Design Thinking
A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $48.99
Publisher Description
Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes. Not just for architects or product developers, design thinking can be applied across many disciplines to solve real-world problems and reconcile dilemmas. It is a tool that may trigger inspiration and the imagination, and lead to innovative ideas that are responsive to the needs and issues of stakeholders.
Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone will assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday. It renders accessible the creative problem-solving abilities that we all possess by providing a dynamic framework and practical tools for thinking imaginatively and critically. Every aspect of design thinking is explained and analyzed together with insights on navigating through the process.
Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. A combination of theory and application makes this volume immediately useful and personally relevant.
Customer Reviews
A review for Andrew Pressman’s Design Thinking
Today’s environment is providing rapid insight through the development of artificial intelligence and technology. In his book Design Thinking: A guide for creative problem solving for everyone, author and architect Andrew Pressman provided the rules and applications of design thinking as a problem solving method. Pressman included applications to solving problems in the fields of architecture, product design, writing, medicine, and several others. It is enough to help students who want to learn about design thinking as a theory in practice.
The texbook helps students define and identify its application through several real life case studies. Pressman discussed how design thinking has been successfully applied to develop good solutions for complex problems in recent times. He also shared the leading thoughts that have designed and led to those solutions. His purpose and writing are clear and so is his love for the theory. We can use design thinking to accomplish much even in our daily lives.
Students can easily grasp the context of the literature to help them develop their own strengths. Understanding the context of the applications and its innovative solutions will help students who are exploring the design thinking method. The book featured chapters focused on business, health and science, law, and writing. Some of the cases studied included applications to pharmaceutical product design, cancer treatment, writing drafts, iterative design, culinary arts, technology, and problem definition.
I recommend this book because it provides clear definitions of familiar terms that design students encounter on the field. For example, the word iterative, which is defined as the process of repetition, is one common word that many students find in the field of practice. The author is quick with his analysis of the theory and also provided clear standards to meet in his philosophy. Design thinking is approached as a proven theory that will work in many fields and it only increases my understanding for other use cases such as film, and game or level design.