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Design Thinking

Design Thinking

This book is not just for reading. Design Thinking is something you need to actually do. Reading about design thinking will increase your knowledge but by doing it you will learn what design thinking can mean for you in your studies and your work. In this book we encourage you to take action: design thinking by doing. Since the end of the last millennium design thinking has received an increasing amount of attention from the business community social organizations universities and colleges. Organizations are confronted with complex problems and issues that are no longer self-containe clear or easy to define. The creative solution strategy offered by design thinking appears to be increasingly needed to adequately respond to the questions wishes and needs of customers and society as a whole. This book unravels the thinking and working process of design thinking and offers practical tools for getting started. The author approaches design thinking in four chapters from different perspectives: as a way of thinking a way of working a project approach and a tool box. Design thinking is a way of thinking answers the questions: How do design thinkers approach problems and challenges? Which six fundamental attitudes do they use and what do you need to know in order to use them? Design thinking is a way of working answers questions such as: What phases and milestones does the design process distinguish? What is the difference between the more structured design process and the ‘messy’ cycle of design thinking? Because you learn design thinking by doing you will practice this in Design thinking is a project approach. Finally in the last chapter Design thinking is a tool box the methods and tools that you use in a design project will be discussed. This international edition of Design Thinking is written for students and workers who want to apply design thinking to tackle challenges problems or complex (social) issues in a different practical way within their own professional practice.

GBP 48.99
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The Game Design Toolbox

The Game Design Toolbox

This book presents 71 practical game design tools that readers can use to solve real-world game design problems. Written to be a toolbox for game designers it offers a hands-on approach with clear and easy-to-use tools so that readers can quickly find the right solution to the problem they are facing. This book is divided into six game design phases: ideation exploration commitment problem solving balancing and tuning. Each category contains an array of relevant tools and the accompanying indexes offer suggestions for tools to use for specific problems. Support Materials for this book offer further teaching materials exercises and complementary FAQs. Written to be a practical resource this book will be a useful toolbox for junior and veteran game designers alike. | The Game Design Toolbox

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Design Thinking in Student Affairs A Primer

Design Thinking in Student Affairs A Primer

Design thinking is an innovative problem-solving framework. This introduction is the first book to apply its methodology to student affairs and in doing so points the way to its potentially wider value to higher education as a whole. With its focus on empathy which is the need to thoroughly understand users’ experiences design thinking is user-centered similar to how student affairs is student-centered. Because the focus of design thinking is to design with users not for users it aligns well with student affairs practice. In addition its focus on empathy makes design thinking a more equitable approach to problem-solving than other methods because all users’ experiences—not just the experiences of majority or “average” student—need to be understood. Centering empathy in problem-solving processes can be a tool to disrupt higher education systems and practices. Design thinking is a framework to foster innovation and by its nature innovation is about responding to change factors with creativity. In an organization design thinking is inherently connected to organizational change and culture because the process is really about changing people to help them rally around a disruptive idea. Implementing design thinking on a campus may in itself be disruptive and require a change management process. The beauty of using design thinking is that it can also act as a framework to support organizational culture change. Design thinking approaches with their focus on stakeholder needs (as opposed to systemic norms) collaborative solutions building and structured empathy activities can offer a concrete tool to disrupt harmful systems of power and oppression. Design thinking as a process is not a magic solution to equity problems though it can be a powerful tool to approach the development of solutions that can address inequity. Design thinking is data-driven and considers both qualitative and quantitative data as necessary to gain most complete picture of an issue and its possible solutions whether a product program or service. Design thinking has numerous benefits to afford students affairs. Chapter 1 outlines a case for design thinking in student affairs. Chapter 2 discusses a brief history of design thinking noting its germination and evolution to current practice. Chapter 3 provides a detailed description of each step of the design thinking model with pertinent examples to make the steps clearer. Chapter 4 explains the intersection of equity and design thinking while chapter 5 explores the use of design thinking for organizational change. Chapter 6 presents a new model for design thinking assessment. Chapter 7 addresses the challenges and limitations of the process. Chapter 8 concludes the book by discussing the alignment of design thinking and student affairs and outlining next steps. Design thinking is an innovative process that can change the way higher education and student affairs operates realizing the potential it offers. | Design Thinking in Student Affairs A Primer

