Design thinking, innovation and user experience
The critical thinking provides an efficient method for designers, design students, and researchers for evaluating arguments and ideas through rational inductive and deductive reasoning in order to improving thinking about ideas. As a result, we eliminate biases, distractions, and similar factors that can negatively affect our decisions and judgments. In design, we can use critical thinking to escape our current …
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When it comes to the process of new product development, the stakes are high to achieve the target goals and introduce to the market a product that can satisfy both consumers and investors. In order to innovate new products, the management process should consider a high level of iteration and validation between production phases, which means that before jumping from …
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Many designers ask me the common question; is it better to search for design jobs or become freelance designers? Many of the design projects can run remotely without restricting to a specific workplace. this encourages companies to outsource their projects to freelance designers. Designers on the other side see the freelance as a way to escape the time and place …
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During the UX research process, one of our big aims is to understand the user behavior when visiting a website or using a mobile application. Over the course of building this understanding, different types of documents and tool can be used to put us on the same page with the user goals and ensure that the suggested solutions are having …
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As designers, the design thinking is part of our daily habits even if we don’t have any background about its different stages. We research for information about the project before jumping into the design process. We tend to sketch or prototype to visualize our ideas. For us, the design thinking process fills the gaps with a systematic flow of steps …
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In almost every design project, we find ourselves trapped in a number of mindset obstacles that stands between us and building an innovative outcome. These barriers include presumptions, biased ideas, and limited understanding of the consumer’s needs. Applying the critical thinking may help us to escape these barriers toward innovative solutions and products. The critical thinking is a simple yet …
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What if we can turn problems faced in projects into opportunities? There are various examples show that understanding the problem and provide a creative solution for it can lead to successful products such as the Apple iPods and e-book readers. These products have implemented the Creative Problem Solving approach to see their consumers’ needs as an opportunity for new products. …
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According to the Digital Trend 2015 Report, customer experience is considered the most important factors to stand from your competitor in the business. This can be achieved only through understanding the customer experience. The customer journal mapping can help us to visually learn more about our customers and build a coherent project future plans accordingly. The literature studies highlighted that …
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It doesn’t matter how solid is your business plan and market research conducted before pushing the product or service to the savagely competing market, there are always unexpected surprises. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) gives you the chance to test the product in the real market conditions and with the everyday consumers to evaluate its performance. The minimum viable product …
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The ideation stage in the design thinking process allows the design team to translate their knowledge acquired during the inspiration, the first stage in the design thinking process, into a tangible model or a prototype. This model puts everyone in the team in the heart of the design process as they can see, touch, evaluate, and brainstorm different challenges related …
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In simple words, system thinking means understanding the big picture of the current situation through recognizing its different elements, how they interact with each other from one side and external systems from another. For example, the car is considered a system which consists of many elements that interact with each other to achieve its main purpose; moving from point A …
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In the last few decades, there were different models for the design thinking process that have been introduced such as the d.school design thinking, IDEO human-centered design, double diamond, IBM design thinking, Google design sprinting and others. Noticeably, these models share a similar flow of phases that starts with understanding the problem addressed, reflect it in a form of a …
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The role of design is now extending the form and function of the product or service to more contribution to building innovative solutions that emphasize the wise consumption for natural resources. It’s design’s responsibility to build a strategic plan that considers reusing or recycling the materials used in production. The circular economy has been introduced a few years ago and …
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For many companies, the design process is still locked inside a small creative room. Designers do not effectively contribute to building the business as the design is seen as a tool rather than a strategy. On the other hand, a quick look at the markets can tell us more about how the holistic approach of design can help building a …
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Didn’t get the chance to attend a design school? You’re not alone as many barriers can stand between students to achieve their goal to learn design by getting a design degree. Amongst these barriers, the high tuition costs and lack of local design schools are considered the most challenging obstacles that prevent many students from fulfilling their passion for learning …
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