Design Thinking Research

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The authors offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods. The contents of the articles range from how to design ideas, methods and technologies via creativity experiments and wicked problem solutions, to creative collaboration in the real world and the connectivity of designers and engineers. But the topics go beyond this in their detailed exploration of design thinking and its use in IT systems engineering fields and even from a management perspective. The authors show how these methods and strategies work in companies, introduce new technologies and their functions and demonstrate how Design Thinking can influence as diverse a topic area as marriage. Furthermore, we see how special design thinking use functions in solving wicked problems in complex fields. Thinking and creating innovations are basically and inherently human so is Design Thinking. Due to this, Design Thinking is not only a factual matter or a result of special courses nor of being gifted or trained: it's a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques, technologies and life.

Based on scientific evidence from the HPI Stanford Design Thinking Research Program Covers more than just best practice in design thinking and innovation Points out how design thinking can be used to innovate IT development

Autorentext
Dr. sc. nat. Christoph Meinel (1954) ist Direktor und Geschäftsführer des Hasso-Plattner-Instituts für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH (HPI) und ordentlicher Professor (C4) für Internet-Technologien und Systeme. Er hat Mathematik und Informatik an der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin studiert, dort 1981 promoviert und sich 1988 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin habilitiert. Er wurde 1992 zum ordentlichen Professor (C4) für Informatik an die Univ. Trier berufen und hat dort in den Jahren 1998-2002 neben seinem Lehrstuhl das von der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft betreute Institut für Telematik e.V. geleitet. Seit 2004 ist er Direktor und Geschäftsführer des HPIs und hat einen Lehrstuhl (C4) für Internet-Technologien und Systeme an der Universität Potsdam. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit in Potsdam ist er Gastprofessor an der Univ. Luxembourg (Luxembourg) und an der TU Peking (China) und als Programmdirektor des HPI-Stanford Forschungsprogramms zum Design Thinking Research tätig. Christoph Meinel ist Autor bzw. Co-Autor und Inhaber internationaler Patente. Seine aktuellen Forschungsinteressen liegen in den Bereichen IT-Sicherheit, Teleteaching, Semantic/Social Web und e-Health. Er war wissenschaftlich aktiv auch auf dem Gebiet der Komplexitätstheorie und hat (BDD-basierte) Datenstrukturen und effiziente Algorithmen untersucht und entworfen. Er ist Chairman des 2007 gegründeten deutschen IPv6-Rats, Herausgeber von ECCC - Electronic Colloquiums on Computational Complexity, des IT-Gipfelblog und des tele-TASK-Archivs. 1996-2007 gehörte er dem Direktorium des IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl an und war Sprecher der GI-Fachgruppe 'Komplexität'. Er hat in einer großen Zahl internationaler Programm-Komitees mitgewirkt, diverse Konferenzen und Symposien veranstaltet und ist in wissenschaftlichen Aufsichtsräten aktiv.

Klappentext

What is the actual impact of design thinking? Which tools and techniques could conceivably improve team interaction in design processes? What influences creativity? And how can information be secured? These are just a few of the questions that were addressed by research teams from Stanford University, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Potsdam, Germany, within their joint Design Thinking Research Program.

Scientists from both institutions have been studying the user-centric innovation method of design thinking for many years now to gain a deep, evidence-based understanding of its underlying principles and functioning. The outcome of their studies, experiments and investigations in the sixth program year are summarized in this volume. Again research covers a diverse range of design thinking domains. The aim, however, is not only to advance design thinking theory and knowledge within the research community. Rather the program strives to ultimately improve design practice and education by gathering scientific evidence that supports design activities.

The first part of this book presents tools and techniques for improved team interaction that have been investigated and developed by the research teams. Creativity and creative confidence as central factors in design thinking are the focus of the second part. The book continues with investigations on the actual impact of design thinking and conceivable metrics. The fourth and final part of the book addresses issues of documentation and information transfer in innovation processes.

By taking the understanding of innovation to a new level that is relevant to all disciplines, our research provides a significant contribution toward making design thinking a foundational science.

Inhalt
Part I: Tools and Techniques for Improved Team Interaction.- Part II: Creativity and Creative Confidence.- Part III: Measuring Design Thinking.- Part IV: Documentation and Information Transfer in Design Thinking Processes.