Design thinking

Cross, Nigel (2024). Design thinking. In: Darbellay, Frédéric ed. Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 170–173.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317967.ch37

Abstract

From origins in professional design practice, design thinking has developed to embody ways of working for the creative resolution of issues in a variety of situations. Initially seen as forming foundations for a science of design, research into how designers think and work came to establish the discipline of design, based around understanding and explicating the implicit processes of designerly ways of knowing, acting and thinking. These implicit or “intuitive” processes have been found to constitute effective competencies for dealing with unique, complex, value-laden situations. Some of these design thinking processes became widely promoted and adopted outside professional design practice, for pursuing innovation within business, industry, technology and society. From these developments of design thinking there is now emerging a transdisciplinary approach towards a way of thinking and working that embodies a form of strategic, adaptive, co-operative design intelligence for engaging creatively with problematic situations.

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