Design Thinking Resources For Practitioners

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We get questions on books, papers, and other ‘how-to-get-started-with-design-thinking (DT)’ resources over and over. Thus we decided to compile this little page with the most influential and helpful practitioner material we currently know. For that we asked our circle of colleagues within the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, long-term DT practitioners from the DTX, as well as some colleagues from other universities. There can be no claim of completeness and we left out many works of authors and colleagues, which we love and often recommend on other occasions. You have feedback? There is a great resource we have overlooked? Feel free, to drop us a line.

Essential Readings — A Collection

ResourceThe title of the paper, study or book AuthorsJust click on the author to jump to the reference and source of the reference Reading TimeHow long will it approx. take you to read this text? Type of Publication BFor Design Thinking Beginners AFor Advanced Design Thinkers EFor Design Thinking Experts
Design Thinking < 1 day Business Press Article For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking < 1 day Journal Paper For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Design Thinking: What It Is, Why It Is Different, Where It Has New Value. < 1 day Paper For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Design Thinking: Notes on its Nature and Use. < 1 day Journal Paper For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Framing Design Thinking: The Concept in Idea and Enactment. < 1 day Journal Paper For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
The Innovation Catalysts < 1 day Business Press Article For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Design Thinking: Past, Present and Possible Futures < 1 day Journal Paper Not For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Design Thinking and How It Will Change Management Education: An Interview and Discussion < 1 day Journal Paper For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation > 1 day Book For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
The Design of Business – Roger Martin > 1 day Book For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis. > 1 day Book Not For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Creative Confidence > 1 day Book For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
Parts Without a Whole? – The Current State of Design Thinking Practice in Organizations > 1 day Study Report Not For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life > 1 day Book For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts
The Nature of Design Thinking < 1 day Conference Article For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Wicked Problems in Design Thinking < 1 day Journal Article Less For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Design-Thinking-Diskurse: Bestimmung, Themen, Entwicklungen. > 1 day Doctoral Thesis (German Only) Not For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Manifesto: Design Thinking Becomes Foundational. < 1 day Book Chapter For Design Thinking Beginners For Advanced Design Thinkers For Advanced Design Thinkers
Design Thinking Live > 1 day Book For Design Thinking Beginners Less For Advanced Design Thinkers Less For Design Thinking Experts

Legend: B = Beginner / A = Advanced / E = Expert

Advanced Readings

The Springer Series: “Understanding Innovation”

Within the Design Thinking Research Program (DTRP), researchers from Stanford University and HPI strive to apply rigorous academic methods to understand how and why design thinking innovation works and fails. The research results from the different DTRP projects are annually published in the Springer volume “Understanding Innovation”. The reader gains insights into the latest scientific findings about factors of success, tools and methods of design thinking. If you want to dig deeper, this series is for you.

The Rotman Magazine                            

The Rotman Magazine is the official publication of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. They publish three themed issues per year. Content includes input from Rotman faculty; leading academics at top-tier schools, and thought leaders across a range of fields, including Design Thinking, Psychology, Consulting, Behavioural Economics, and Neuroscience. The magazine is hard to categorize as it appeals to novices and advanced innovation practitioners and learners of Design Thinking alike.

Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research

The Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research (ECDTR) is a forum for the rapid and widespread interchange of ideas, methods, and results in Design Thinking Research. The purpose of the forum is to use electronic media for scientific communication and discussions in the Design Thinking Research community. It encompasses papers, short notes and surveys with relevance to Design Thinking Research and innovative solutions to Design Thinking research challenges with an interdisciplinary focus.


What Other DT-Experts Recommend

Here are some additional and handy lists with literature and tool kit recommendations from other design thinking experts. Enjoy!

