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What is Design Thinking and how can teachers get started?
An introductory guide to design thinking for educators
With this introductory guide to design thinking for educators, we lay the foundations for better problem solving and creative ideas.
Use this introduction as a launchpad for your further research, skill development and professional growth in creative problem solving with design thinking.
What is Design Thinking?
Design thinking is a creative, human-centred process for developing new ideas and solving problems.
The design process includes five phases: empathising with the user, identifying needs and defining the problem, envisioning what could be, generating potential solutions, prototyping ideas and testing prototypes with users.
The five phases are often labelled:
- Empathise
- Define
- Ideate
- Prototype
- Test
Design thinking aims to uncover creative solutions for complex problems through generating ideas, testing them with stakeholders, and refining them in an iterative process until they are ready for implementation.
