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Design thinking: why should you think like a designer?   

By Dr. Philip Fung

What is your perception of a designer? If you have seen the movie The Devil Wears Prada, those fashion designers are portrayed as self-centered, artistic, subjective, emotional, and passionate. Unfortunately, this image of a designer is probably a stereotype of some famous designers.

In 2005, I co-founded a carpet design firm with two veteran designers. We have six designers working on carpet projects for leading five-stars hotels. In my working relationship with designers, none of them are like those in the movie. But I must say that designers do think differently. I had no clue about this until I learned something called Design Thinking.

Design thinking is a problem-solving methodology developed within IDEO, the famous international design firm founded in 1991 by David Kelly. He was a good friend of Steve Jobs, and his company designed the first mouse for Apple. IDEO focused on developing consumer products in the first ten years. Later they were approached by new clients on projects like restructuring a charity foundation, revamping the education system in developing countries, and creating a learning environment for a university. Finally, IDEO realized that they could apply their way of a problem- solving in many situations, and David Kelly coined it Design Thinking. 

If you want to learn about design thinking, the best place is the Institute of Design at Stanford (often called the d-school), which David Kelly also found. But there are also many local short design thinking courses. 

What is design thinking?

Tim Brown, IDEO’s present CEO, says that design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation. There are three overlapping spaces.  

1. Inspiration The design process begins with a problem or opportunity that motivates people to search for solutions. Team members need to spend time in the field to understand the problem or opportunity. Empathy is the most crucial skill in the inspiration space. 

2. Ideation After spending time in the field, the ideation space is to let team members consolidate what they have seen and heard. Then, new insights will start to emerge. Divergent thinking and a structured brainstorming process will help the team to generate many choices and options.

3. Implementation The core of the implementation space is prototyping, turning ideas into actual products and services that could be tested and refined. There are many ways to prototyping, such as a paper model, role-play, or storytelling using storyboards or videos. 

This short video, will give you a quick overview of design thinking.