Discussion Forums & Communities

You have urgent questions? You’re looking for like-minded peers? Or you just want to follow the latest buzz on the topic? Then you might like these forums ans discussion groups:


 

Collections of Tool and Method Kits

 

DUBBERLY-How-Do-You-Design

A Compendium of Design Process Models

Dubberly Office: “How do you design – A compendium of models” gives a great overview on the most common models of design, innovation and creativity.

dSchool-Bootcamp-Bootleg

Stanford Bootcamp Bootleg

A handy collection of basic tools and methods that are taught at the d.schools in Stanford and Potsdam.

Kelley-Creative-Confidence-Toolkit

Creative Confidence Tool Collection

A handy collection of basic tools and methods as recommended by the founder of IDEO, David Kelley.

 

Google Ventures Design Resources

A collection of best practices on team work,design research, the organization of design sprints and many topics more. All with a focus on start-ups.

 

Intuit Labs

Intuit is a company, which has undergone a massive cultural change guided by design thinking and lean start-up principles. Here they share some of their stories and methods.

 

SAP Design Thinking Playbook

The design thinking and Ux community at SAP also regularly publishes resources on their user experience community site.

 

IDEO-HCD-kit

IDEO Design (Method) Kit

The IDEO HCD Method Kit is a classic and invaluable resource for any ‘design thinker’. It encompasses a basic set of design tools, rules and methods one can use in everyday (business) life.

 

 

FROG Collective Action Method Kit

The FROG Collective Action Tool Kit is geared towards local change agents who want to transform communities. Nevertheless the methods can be used in many other contexts, too.

 

 

HPI Prototyping Cards

The Prototyping Card Set from the HPI Potsdam guides design thinking novices in building the ‘right prototype’ in every situation. The cards can be downloaded or ordered at Amazon.

 

DT-For-Educators-IDEO

IDEO Design Thinking For Educators Kit

The IDEO Design Thinking For Educators Kit is geared towards the needs of those K12 schools and teachers, who believe that a design thinking mindset should be developed from very early days on.

 

101-Methods-Kumar

The IIT.ID Methods Collection: 101 Design Methods

This book is one of those rare gems, where you might say: It’s the only one I’ll ever need. Decades of IIT’s experience with design and strategy (modeling) methods crammed into 336 pages. Presented by Vijay Kumar, professor in Strategic Design Planning and the Design Methods programs of IIT.ID.

 

Circular-Design-Guide-IDEO-AllenMcArthur

The Circular (Economy) Design Guide

How can we as leaders, designers, and strategists factor in the limits of growth into our work? This guide and tool-set helps you incorporate a Circular Economy perspective when developing your ‘next’ truly sustainable product-service system or business model. Brought to you by Ellen McArthur Foundation and IDEO.

 

GOV-UK-Service-Toolkit

GOV.UK Service Toolkit

Not only useful to people in the UK government. The toolkit from the GDS brings together all the things that are available to help teams building government services. So, administrations of the world: Take note!

 

Universal-Methods-Martin-Hanington

Universal Methods of Design

Another great collection of design methods. Especially recommended to beginners, to gain a quick overview.

 

IIT-Brains-Behaviour-Design-Group

Brains, Behaviour, and Design Toolkit

A toolkit, derived from research into behavioural economics. It helps you to make use of peoples typical thinking and behaviour pattern biases and nudge them into certain desired behaviours accordingly.

 

IBM Design Thinking Field Guide

IBM Design Thinking Field Guide

The public version of the IBM Design Thinking Field Guide introduces its readers to IBM’s take on design thinking and how they adapted and merged the approach with agile practices.

LUMA Method Cards

LUMA Method Cards

The category system of the LUMA method cards is simple yet clever. Great for planning and organizing project work with first time clients or teams, who are not savvy yet in using HCD methods.

SAP Scenes

SAP Scenes

Scenes is a storyboard creation set. You can build products and service scenarios fast, collaboratively and iteratively — without the need of refined drawing skills.

 

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Design Thinking-related Podcasts

If you are more the listener kind of person you might like this little collection of design (thinking) podcasts.


Innovate By Design: Design Thinking Scaling and Adaption in Big Organizations

In this podcast, innovation scholar and design thinking adaption expert Ingo Rauth interviews innovations leaders and program managers about the challenges of scaling design thinking in big corporates.

