Design Thinking is the Data Science of UX: an attempt to gain influence in fields that you don't have expertise in. Even though there might be universal design principle that can be applied in many fields, the Design Thinking people think that they can just come in and design user interfaces, etc. without really having an expertise in the particular field. Design Thinking works for selling consulting and not much els…
Design thinking, at least in its formal STS approach, is essentially applied sociology; it's about using various toolkits to build a sufficient understanding of a domain from the "inside out" (using desk and field research) so that you can design valuable experiences that build upon the expertise of those actually inside the domain. In this, it's a bridge between UX/product and users/stakeholders (technical stakehold…
Re: Design Thinking Books (2024)
#161These are good points. Although I discussed the TRIZ in couple of my articles. I need to revisit my thoughts as it is over-egineered Russian tool that eliminate all the benefits of subjective constructivism design mindset. It is simply say, everything can be solved using one fo those 40 ways.