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The world has woken up to the power of design as a transformational tool, for not only commercial advantage but for social change, too. This is the reason why, in recent years, there has been a proliferation of various “design thinking” courses, which provide a simple step-by-step distillation of the techniques and practices used by designers to problem solve.
This type of design thinking, which is intended to promote more creative innovation among non-designers, is based on the different stages of the design process these programmes generally distinguish as: empathise, define, ‘ideate’, prototype, test and evaluate. And it seems to involve a lot of Post-It Notes being stuck on walls.
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