Latest Episodes of the Innovate by Design Podcast

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The Design of Business — The Business of Design

Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut are the instructors of the Yale School of Management’s first design course. In their podcast „The Design of Business/The Business of Design“, they explore the intersection of design and business with the help of guest lecturers from their classes.

Latest Episodes of the The Design of Business — The Business of Design Podcast

S11E8: Poetry is Anti Capitalist with Tracy K. Smith

August 7, 2024, 10:00 am

Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer prize winning poet, professor and librettist who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2017-2019. She’s published five poetry collections, two librettos and one memoir-manifesto. She is also a Professor of En...

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S11E7: Using Design to Show the World Your Truth with Dionna Dorsey and Production Designer Olivia Peebles

July 24, 2024, 10:00 am

In this episode of DB|BD Ellen McGirt and Jessica Helfand talk with two extraordinary women from two seemingly different corners of the design world: Dionna Dorsey and Olivia Peebles. We say “seemingly” because, while they occupy differe...

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S11E6: Why an Inclusive Global Economy is a Redesign Project with Mastercard’s Shamina Singh

June 26, 2024, 10:00 am

Twenty years ago, Shamina Singh took what might seem like an unlikely leap from a decade-long career as a labor and political organizer into an executive position at one of the world’s biggest financial institutions. To Singh, this leap ...

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S11E5: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert on Talent, Activism, and the Business of Basketball

June 12, 2024, 10:00 am

The WNBA is both the moment and a movement.  Approximately 400,000 fans attended WNBA games during the first month of the 2024 season, the highest first month attendance in 26 years. An average of 1.32 million viewers are tuning into eac...

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S11E4: Richard Buery and Robin Hood Are Building a Coalition to Tackle Poverty in NYC

May 29, 2024, 10:00 am

Richard Buery is the CEO of Robin Hood, New York City’s largest poverty fighting organization. It supports high-impact community organizations and partners with state and local governments to elevate New Yorkers out of poverty. In 2023 a...

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S11E3: The Healthy Materials Lab is Making Housing Healthier for Everyone

May 15, 2024, 10:00 am

 In 2015, interior designer Jonsara Ruth and architect Alison Mears received a grant to study the use of building materials in affordable housing. This grant led to the creation of the Healthy Materials Lab, a design-led research lab bas...

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S11E2: How Franklin Leonard is using The Black List to Redesign Hollywood

May 1, 2024, 9:00 am

Franklin Leonard is the founder and CEO of The Black List, a platform that nurtures emerging screenwriters and gives screenplays that aren’t attached to a big producer, actor or studio a chance to be produced. Since The Black List’s foun...

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S11E1: How to Throw a Party to Change the World with Carrie Mae Weems

April 17, 2024, 9:00 am

Carrie Mae Weems is a multidisciplinary artist. Her body of work stretches over four decades and across many mediums, but with a singular focus—  depicting the reality of Black life.  

Weems talks about her work, her role in public life, ...

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Feed Drop: Design Observer x Mastercard

May 23, 2023, 3:00 pm

While The Design of Business | The Business of Design is between seasons, we wanted to share with you a recent conversation we think you will find valuable. Previous DB|BD co-hosts Jessica Helfand and Ellen McGirt sat down with Design Ob...

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S10E12: Decolonizing Design

March 14, 2023, 3:00 pm

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook is a guidebook to the institutional transformation of design theory and practice by restoring the long-excluded cultures of Indigenous, Black, and People of Color communities.

To hear more...

