Design Thinking Techniques
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Collection of publicly available free tools and methods for Design Thinking.
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Collection of publicly available free tools and methods in the Internet for Design Thinking.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Design thinking started as a human-centric framework for problem solving, focusing not on single objects but on systems instead: the single object and it's context of use as well the user. In this sense design is more than look-n-feel. Steve Jobs phrased it in his own extreme consequence: "Design is how it works.". This attitude leads to Design Thinking as modern form of product design.The list collects internet portals (Portal) and individual web sites on Design Thinking methods and tools.
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Board of Innovation
Board of Innovation. Belgium Innovation consultant company shares free, hands-on, easy-to-use, actionable innovation tools.
Creativity Techniques
Kreativitätstechniken und Kreativitätsmethoden lassen sich grundsätzlich in intuitive und diskursive Ansätze aufteilen. Intuitive Ansätze liefern in kurzer Zeit sehr viele Ideen. Sie fördern Gedankenassoziationen bei der Suche nach neuen Ideen. Diskursive Ansätze dagegen führen den Prozess der Lösungssuche systematisch und bewusst in einzelnen, logisch fortschreitenden Schritten durch. Dieser Artikel stellt mehr als 20 Kreativitätstechniken und Kreativitätsmethoden vor.
DesignKit – Ideo.org
Ideo.org brings you tools for human-centered design as a practical, repeatable approach to arriving at innovative solutions.
How-Might-We Questioning
How-Might-We Questioning is a format to reframe issues in opportunity statements to spark creativity, brainstorming, and innovation: How might we make our entrance more inviting that our visitors feel more at home. How-Might-We Questions are a simple way to improve your products or services. In design thinking, HMW questions open up to Ideation sessions where you explore ideas, which can help you solve your design challenge in an innovative way. In product development and engineering, How-Might-We Questioning is a simple way to improve products or services.
Lightning Decision Jam
Lightning Decision Jam (LDJ) is a format for group decisioning. All open, unstructured discussion are replaced with a clear, timeboxed structured process. LDJ has its background in design thinking.
Portal: Design Research Techniques
Innovation Portal.
Portal: DESIGNPILOT
DesignPilot. Web application (Android, iOS, Windows) created by Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg, Fakultät Design. The TOOLBOX is public accessible web space with currently 172 tools for product development and 77 creativity techniques (in German only).
Portal: DESIGNPILOT-Creativity Techniques
DesignPilot. Web application (Android, iOS, Windows) created by Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg, Fakultät Design. The TOOLBOX is public accessible web space with currently 172 tools for product development and 77 creativity techniques (in German only).
Portal: Gamestorming
Gamestorming - A toolkit for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers. Gamestorming is a set of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world.
Portal: Innovation Games
Innovation Games are collaboration frameworks that you can play online or in-person with your colleagues and customers. Innovation Games help you to accurately predict what customers want, need, and will pay for.
Portal: Innovation Portal
Innovation Portal.
Portal: Interaction Design Foundation
The well-known Interaction Design Foundation brings you a collection of tools design thinking.
Portal: Stanford.d Design School
The well-known Stanford.d Design School brings you a collection of tools for design thinking.
Portal: The Open Innovation Toolkit
The Open Innovation Toolkit is a community-sourced set of best practices and principles to help you incorporate human-centered design into your product development process. The toolkit is driven by Mozilla.org.
Ramon Vullings & Marc Heleven: 27 Creativity & Innovation Techniques
27 Creativity & Innovation Techniques. 27 creativity & innovation tools is an overview of various commonly used techniques in creativity, innovation, research & development processes. All in one-pager. The techniques are grouped by Diverging & Converging techniques, Open & Closed challenges / problems, Products & Services situations, Individual & Group techniques.
thanks for the posts