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Design Thinking for Every Classroom A Practical Guide for Educators

Design Thinking for Every Classroom A Practical Guide for Educators

Designed to apply across grade levels Design Thinking for Every Classroom is the definitive teacher’s guide to learning about and working with design thinking. Addressing the common hurdles and pain points this guide illustrates how to bring collaborative equitable and empathetic practices into your teaching. Learn about the innovative processes and mindsets of design thinking how it differs from what you already do in your classroom and steps for integrating design thinking into your own curriculum. Featuring vignettes from design thinking classrooms alongside sample lessons assessments and starter activities this practical resource is essential reading as you introduce design thinking into your classroom program or community. | Design Thinking for Every Classroom A Practical Guide for Educators

GBP 28.99
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Sketching as Design Thinking

Sketching as Design Thinking

This book argues for the importance of sketching as a mode of thinking and the relevance of sketching in the design process design education and design practice. Through a wide range of analysis and discussion the book looks at the history of sketching as a resource throughout the design process and asks questions such as: where does sketching come from? When did sketching become something different to drawing and how did that happen? What does sketching look like in the present day? Alongside an in-depth case study of students teachers and practitioners this book includes a fascinating range of interviews with designers from a wide variety of backgrounds including fashion user experience and architecture. Sketching as Design Thinking explains how drawing and sketching remain a prominent aspect in our learning and creative process and provides a rich resource for students of visual art and design.

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Data Visualization for Design Thinking Applied Mapping

Data Visualization for Design Thinking Applied Mapping

Data Visualization for Design Thinking helps you make better maps. Treating maps as applied research you’ll be able to understand how to map sites places ideas and projects revealing the complex relationships between what you represent your thinking the technology you use the culture you belong to and your aesthetic practices. More than 100 examples illustrated with over 200 color images show you how to visualize data through mapping. Includes five in-depth cases studies and numerous examples throughout. | Data Visualization for Design Thinking Applied Mapping

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Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design

Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design

Learning to think and act creatively is a requisite fundamental aspect of design education for architectural and interior design as well as industrial and graphic design. Development of creative capacities must be encountered early in design education for beginning students to become self-actualized as skillful designers. With chapters written by beginning design instructors Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design addresses issues that contribute to deficiencies in teaching creativity in contemporary beginning design programs. Where traditional pedagogies displace creative thinking by placing conceptual abstractions above direct experiential engagement the approaches presented in this book set forth alternative pedagogies that mitigate student fears and misconceptions to reveal the potency of authentic encounters for initiating creative transformational development. These chapters challenge design pedagogy to address such issues as the spatial body phenomenological thinking making as process direct material engagement and its temporal challenges creative decision making and the wickedness of design and the openness of the creative design problem. In doing so this book sets out to give greater depth to first design experiences and more effectively enable the breadth and depth of the teacher–student relationship as a means of helping your students develop the capacity for long-term self-transformation.

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Design Thinking A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Design Thinking A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems enables creative solutions and may provide fresh perspectives on our physical and social landscapes. Not just for architects or product developers design thinking can be applied across many disciplines to solve real-world problems and reconcile dilemmas. It is a tool that may trigger inspiration and the imagination and lead to innovative ideas that are responsive to the needs and issues of stakeholders. Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone will assist in addressing a full spectrum of challenges from the most vexing to the everyday. It renders accessible the creative problem-solving abilities that we all possess by providing a dynamic framework and practical tools for thinking imaginatively and critically. Every aspect of design thinking is explained and analyzed together with insights on navigating through the process. Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society business health and science law and writing. A combination of theory and application makes this volume immediately useful and personally relevant. | Design Thinking A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

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Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education

Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education. Annotated case studies both from academic institutions and from professional practices provide examples of interdisciplinary engagement in creative design work highlighting the challenges and opportunities of this approach. Cases are from a diverse selection of international collaborators featuring projects from the United States Australia Mexico Germany and Italy and cover a range of project types and scales. Chapters by invited experts offer speculations on current and future models situating examples within the broader context and encouraging dialogue between practice and pedagogy. The collection of voices in this book offers critical and provocative lenses learning from history while forging inventive and creative roles for the architect as practitioner entrepreneur strategist choreographer activist facilitator leader and teacher. Interdisciplinary Design Thinking provides insights into the potential of interdisciplinary engagement at the level of foundational undergraduate education making it ideal for faculty in architecture schools. It will also be of interest to design professionals concerned with interdisciplinary collaboration and how to incorporate similar efforts in their own practices. | Interdisciplinary Design Thinking in Architecture Education

