Different Perspectives in Design Thinking

Chapter-1 Design Thinking between Myth and Methodology

Petra Badke-Schaub

Professor for Design Theory and Methodology, TU Deflt - Faculty Industrial Design Engineering, Department Design Organisation StrategyLandbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft

DOI: 10.1201/9780429289378-1

Design Thinking and design research

During the last century designing has gone through major changes, from a predominantly individual creative process to a multidisciplinary interaction process, working across different disciplines such as engineering, economics, and social sciences, but also across IT, education, and medicine.

In the late 80ies Tim Brown, the father of Design Thinking, stated in his book “Change by Design” (2009, 2017) that the problems we currently encounter ...