… is the creative habit
of enterprise. Enterprise is, in its first moment, the
inclination to notice, the habit of discerning, the
tendency to discover what other people don’t yet see.
It is also the capacity to act on insight, so as to bring
into reality things not before seen. It is the ability to
foresee both the needs of others and the combinations
of productive factors most adapted to satisfying those
needs. This habit of intellect constitutes an important
source of wealth in modern society.

Novak, M. (1996) Business as a Calling. The Free Press, New York. 120
CHARACTERISTICS OF A DESIGN-THINKING MIND

Dynamic Mind

Engages in Empathetic
Prototyping

Optimistic Human-centered

Visual
Embracing
of Failure
Comfortable
with
Open to Ambiguity
Taking Risks
Reflective Collaborative
DYNAMIC MIND
• Dynamic mindset is the ability
Dynamic Mind
to shift between inventive
thinking, where new ideas
are generated, and
analytical thinking, where
ideas are tested to identify
an appropriate solution.
EMPATHETIC
• Empathy isthe ability to see
Empathetic
a situation from multiple
perspectives such as the
point of view of clients, end
users, and colleagues. These
various perspectives allow
design thinkers to imagine
solutions that meet the
needs of the users.
HUMAN CENTERED
• Design thinkers put the
Human-centered
human experience at the
center of problem solving
where the lives of people, their
challenges, and their ideas
are closely and deeply
examined by engaging
with people in their everyday
environments.
VISUAL
Visual • Visualizing has two components:

First, visual thinking speaks to a


form of thinking that brings
about new ideas;

Second, is bringing to life


what was conceptualized
in the mind.
COMFORTABLE WITH
AMBIGUITY
• Design thinkers must be
comfortable with ambiguity (or
not knowing) while at the same
time exploring information,
generating ideas, and detecting
patterns.
COLLABORATIVE
• Design thinkers engage with
Collaborative clients to understand what needs
to be designed, with end users to
understand their perspectives,
and with other stakeholders to
determine the context and
existence of any constraints.
• In this way, design thinkers do
not create solutions in isolation,
but, rather, solutions are co-
created through engagement
with others.
REFLECTIVE
• Reflection is described as
Reflective
learning through action where
the design thinker proposes a
solution, creates an artifact
that can be examined by
others, and reflects upon the
perspectives provided by
others to improve upon the
solution.
OPEN TO TAKING RISKS
• There is a tendency to cling onto
the status quo, which prevents
Open to
Taking Risks the birth of new ideas, but
design thinkers are
comfortable with questioning
the status quo to seek new
opportunities.
• With this questioning the status
quo also comes the ability to
examine constraints to
understand why they exist and
EMBRACING OF FAILURE
• Design thinkers are not fearful
Embracing
of Failure that the ideas presented will not
be received well or completely
miss the mark.
• DTs do not view failure as
something to be avoided but
rather as a needed part of the
problem solving process.
• DTs reflect on failure and use
this information to move an
idea into the next iteration.
OPTIMISTIC
• Design thinkers are committed to
Optimistic
the pursuit of finding better
alternatives. Therefore, design
thinkers approach a problem
with an attitude that all
problems have at least one
solution that will improve the
situation from where it is
currently.
ENGAGES IN PROTOTYPING
• Design thinkers view solution
finding as an iterative process
Engages in
Prototyping that requires refining and
combining ideas to arrive at a
final solution.
• Design thinkers engage in
prototyping to transform
conceptualized ideas into
tangibles for the purpose of
gathering feedback on how a
solution will work in the real
world.
THE DESIGN THINKING PROCESS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0VX-aU_T8
IDEA GENERATION STRATEGIES
How to Generate Ideas with the SCAMPER Technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMJINQIZzA

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