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Systems Thinker's Toolbox Tools for Managing Complexity

Systems Thinker's Toolbox Tools for Managing Complexity

Systems Thinker's Toolbox: Tools for Managing Complexity provides more than 100 tools based on systems thinking and beyond. Each tool is described and when necessary examples are provided of how each of them can be used. Some of the simplest tools can be combined into more complex tools. The tools may be things such as lists causal loops and templates as well as processes and methodologies. Key FeaturesProvides an explanation of the two views of systems thinking; systemic and systematic thinking and then shows how to perform each of them in a complimentary manner Presents a set of thinking tools that can be used to apply systems thinking to solving problems in project management engineering systems engineering new product development and business Describes the tools from simple such as lists and goes on to more complex such as Categorized Requirements in Process (CRIP) charts and then onto the processes Introduces new tools that have been tested with positive feedback Discusses a set of communication tools that can improve project reviews and communicating innovative ideas | Systems Thinker's Toolbox Tools for Managing Complexity

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Structures by Design Thinking Making Breaking

Structures by Design Thinking Making Breaking

*Winner of the 2021 TAA Textbook Excellence Award* Honorable Mention of the 2021 BTES Book Award Structures by Design: Thinking Making Breaking is a new type of structures textbook for architects who prefer to learn using the hands-on creative problem-solving techniques typically found in a design studio. Instead of presenting structures as abstract concepts defined by formulas and diagrams this book uses a project-based approach to demonstrate how a range of efficient effective and expressive architectural solutions can be generated tested and revised. Each section of the book is focused on a particular manner by which structural resistance is provided: Form (Arches and Cables) Sections (Beams Slabs and Columns) Vectors (Trusses and Space Frames) Surfaces (Shells and Plates) and Frames (Connections and High-Rises). The design exercises featured in each chapter use the Think Make Break method of reiterative design to develop and evaluate different structural options. A variety of structural design tools will be used including the human body physical models historical precedents static diagrams traditional formulae and advanced digital analysis. The book can be incorporated into various course curricula and studio exercises because of the flexibility of the format and range of expertise required for these explorations. More than 500 original illustrations and photos provide example solutions and inspiration for further design exploration. | Structures by Design Thinking Making Breaking

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Design Thinking in Technical Communication Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration

Design Thinking in Technical Communication Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration

This book explicates the relationships between design thinking critical making and socially responsive technical communication. It leverages the recent technology-powered DIY culture called the Maker Movement to identify how citizen innovation can inform cutting-edge social innovation that advocates for equitable change and progress on today’s wicked problems. After offering a succinct account of the origin and recent history of design thinking along with its connections to the design paradigm in writing studies the book analyzes maker culture and its influences on innovation and education through an ethnographic study of three academic makerspaces. It offers opportunities to cultivate a sense of critical changemaking in technical communication students and practitioners showcasing examples of socially responsive innovation and expert interviews that urge a disciplinary attention to social justice advocacy and an embrace of the design-thinking principle of radical collaboration. The value of design thinking methodologies for teaching and practicing socially responsible technical communication are demonstrated as the author argues for a future in the field that sees its constituents as leaders in radical innovation to solve wicked social problems. This book is essential reading for instructors students and practitioners of technical communication and can be used as a supplemental text for graduate and undergraduate courses in usability and user-centered design and research. | Design Thinking in Technical Communication Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration

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Cybernetic Architectures Informational Thinking and Digital Design

