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Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding user needs and fostering collaboration through a five-stage process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Key principles include user-centricity, empathy, ideation, experimentation, and a bias for action, emphasizing the importance of iteration and feedback. The approach encourages diverse perspectives and aims to create solutions that are desirable, feasible, and viable.

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Ds Principles

Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that focuses on understanding user needs and fostering collaboration through a five-stage process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Key principles include user-centricity, empathy, ideation, experimentation, and a bias for action, emphasizing the importance of iteration and feedback. The approach encourages diverse perspectives and aims to create solutions that are desirable, feasible, and viable.

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Design Thinking Principles

Design thinking principles revolve around understanding user


needs, fostering collaboration, and iterating on solutions.
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-
solving that emphasizes understanding user needs and creating
innovative solutions.
It's not a linear process; teams can move back and forth between
stages as needed.
Key principles include user-centricity, empathy, ideation,
experimentation, and a bias for action.
These principles are applied through a five-stage process:
empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.
KEY PRINCIPLES

User-centricity and Empathy:


The core of design thinking is understanding the user's needs, behaviors, and
motivations through observation and interaction.

Collaboration:
Design thinking encourages diverse perspectives and collaboration to
generate a wide range of ideas and solutions.

Ideation:
This involves brainstorming and generating multiple potential solutions to a
problem.

Experimentation and Iteration:


Teams create prototypes and test them with users, learning from feedback and
refining their solutions.
Bias for Action:
Design thinking promotes a mindset of taking action, experimenting, and
learning through doing.

Feasibility, Desirability, and Viability:


Solutions should be desirable to users, technically feasible to implement,
and viable for the organization to sustain.

Iterative Approach:
Design thinking is not a one-time process; it involves revisiting and
refining solutions based on feedback and new insights.
PHASES OF DESIGN THINKING

Empathize: Deeply understand the user's needs and challenges through


research and observation.

Define: Clearly articulate the problem statement based on the insights


gathered during the empathize phase.

Ideate: Generate a wide range of potential solutions to the defined


problem.

Prototype: Create tangible representations of the solutions to test and


refine.

Test: Evaluate the prototypes with users, gathering feedback to improve


the solutions.

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