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S10E11.5: Minisode

February 28, 2023, 3:00 pm

Kaleena Sales and Omari Souza discuss past episodes featuring Kunal Kapoor and Dori Tunstall.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

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S10E11: Dr. Dori Tunstall

February 14, 2023, 3:00 pm

Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is the Dean of the Faculty of Design at Ontario College of Art and Design.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

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S10E10: Kunal Kapoor

January 24, 2023, 2:00 pm

Kunal Kapoor is chief executive officer of Morningstar.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!
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S10E9.5: Minisode

January 10, 2023, 2:00 pm

Kaleena Sales and Omari Souza discuss past episodes featuring Norman Teague and Kim Erwin.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

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S10E9: Kim Erwin

December 27, 2022, 2:00 pm

Kim Erwin is the Director of the Equitable Healthcare Lab and Associate Professor of Practice at IIT Institute of Design.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favor...

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S10E8: Norman Teague

December 13, 2022, 2:00 pm

Norman Teague is a designer and community builder who specializes in custom furniture design.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcast app!

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S10E7.5: Minisode

November 29, 2022, 3:00 pm

In this month’s minisode Kaleena and Omari take a listen to past episodes featuring Richard Ting and Marcia Lausen.

To hear more from our archive, find The Design of Business | The Business of Design on Apple podcasts, or your favorite p...

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O’Reilly Design Podcast

The O’Reilly Design Podcast explores how experience design — and experience designers — are shaping business, the Internet of Things, and other domains. Thus, design thinking is of course a topic often touched here.

Latest Episodes of the O'Reilly Design Podcast

Julie Stanford on vetting designs through rapid experimentation

August 17, 2017, 12:20 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Quickly test ideas like a design thinker.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rap...

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John Whalen on using brain science in design

July 27, 2017, 11:00 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Designing for the “six minds,” the importance of talking like a human, and the future of predictive AI.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with John Whalen, chief experience officer at 10 Pearls, a digi...

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Cheryl Platz on designing the Amazon Echo Look

July 13, 2017, 2:00 pm

The O'Reilly Design Podcast: Designing in secret, designing for voice, and why improv is an essential design skill.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Platz, senior designer at Microsoft for the Azure Portal and Marketp...

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Cynthia Savard Saucier on design at Shopify

June 8, 2017, 11:25 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: The sombrero-shaped designer, leading design teams, and designing for retail.

This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keyno...

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Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich on building a customer-driven culture at Microsoft

May 25, 2017, 10:50 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: What makes healthy teams healthy, being customer obsessed, and design and research at Microsoft.

This week, I sit down with Travis Lowdermilk senior UX designer at Microsoft, and Jessica Rich, UX researcher at...

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Matt LeMay on the four principles of product management

May 11, 2017, 11:00 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: The connective nature of product management, “no work above, no work below,” and the importance of talking to people who aren’t your customers.

This week, I sit down with Matt LeMay, product coach, consultant...

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Nate Walkingshaw on capturing the approaches and techniques of successful product managers

April 27, 2017, 11:05 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Leadership, the design of product teams, and hiring optimists.

This week, I sit down with Nate Walkingshaw, chief experience officer of Pluralsite and co-author of Product Leadership. We talk about hard and so...

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David Farkas on how to approach user research

April 13, 2017, 11:00 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Asking the right questions, conducting research in an agile environment, and conscious confidence.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with David Farkas, associate director of user experience at EPAM and...

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Jonathan Shariat on the importance of identifying your ethical design red line

March 30, 2017, 11:05 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Design ethics and value systems, and what the Ford Pinto can teach us about the importance of human-centered design.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jonathan Shariat, senior interaction designer...

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Noah Iliinsky on design at Amazon

March 16, 2017, 11:55 am

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: The importance of intentional thinking, user-centered data visualizations, and separating functionality from implementation.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Noah Iliinsky, senior UX architect at...

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Ben Yoskovitz on lean product development, using metrics to build successful products and companies

March 2, 2017, 2:55 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Build measure learn, the One Metric That Matters, and balancing hubris and humility.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Ben Yoskovitz, investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product at VarageSale...

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Simon Endres on designing in an arms race of high-tech materials

February 16, 2017, 12:00 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: The guiding light of strategy, designing Allbirds, and what makes the magic of a brand identity.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Simon Endres, creative director and partner at Red Antler. We tal...