Cybernetic Architectures Informational Thinking and Digital Design

For the past 50 years the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-mediated design methods fabrication techniques and architectural expressions. Simultaneously in contemporary architecture new frameworks emerged that have radically redefined the traditional conceptions of design of the built environment and of the role of architects. Cybernetic Architectures argues that such frameworks have been constructed in direct reference to cybernetic thinking a thought model that emerged concurrently with the origins of informatics and that embodies the main assumptions values and ideals underlying the development of computer science. The book explains how the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture has been parallel to the construction of design issues in reference to the central ideas fostered by the cybernetic model. It unpacks and explains this crucial relationship in the work of digital architects between the use of information technology in design and the conception of architectural problems around an informational ontology. This book will appeal to architecture students and scholars interested in understanding the recent transformations in the architectural landscape related to the advent of computer-based design paradigms. | Cybernetic Architectures Informational Thinking and Digital Design

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Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation engagement and participation among students. Using two in-depth examples the authors show that the introduction of a gamified design in a design thinking activity can be a powerful tool to enhance the experiences of students in the teaching-learning process of a subject; motivate participants in a design thinking activity in the university environment; and enhance skills such as creativity critical thinking and problem-solving and collaboration widely demanded in the labor market. Further they examine how gamification and design thinking in the educational field can enable both the motivation and engagement of students and promote behavioral changes that materialize as a boost in learning outcomes and academic performance. Providing valuable recommendations and insights into the analysis design and development and implementation and evaluation of gamified design thinking activities to be carried out in higher education as well as examining relevant ethical issues the book will appeal to scholars researchers academic faculty and educators working in the field of higher education and with interests in educational psychology and theories of learning. | Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom

GBP 48.99
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Design Thinking Pedagogy Facilitating Innovation and Impact in Tertiary Education

Design Thinking Pedagogy Facilitating Innovation and Impact in Tertiary Education

The problems facing society today are complex multifaceted and require crossing multiple disciplinary boundaries. As such these problems call for interdisciplinary collaboration including new and different combinations of skills and knowledge. Currently tertiary education providers are not well-positioned to develop these interdisciplinary capabilities at a rate commensurate with the speed of contemporary change. This book places design thinking as the catalyst to create change in the tertiary education sector and to build interdisciplinary skill sets that are required for the graduate of the future. By presenting a series of case studies and drawing on global experts in the field this book investigates pedagogical approaches disciplinary facilitation practice curriculum integration and a framework for understanding design thinking pedagogy within tertiary education. Focusing on how educational institutions can produce innovative graduates with the ability to traverse disciplinary constraints this book will be essential reading for research students academics and industry practitioners. | Design Thinking Pedagogy Facilitating Innovation and Impact in Tertiary Education

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Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching A Design Thinking Approach

Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching A Design Thinking Approach

Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative user-friendly practical and theoretical guide for educating sports coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports coaching. Providing theoretical grounding in mentoring conversations design thinking and case study research the book centres on a series of redesigned mentoring conversations between some of the world’s leading sports coaching experts coach educators mentors and mentees. It covers topics such as: supporting novice volunteer coaches’ learningthe learning needs of novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coachesprofessional communities of learning in coachingthe impact of coaching behaviours on learning environmentsautonomy-supportive learning environmentscoaching children young people and adults Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design thinker Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is important reading for any upper-level student or researcher working in sports coaching sports pedagogy or youth sport and any coach looking to integrate sound mentoring theory into their professional practice. | Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching A Design Thinking Approach

GBP 38.99
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HOLTZ OFFICE SUPPORT GMBH CONNECTOR Plug Connection, For Design Thinking Whiteboards, Pack Of 2, Plastic

HOLTZ OFFICE SUPPORT GMBH CONNECTOR Plug Connection, For Design Thinking Whiteboards, Pack Of 2, Plastic

CONNECTOR plug connection, for Design Thinking whiteboards, pack of 2, plastic. Width = 400 mm. Height = 320 mm. Depth = 580 mm. Colour = grey. Material = plastic. Product type = accessories for whiteboards. Securely fastens Design Thinking whiteboards to each other. Stable connection, simply plugged onto the top of the boards. When pushed together, the two elements can also be used as a pencil tray. A second whiteboard can be added to the Design Thinking whiteboard set. Both boards can be used as a mobile easel in the Design Thinking base. The CONNECTOR plug connection ensures a sturdy connection and is simply plugged onto the top of the boards. Supplied complete with 2 items, W x H x D 580 x 320 x 400 mm.

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