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The Core of ‘Design Thinking’ and Its Application

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Title
The Core of ‘Design Thinking’ and Its Application
Abstract/Description
In the last few years, “Design Thinking” has gained popularity – it is now seen as an exciting new paradigm for dealing with problems in sectors as far a field as IT, Business, Education and Medicine. This potential success challenges the design research community to provide unambiguous answers to two key questions: “What is the core of Design Thinking?” and “What could it bring to practitioners and organisations in other fields?”. We sketch a partial answer by considering the fundamental reasoning pattern behind design, and then looking at the core design practices of framing and frame creation. The paper ends with an exploration of the way in which these core design practices can be adopted for organisational problem solving and innovation.
Author/creator
Dorst, Kees
Date
2011
In publication
Design Studies
Series
Interpreting Design Thinking
Volume
32
Issue
6
Pages
521-532
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Keywords
problem solving
design practice
framing
reasoning
Open access/free-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
Language
en
ISSN
0142-694X
DOI
10.1016/j.destud.2011.07.006
URL
Open Access Publisher's Webpage (ScienceDirect)
Citation
Dorst, K. (2011). The Core of ‘Design Thinking’ and Its Application. Design Studies, 32(6), 521–532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2011.07.006
Cited in
Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives
Abbreviation
Design Studies
Item sets
OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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