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Design Thinking Process

About Pieter Baert

From To

MAKING MAKING
PEOPLE >
THINGS
WANT PEOPLE
THINGS WANT
Online marketing & Designing digital
digital advertising services & products
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W h a t actually is design
thinking?
And what it’s not.
Design thinking is often
confused with visual design
“Design is not just
what it looks like and
feels like. Design is
how it works.”
Steve J o b s , co-founder Apple
“Everything is
designed.”

Start stop > lower emissions > lower taxes > I can aff ord driving pleasure
“Even my car
insurance broker
uses design.”

Minor car accident (stress) > paperwork (confused) > printed stickers (easy)
“We moved from
thinking of ourselves
a s designers to
thinking of ourselves
a s design thinkers.”

David Kelley, co-founder Ideo


Actually design thinking
is less about thinking
and more about doing
Five Stages in Designing
Thinking Process

Em pa thise Idea te

Define Prototype

Test
Design Thinking Process

• Design thinking process starts with getting a deep insight into the user
needs and wants.
• Analyze the gathered data and identify rare problems.
• Create innovative solutions to address these problems

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Step 1: Empathize with Users

• This is a discovery phase to gain insights into users’ real needs.


• A team of experts meet the users and try to find out their concerns.
• Observe, monitor or empathize with users to understand their
expectations, feelings and pain points.

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Step 2: Define the Problem

• Put together all the gathered information, analyze, observe and


synthesize it to define core problems.
• Define the problem in a human-cantered way to solve human
problems.
• Totally human centered approach
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Step 3: Ideate New Solutions

• Generate ideas and new solutions to the problems.


• Have as many as possible ideas to begin with.
• Using ideation techniques, investigate or test the ideas to find best
possible solution.

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Step 4: Prototyping

• Create conceptual prototypes of the product to investigate possible solutions.


• Investigate different aspects of the problem and explore how each prototype
would fix the problem.
• Here, you will have better idea of users’ behaviors, feelings and
expectations.

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Step 5: Prototype Testing

• Test the selected prototypes with real users and internal stakeholders.
• Observe how well they handle the identified problems.
• By the end of this step, you would get an idea whether the solution is
accepted, needs improvement, re-examined or completely rejected.

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Design Thinking Process

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Wrapping Up
• In today’s digital world, it is highly critical for businesses to adopt new
technologies, transform their business models and create new value
system.
• It is also difficult to create a successful ecosystem and thrive in highly
competitive market.
• Design thinking is an effective tool to tackle this problem that this
transition brings up.

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