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The Core of ‘Design Thinking’ and Its Application

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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.

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Date

In publication

Volume

32

Issue

6

Pages

521-532

Resource type

Background/Context

Medium

Print

Background/context type

Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

Yes

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

0142-694X

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

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