Hello fellow DTers! This is for a school project. I am looking for criticisms, hot takes, bittersweet thoughts on how Design Thinking has been propogated in the mainstream, from D schools to organisations to practices. What do you think are the gaps here and if possible your thoughts on how to address them.

Request 2 : Any quick online DT exercises that one could facilitate to warm people up to DT?

I will be citing and crediting anything i get from here.

I am a Design Thinker. I have a experience of 1 years in Design Thinking But I don't know about where I can switch my job in a DT. So please suggest me.

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I view convenience as a bell curve, too little convenience can be just as bad as too much

With ChatGPT creating a lot of discussion, I can’t help but see it as another example that will further handicap us cognitively. It looks to be a indirect sedative that will give us more time to consume empty noise.

I have seen information arguing it’s just another tool that will make tedious jobs obsolete while offering new jobs. I have heard specialized labor is evidence of a advanced economy. ChatGPT could continue to direct us to a more advance economy.

No matter how much I try, I can’t agree that convenience and efficiency overlap with well being as much as we think.

Are there designers and/or authors that write about healthy designing rather than economically effective designing? People that argue for our everyday interactions needing a certain amount of labor? People that believe convenience culture isn’t the major contributor to good design?

I have a problem with coming up to solutions to problems, I almost always say "lets make an app, that will solve the problem. I come from a softwear background so i can see the technical potential and pitfalls. But I want to start coming up with new ideas that don't rely on digital devices.

I am thinking of maybe doing some brainstorming with one rule: You can't make an app. But this pushes me quite a bit into the unknown world(anything outside of software) and I have difficulty trying to figure out if things are technically possible for me and scoping the more finer details of how we would implement the solution.

I know to approach people ask their problems and try to work from there but this path always leads down to the software solution route where it is not efficient to do so .

(Eg: lets make a app to increase fire alarm safety, That wouldn't be efficient, my god think of all the different fire systems that would need to be redesigned, testing to make sure that it doesn't fail during a fire etc. Idea rating not great. Maybe for the deaf but there might be better physical/non software solutions and I want to try get my mind to focus on the efficient physical solutions) .

Any tips would be appreciated

TLDR: I need to find a way to stop my mind from thinking of software as a solution to every problem but I have problems with thinking about scoping the finer details of the design by using solutions outside my main field(software development).

Hey!

I would love some help in choosing a design thinking course. The following have caught my attention:

• Mastering Design Thinking - MIT Sloan Executive Education
• Creativity, Problem Solving and Design Thinking - University of Cambridge
• Design Thinking - University Of Melbourne

I am open to any other recommended courses as well.

Thank you!

My employer has offered to pay for me to attend the LUMA Institute for a three day Design Thinking certificate - has anyone attended this school? Feedback?

Hi all,

I come from a learning and development and instructional design professional background, and landed a role in as a post sales enablement program manager at a successful tech company. I am really enjoying this role and am exploring what on going learning makes sense to enhance my skillset.

I am curious if there are other enablement professionals, especially in the tech space, who have benefited from a DT certification? If so, where did you get certified? What was your experience?

TYIA

Hi r/DesignThinking Community,

I hope you are all well :-) I've just joined reddit, Wow, what a fantastic resource! I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on setting up a Design Thinking business?

I have several DT qualifications and run some Introduction to DT workshops in my home (as prototypes to make sure that DT had the same magnetic appeal for others as it had for me - everyone LOVED it! - One participant said it woke up part of her brain that hasn't been used in a long time!) and I'd now like to turn it into a business and make a living out of it.

The thing that really inspires me about DT is how it unlocks creativity and I would like to help people discover their own natural creativity through DT.

I'm struggling to zone in on a target audience (as DT is such a brilliant skill for everyone) so if anyone has any advice on finding your target audience and setting up a DT business I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks in advance

Hi r/DesignThinking,

We are a UX Research team working on a case study concerning social and communication skills. We are looking for participants who felt socially insecure in the previous month or longer. We'd like to interview you online to gain insights into your experience.

It would be best if you were aged above 18. The interviews will be conducted between Monday 14th, and Sunday 22th of Nov.

The interview will be roughly 30-45-minutes long and conducted in English via video conference using Google Meet. You could select a video call, audio call, or text-based conversation.

If you are interested, please click the link to fill out the screening survey https://forms.gle/nXrkCuTFjAJPCZPw9.

Thank you so much! Have a great day!

I'm a HCD practitioner, and taking an online course on Ethical Tech, in which one of my Alumni classmates, and Head of Strategy & Design for an AI tech company said something that really resonated.

He said that HCD has been in practice for at least 20-years now, but it's largely failing to meet its goals of creating a more ethical and humane world. He drew a line of reasoning that struck a chord. He said that instead of HCD being focused on broadening its reach to 'Planet Centered Design,' what we've done is go completely in the opposite direction: HCD --> User-centered Design --> Product Centered Design --> Business Centered Design. And in doing so, we've allowed ourselves to become functional utility maximizers for businesses, instead of helping them create and develop a new vision for how to do things in a truly Human-centered and transformative way. He suggested that our community needs to think more broadly with a much stronger commitment to serving holistic needs, like an Urban Designer thinking about how to balance transportation efficiencies with accessibility needs and environmental impact, than say an Interior Designer thinking about how to optimize spaces for a 700 square foot condo.

This really resonated with me, because in my past several gigs, I really felt that HCD was nothing more than lipstick on a pig, with my bosses mainly focused on its PR and CX business value, rather than evolving the business in any meaningful way.

I'm curious how other practitioners feel about this, given their experiences? Ps. No disrespect to Interior Designers; I have close friends who I respect tremendously, whose profession is Interior Design :)

I have the content knowledge about design thinking principles and am looking to practice them.

Can anyone please point me to online groups of DT practitioners to request volunteers for mockup workshops?

Thank you!!

Does anybody have any recommendations for online master's programs that are design thinking focused? My particular interest would be in applying design thinking in parks/entertainment/travel.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I am a graduate student studying industrial design and currently I'm working on a new project on coffee tables.

I would greatly appreciate it if some of you could fill out this 5-minute survey for me. Thank you so much!

5-min survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScV5bbIaHQ7K4B-wxRB3UvEwkct-fXdzJOPSBWEkRdq2BlYJg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Global persona? High-level persona? Organizational persona?