Introduction
The way you express your creativity when designing your website is crucial to capturing the attention of your visitors.
The following articles inspired me to think creatively about content strategy as well as creative designs.
An introductory guide to design thinking.
Discover what it means to be a design thinker and how to carry out this effective problem-solving process that can help you create new products built specifically around human needs.
Design thinking centers the user in the creative process.
Design thinking is a type of creative problem solving. “It’s a way of thinking and making that keeps the user at the center of everything,” explains experience designer Meg Dryer. “It’s a human-centered approach to developing products, services, and experiences.” Anyone can be a design thinker, not just graphic or product designers. This is a method to arrive at great designs for physical and digital products, to create new solutions across professions.
The article, particularly ‘The five-stage design thinking process,’ helped me with content strategies in general as well as the visual aspect of creative design.
What is Design Thinking?
In this article, the topic of Design Thinking is explored at great length, including a video featuring Design Thinking pioneer Tim Brown presenting Design Thinking’s value in solving extremely complex problems.
There are multiple design thinking frameworks, each with a different number of steps and phase names. One of the most popular frameworks is the Stanford School 5-stage process.
Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF. (2016, May 25). What is Design Thinking?. Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/design-thinking
Table of Contents to Explore
- What is Design Thinking?
- Why Is Design Thinking so Important?
- The Five Stages of Design Thinking
- Learn More about Design Thinking
- Questions related to Design Thinking
Wikipedia Article on Design Thinking
With a great historical overview of the topic, this article also offers a link to a well-produced video on the subject.
Design thinking refers to the set of cognitive, strategic, and practical procedures used by designers in the process of designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when engaging with design problems.
Design thinking is also associated with prescriptions for the innovation of products and services within business and social contexts.
Conclusion
The three articles above provided me with enough food for design thinking at the moment, even though you’d find many more articles on this fascinating subject online.
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