Design Thinking

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9 Best Articles in 2021
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The Design Sprint — Google VenturesGV
5 min read · From 2015 · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
design
ux
mvp
HackerNoon
The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable ProductHackerNoon
10 min read · From 2016 · Please raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard about minimum viable product (MVP) and have no clue what it is. When you talk to software…
mvp
product management
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medium.com
Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinkingmedium.com
9 min read · From 2017 · In this series on systems thinking, I share the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with…
systems thinking
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This was a bunch of mental concepts that I had known, and some I thought up myself. I had realized some of these systems work, but I didn't know these had names until now.
circulardesignguide.com
The Circular Design Guidecirculardesignguide.com
1 min read · From 2017 · What if you could redesign everything? The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between IDEO and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. It's an action-oriented set of methods, mindsets and thought starters to help innovators design circular solutions that are fit for the future.
circular design
ui
ux
UX Planet
UX Writing: How to do it like Google with this powerful checklistUX Planet
10 min read · From 2017 · Notes from Google I/O 2017 on choosing the right words
ux
ux writing
design thinking
Harvard Business Review
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”Harvard Business Review
20+ min read · From 2016 · Is innovation inherently a hit-or-miss endeavor? Not if you understand why customers make the choices they do.
startups
jobs to be done
jtbd
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Successful innovators identify poorly performed “jobs” in customers’ lives—and then design products, experiences, and processes around those jobs.
Jobs analysis doesn’t require you to throw out the data and research you’ve already gathered.
Nielsen Norman Group
Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design ThinkingNielsen Norman Group
9 min read · From 2018 · Visualizing user attitudes and behaviors in an empathy map helps UX teams align on a deep understanding of end users.
empathy map
design thinking
design
medium.com
When, which … Design Thinking, Lean, Design Sprint, Agile?medium.com
4 min read · From 2017 · A lot of people are — understandably so — very confused when it comes to innovation methodologies, frameworks, and techniques. Questions like: “When should we use Design Thinking?”, “What is the…
product design
agile
design thinking
Harvard Business Review
Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status QuoHarvard Business Review
~17 min read · From 2018 · The alternative is messier, but more democratic.
design thinking
critics
design
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