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Kat Holmes on Microsoft’s human-led approach to tackling society’s challenges

February 2, 2017, 12:00 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Building bridges across disciplines, universal vs. inclusive design, and what playground design can teach us about inclusion.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kat Holmes, principal design directo...

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Randy Hunt on design at Etsy

January 19, 2017, 12:25 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Collaborating with engineering, hiring for humility, and the code debate.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Randy Hunt, VP of design at Etsy. We talk about the culture at Etsy, why it’s important ...

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Andra Keay on robots crossing the chasm

January 5, 2017, 12:30 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Identifying use cases for robots, the five laws of robots, and the ethics and philosophy of robotics.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics. We...

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Jay Trimble on user-centered design, Agile, and design thinking at NASA

December 22, 2016, 12:00 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Solving problems, user-centered design, and culture at NASA.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations and ground data system manager, for the Resource Prospector Lunar Rov...

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Dan Mall on designing with friends

December 8, 2016, 12:40 pm

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Pricing design, charting your learning path, and working with friends.

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Dan Mall, founder and director of Superfriendly. We talk about what skills designers should...

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The McKinsey Podcast

Yes, you read right. McKinsey now also practices and believes in design thinking. In their episode “The power of design Thinking”, their Podcast team explores the topic and its application in organizations.

Listen to the episode “The Power of Design Thinking”

 


IDEO Futures

The IDEO Futures podcasts started out as a prototype. By now, the team has released more than forty episodes of interviews with guests from the creative industry and the business sphere.

Latest Episodes of the IDEO Futures Podcast

Episode 49: Steve Vassallo + The Way to Design

August 18, 2017, 5:27 pm – Steve Vassallo is a General Partner at Foundation Capital and works at the intersection of business, technology, and design—all things close to our hearts. Steve joins Diego on episode 49 to talk about his new book, The Way to Design. ... [ Listen to the episode ]

Episode 48: Gerber tokens, ICOs, umbrellas + a whole lot of VDTBOM

August 3, 2017, 8:32 pm – Joe Gerber is BACK for a full episode of VDTBOM. Diego and Joe get nerdy pretty fast, but hang in there — mind blowing venture design awaits. They catch up on what's happening in the IDEO CoLab (www.ideocolab.com), learn about ICOs and t... [ Listen to the episode ]

Episode 47: Michael Dearing on lessons from a life of designing + building remarkable ventures

June 20, 2017, 9:05 pm – If you don't already follow Michael Dearing on Twitter (twitter.com/mcgd), you'll want to after hearing this conversation with Diego (twitter.com/metacool). Michael is the founder of Harrison Metal and joins Diego to talk about venture m... [ Listen to the episode ]

Episode 46: #primalnumbers with JR Hildebrand, Reilly Brennan + Clay Dean

May 25, 2017, 7:39 pm – As we approach the 101st running of the Indianapolis 500 this weekend, three of our favorite (and renowned) automotive design geeks join Diego to discuss the lost art of hand painted racing numbers. Graphic designers, car enthusiasts, an... [ Listen to the episode ]

 


Highresolution.Design

A great video podcast by Bobby Ghoshal and Jared Erondu on product design and design thinking. They interview design (thinking) leaders in the industry on their take of practicing design and innovation.

Latest Episodes of the Highresolution.Design Podcast

 


TED Radio Hour – The Power of Design Episode

Design is all around us, but much of it could be better. In this episode, TED speakers talk about the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world.

Listen to the episode “The Power of Design”

 

 

Intro Videos:

What is Design Thinking?

Expert Videos:

Embedding Design Thinking In The Organization

If you are new to design thinking, you might enjoy these introduction videos.

  • Stanford Webinar - Design Thinking vs. The Lean Startup

If you already deal with design thinking adaption and scaling, you might be interested in these videos.


 

Design Thinking MOOCs

The list below is not complete. It represents a ‘best-of collection’ of all the design thinking MOOCs a team of HDTRP researchers screened in 2015.

