Share Paper: Teaching Design Thinking

  1. Gray Hodgkinson, Massey University, New Zealand
Wednesday, June 26 4:00-4:20 PM Esquimalt

Abstract: As awareness of the designed experience increases, so does the desire to apply the process of design thinking to a wider range of scenarios. There is an assumption that by applying the methods that designers use to solve problems, any business or productivity challenge can be analysed and resolved in a new, insightful, invigorating manner. With hundreds of books dealing with this topic, there is a general awareness that this process can be explicitly taught and applied. This paper demonstrates how one university design school is merging design thinking strategies with well established visual research techniques to develop a process ...