Design Thinking - Understand - Improve - Apply

Foreword

Contributors

Design Thinking Research

1 The Philosophy of Design Thinking

2 Rules of Design Thinking

3 The Program Book

4 In Summary

Part I Design Thinking in Various Contexts

Design Thinking: A Fruitful Concept for IT Development?

1 Introduction: On Problem Solving in Design and Science

2 Understanding the Problem: Overcoming the Dilemma of Analytical Thinking in IT Development by Design Thinking?

3 Discussing the Context: Waterfalls, Agility, and New Design Professions

4 Discussion: On the Challenges of Translating Design Thinking into Action

5 Outlook

References

A Unified Innovation Process Model for Engineering Designers and Managers

1 Introduction

2 Unified Innovation Process Model for Engineering Designers and Managers

3 Research Methodology

4 Designers Gain Necessary Insights by Experimenting

5 Reviewers Often Discourage Experimenting

6 Discussion

7 Conclusion

References

Product Differentiation by Aesthetic and Creative Design: A Psychological and Neural Framework of Design Thinking

1 Introduction

2 Aesthetics and Creativity as Design Thinking Mechanisms

3 A Definition and Framework of Design Thinking

4 Conclusion

References

Part II Understanding Design Thinking

Re-representation: Affordances of Shared Models in Team-Based Design

1 Introduction

2 Media Models and Media Cascades

3 Cognitive Strategies

4 Experimental Data

5 Tangible Business Process Modeling

6 Conclusion

7 Future Work

References

The Co-evolution of Theory and Practice in Design Thinking – or – “Mind the Oddness Trap!”

1 From Design Thinking to Design Thinking Research

2 Experts RevealingWhat They Think About Design Thinking

3 Telling Differences, Illuminating Parallels

4 Preparing a Look Behind the Curtain: Specifying Hypotheses

5 Why Experiments Matter

6 The Challenge

7 Operationalization or: Let’s Be Concrete!

8 Looking Behind the Curtain: The Experiment

9 Design Thinkers Versus “Ordinary Students”: Results

10 Discussion

11 WhatWeWish to Pass Back

Innovation and Culture: Exploring the Work of Designers Across the Globe

1 Introduction

2 National Culture and Design Practice

3 Method

4 Insights

5 Conclusions

References

The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints

1 Introduction

2 Method

3 Results

4 Participant Creations

5 Interviews

6 Conclusion

7 Future Work

References

Part III Tools for Design Thinking

An Instrument for Real-Time Design Interaction Capture and Analysis

1 Introduction

2 Improving Design Process Instrumentation

3 A Real-Time Design Research Instrument

4 Key Findings and Contribution

5 Conclusion and Future Work

References

Tele-Board: Enabling Efficient Collaboration In Digital Design Spaces Across Time and Distance

1 Creativity Across Distances: CanWe Make ItWork?

2 Analyzing Design Thinking Working Modes

3 Evaluating Existing Tools for Remote Collaboration

4 Our Tool: Tele-Board – A Digital Whiteboard for Remote Collaboration

5 Tele-Board: User Feedback

6 Outlook and Future Work

References

Physicality in Distributed Design Collaboration

1 Introduction

2 Understanding Collaboration in Design

3 Explorations in Distributed Design

4 Plans and Issues for the Future

5 Conclusion

References

Part IV Design Thinking in Information Technology

Bringing Design Thinking to Business Process Modeling

1 Introduction

2 Background: Process Models Mediate Communication

3 Research Question: How to Improve the Quality of Communication

4 Iterating Ideas

5 Experiences with the TBPM Toolkit

6 Related Approaches

7 Research Methodology

8 Summary and Outlook

References

Agile Software Development in Virtual Collaboration Environments

1 Introduction

2 Motivation and State of the Art

3 Design Thinking for Agile Software Development

4 Virtual Collaboration

5 Summary and Outlook

References

Towards Next Generation Design Thinking: Scenario-Based Prototyping for Designing Complex Software Systems with Multiple Users

1 Introduction

2 Project Setup

3 Research Results

4 RelatedWork

5 Summary and Future Work

References