Course Name What the MOOC is about Duration Provider Platform Free?
Inspirations for Design: A Course on Human-Centered Research This course will introduce you to crucial methods in design research, which will help you to discover inspirations for innovative solutions. We take a task-based approach to build your competencies and skills: You will learn to spot workarounds, observe potential users in their context and explore the basic skills of conducting insightful interviews. 5 Weeks Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam University openHPI Yes
Design Thinking for Innovation This course focuses on the application of design thinking in business contexts. It draws on examples from how DT is being applied in different organizations. 5 Weeks University of Virginia Coursera Yes
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design A great introductory course into human-centered design and its application in social innovation. It requires the participants to form teams and work on local challenges. Useful for instable internet connection since PDF files are the main content delivery medium. 7 Weeks +Acumen in collaboration with IDEO.org NovoEd Yes
Basics of Design Research This course focuses on human-centered design research. It provides an overview of frequently used basic methods for conducting field research and identifying users. 5 Weeks OpenSAP OpenSAP Yes
Design Kit: Prototyping Following the learnings from the human-centered design course, this course focuses on prototyping skills and collecting feedback. 4 Weeks +Acumen in collaboration with IDEO.org NovoEd Yes
Design Thinking Part I: Insights to Inspiration The focus of this course is on conducting design research for need finding. 5 Weeks Darden School of Business University of Virginia No
Design Thinking Part II: Ideas to Action This course follows up on the learnings from its predecessor and focuses on creating innovative solutions based on the user research insights from the first part. 4 Weeks Darden School of Business University of Virginia No
IDEO U Different courses covering aspects of design thinking, the ‘IDEO way’. 4 Weeks IDEO IDEO U No
Getting Started: Agile Meets Design Thinking The course combines methods and tools from agile and design thinking to teach an effective approach to product development. 5 Weeks University of Virginia Coursera Yes
Designing the Future An introductory course into different design approaches, including design thinking, and their application for today’s challenges. 5 Weeks RMIT University Future Learn No
Product Design: Delft Design Approach An introductory online course, which teaches how to design meaningful products and services. 7 Weeks Delft University EdX No
Design Thinking for Leading and Learning This course focuses on the application of design thinking in classrooms and in K-12 education. 6 Weeks MIT EdX Yes
Innovation of Products and Services: MIT’s Approach to Design Thinking This course teaches, how to blend the perspectives of marketing, design and engineering into a systematic approach to delivering innovation. 8 Weeks EMERITUS Institute of Management in collaboration with MITsloan Executive Education Emeritus No
Human-Centered Design: An Introduction As part of a specialization track, this module focuses on different strategies from design thinking and how to create human-centered innovation in different domains. 4 Weeks UC San Diego Coursera Yes

 


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This resource collection is compiled by Jan Schmiedgen with the support of our research colleagues in the HPDTRP. Special thanks go to Karen von Schmieden , Julia von Thienen, and Mana Taheri.

 

References

Dorst, K. (2010). The Nature of Design Thinking. DTRS8 Interpreting Design Thinking: Design Thinking Research Symposium Proceedings, 131–139. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/research/handle/10453/16590
Roth, B. (2015). The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life. HarperBusiness.
Meinel, C., Weinberg, U., & Krohn, T. (2015). Design Thinking Live (1.). Murmann Verlag.
Leifer, L., & Meinel, C. (2016). Manifesto: Design Thinking Becomes Foundational. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel, & L. Leifer (Eds.), Design Thinking Research (pp. 1–4). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19641-1_1
Carlgren, L., Rauth, I., & Elmquist, M. (2016). Framing Design Thinking: The Concept in Idea and Enactment. Journal for Creativity and Innovation Management, 25(2016), 38–57.
Kolko, J. (2010). Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis (Auflage: 1). Oxford University Press, USA.
Brown, T. (2009). Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation: How Design Thinking Can Transform Organizations and Inspire Innovation. Harper Business.
Martin, R. L. (2009). Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage. Mcgraw-Hill Professional.
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