Human-Centered Design Thinking Online Resources

 

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Below you can find a light-read on what Design Thinking is. We hope they will spark your curiosity!

 

• dmi: 2018 Design Value Award Winner / Wavin Academy: A Business Design Journey
   

• The Total Economic ImpactTM of IBM's Design Thinking Practice - A Forrester Total Economic ImpactTM Study Commissioned by IBM (Feb 2018)

 

• HBR: Managing 21st-Century Political Risk, Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart (2018)

 

• Rethinking Six Management Mantras for Better Innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Polina Makievsky (May 2018)

 

• HBR: Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders - Jeneanne Rae (Apr 2014)

 

• HBR: Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea - Roger Martin (Jan 2017)

 

• Design Thinking CS Lean startup: A Comparison of Two User-driven Innovation Strategies, Roland Mueller and Katja Thoring (Aug 2012)

 

• HBR: Design Thinking Comes of Age, Jon Kolko (Sept 2015)

 

• IBM: Design Thinking: Principles, Loop, Keys

 

• Fast Company: Design Thinking…. What is That? (Mar 2006)

 

• Bloomberg Businessweek: The DesigN issue (25 original thinkers solve all your issues)

 

• Forbes Design Thinking: A Unified Framework for Innovation – Reuven Cohen (Mar 2014)

 

• NPR: Design Thinking Could Help Those Who Want to Get Unstuck – Shankar Vedatam (Jan 2017)

 

• Huffington Post: Time to Re-Think Design Thinking, Advertising Week (Dec 2017)

 

• WSJ: CIO Journal, DesigNThinking

 

• Medium: Design Thinking

 

 

 

We have compiled a short compendium of resources pertaining to our field for you to browse through. To make things easier, we like to use online platforms/software for applying Human Centered Design Thinking when working with teams and organizations:

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• Smaply

• Ideator

• Slack

• Mural