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Design Thinking Research

Achieving Real Innovation

  • Based on scientific evidence from the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program

  • Provides outlook on the emerging field of neurodesign research

  • Highlights how design thinking can tap the potential of digital technologies in a human-centered way

Part of the book series: Understanding Innovation (UNDINNO)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. A Humanistic and Creative Philosophy of Design

    • Jan Auernhammer, Larry Leifer, Christoph Meinel, Bernard Roth
    Pages 1-15
  3. Value Creation in Virtual Innovation Spaces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Interpersonal Trust Activity to Increase Team Creativity Outcome: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Approach

      • Stephanie Balters, Theresa J. Weinstein, Grace Hawthorne, Allan L. Reiss
      Pages 19-36
    3. Dancing with Ambiguity Online: When Our Online Actions Cause Confusion

      • So Yeon Park, Mark E. Whiting, Michael Shanks
      Pages 37-56
    4. Experiences of Facilitating Virtual Design Thinking: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Implications

      • Selina Mayer, Martin Schwemmle, Claudia Nicolai, Ulrich Weinberg
      Pages 79-95
  4. Fostering Innovation Behavior and Co-evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. A Pattern Language of an Exploratory Programming Workspace

      • Marcel Taeumel, Jens Lincke, Patrick Rein, Robert Hirschfeld
      Pages 111-145
    3. Practice-to-Research: Translating Company Phenomena into Empirical Research

      • Lena Mayer, Katharina Hölzle, Karen von Schmieden, Reem Refaie, Hanadi Traifeh, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 147-159
    4. Timely State Exposure for the Coevolution of Mental Models and Dynamic Systems

      • Parastoo Abtahi, Sidney Q. Hough, Jackie Junrui Yang, Sean Follmer, James A. Landay
      Pages 161-175
    5. Designing for Value Creation: Principles, Methods, and Case Insights from Embedding Designing-as-Performance in Digital Health Education and Research

      • Jonathan Antonio Edelman, Babajide Alamu Owoyele, Joaquin Santuber, Stefan Konigorski
      Pages 177-206
  5. Problematizing Design Thinking as a Concept

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. Different Concepts of Human Needs and Their Relation to Innovation Outcomes

      • Julia von Thienen, Constantin Hartmann, Christoph Meinel
      Pages 209-226
    3. Facets of Human-Centered Design: The Evolution of Designing by, with, and for People

      • Jan Auernhammer, Matteo Zallio, Lawrence Domingo, Larry Leifer
      Pages 227-245
    4. Decades of Alumni: Designing a Study on the Long-Term Impact of Design Education

      • Sheri D. Sheppard, Helen L. Chen, George Toye, Timo Bunk, Nada Elfiki, Felix Kempf et al.
      Pages 247-269
    5. The Cultural Construction of Creative Problem-Solving: A Critical Reflection on Creative Design Thinking, Teaching, and Learning

      • Xiao Ge, Chunchen Xu, Nanami Furue, Daigo Misaki, Cinoo Lee, Hazel Rose Markus
      Pages 291-323
    6. Design Thinking as a Catalyst and Support for Sustainability Solutions

      • Nicole M. Ardoin, Alison W. Bowers, Veronica Lin, Indira Phukan
      Pages 325-340

About this book

Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. The participating researchers have identified metrics, developed models, and conducted studies, which are featured in this book, and in the previous volumes of this series.

This volume provides readers with tools to bridge the gap between research and practice in design thinking with varied real world examples. Several different approaches to design thinking are presented in this volume. Acquired frameworks are leveraged to understand design thinking team dynamics. The contributing authors lead the reader through new approaches and application fields and show that design thinking can tap the potential of digital technologies in a human-centered way. It also presents new ideas in neurodesign from Stanford University and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, inviting the reader to consider newly developed methods and how these insights can be applied to different domains.

Design thinking can be learned. It has a methodology that can be observed across multiple settings and accordingly, the reader can adopt new frameworks to modify and update existing practice. The research outcomes compiled in this book are intended to inform and provide inspiration for all those seeking to drive innovation – be they experienced design thinkers or newcomers.

Keywords

  • Stanford Design Thinking Research Program
  • Design Thinking
  • Hasso Plattner Institute
  • Stanford D-School
  • DTR
  • IT development
  • Innovating creativity
  • School of Design Thinking
  • Creative collaboration
  • Team dynamics
  • Organizational learning
  • Neurodesign
  • Social virtual reality
  • Multi team design
  • Human-Robot interaction
  • Human-centered design
  • Digital transformation
  • Collaborative design tools
  • Virtual design thinking
  • Digital health

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hasso Plattner Institute and Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Christoph Meinel

  • Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Larry Leifer

About the editors

Professor Dr. Christoph Meinel is Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI), Potsdam, Germany and a full professor for computer science and serves as department chair of Internet Technologies and Systems at HPI.  He teaches at the HPI School of Design Thinking and is Vice Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam. In addition he is an honorary professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at Beijing University of Technology, guest professor at Shanghai University and concurrent professor at Nanjing University. Meinel is a member of acatech, the German “National Academy of Science and Engineering”, and numerous scientific committees and supervisory boards. Together with Larry Leifer from Stanford University he is program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program.

Larry Leifer is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, CA, USA. Dr. Leifer's engineering design thinking research is focused on instrumenting design teams to understand, support, and improve design practice and theory. Specific issues include: design-team research methodology, global team dynamics, innovation leadership, interaction design, design-for-wellbeing, and adaptive mechatronic systems. He has started many design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR).  


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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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