The Importance Of Design Thinking

For the past few years, design thinking has made its breakthrough on education, business, and design fields. Design thinking is basically a new interactive process of thinking, or problem-solving method for the resolution of problems. Which differs from traditional design approaches in specific ways. It involves more creative and user-centered design approach.

‘You cannot hold a design in your hand. It is not a thing. It is a process. A system. A way of thinking.’
Bob Gill, Graphic Design as a Second Language. However, design thinking is present in each stage of journey from the brief until the finished work. Furthermore, different solutions can also be produced for any given brief and these can differ widely in the levels of creativity,

The methods used by designers to generate and refine creative ideas, the key considerations that help shape them and the feedback
and review elements that allow design teams to learn from each job and contribute to future commissions. It should not come as a big surprise that human thinking could be directed in more than one way when there are different ends in mind. Basically design thinking is primarily about the path, which is being distinguished from its more knowable way of thinking, which is scientific thinking. Simply because design thinking is focusing more on creating the artifacts of an evolving culture unlike scientific thinking’s path that leads toward the discovery of fundamental knowledge, a rigorous process of sifting experience into facts. On the other hand, scientific thinking, which is focused on understanding things better, is necessarily tied to design thinking’s project of making better things. Contrary to scientific thinking, design thinking depends on the reliable to pursue a preferred future that is desirable, possible, useful, and potentially wonderful end

Hence, at this stage it is to explore and experiments with models, dummies and storyboards so that we can portray a glimpse of how the design will look like in reality, not to mention this method also can be used to convey ideas so that they can be understood in this context.

Implementation

Lastly, this stage looks at how ideas come to life through production. Therefore, implementation must ensure that design details are put into effect and that the client is satisfied with the final product.

Unlike analytical thinking, which is associated with the breaking down of ideas, design thinking is more likely a creative process based on the building up of ideas. While analytical approaches focus on narrowing the design choices, Design thinking focuses on going broad, at least during the early stages of the process.

In design thinking, designers do not make any early judgments about the quality of ideas. As a result, this minimizes the fear of failure and maximizes input and participation in the ideation (brainstorming) and prototype phases. However, the infamous phrase “Think outside the box” also can be categories as “Wild ideas”. Since this style of thinking is believed to lead to creative solutions that would not have emerged