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


Links & Further reading