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IDEO's popularization of Design Thinking shows how a nuanced, human-centered design process can become so influential that it gets simplified into a rigid method, sometimes losing its original depth once it leaves design practice.
A prime example of a powerful design process that gained widespread influence, and at times faced challenges in its translation beyond its original disciplinary context, is IDEO's formalized "Design Thinking" practice. Initially a nuanced, iterative, and human-centered approach developed within a design consultancy, its simplification into a rigid, linear methodology for non-designers has, at times, led to superficial application and a disconnection from its original depth and ethical grounding. This illustrates how a powerful design process can be both widely influential and inadvertently abused when removed from its original disciplinary context, highlighting the importance of thoughtful translation and responsible application of "designerly ways of doing."
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Books and references
- Design Issues · both placed under Process
- Change by Design · discussed together in section 100
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · discussed together in section 100
- Design, When Everybody Designs · discussed together in section 100
- Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design · discussed together in section 100
- The Design of Everyday Things · discussed together in section 100
Examples
- Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore · discussed together in section 158
- Design for the Real World (book by Victor Papanek) · discussed together in section 100
- Mismatch (book by Kat Holmes) · discussed together in section 100
- Ushahidi · discussed together in section 158
- Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) · discussed together in section 100
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- Process · element
- Outcomes Component
- Design's Core
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- Chapter 16, section 158 · Core Dimension
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