Design Thinking
From Sustainability Methods
What
- guidelines for a creative process in product design
- iterative process of brainstorming, persona building, prototyping and testing
- was adapted by businesses, research and governance
Why & When
- useful if you want to solve a problem
- helps to understand your target group's position
- prevents you from creating a solution when there is no problem
- as a researcher, you can use it to develop solutions for your work life e.g.
Goal(s)
Getting started
- Empathise – with your users
- Define – your users’ needs, their problem, and your insights
- Ideate – by challenging assumptions and creating ideas for innovative solutions
- Prototype – to start creating solutions
- Test – solutions
