Engineering Design Thinking

Team Based Engineering Design Thinking

Design Thinking implemented in Software Engineering Tools Proposing and Applying the Design Thinking Transformation Framework

Design Thinking has collected theories and best-practices to foster creativity and innovation in group processes. This is in particular valuable for sketchy and complex problems. Other disciplines can learn from this body-of-behaviors and values to tackle their complex problems. In this paper, using four Design Thinking qualities, we propose a framework to identify the level of Design Thinkingn...

Models as Bridges from Design Thinking to Engineering

In this paper we address the critical link between design thinking (DT) and software engineering by investigating the role of models as artifacts crossing the boundaries from designers to other disciplines like engineering. We introduce our approach (mDT, multidisciplinary Design Thinking) by describing its methods. We show how the results of a DT process can be handed over to others. We focus ...

From Palaces to Yurts: Why Requirements Engineering Needs Design Thinking

T he German saying " von Palästen zu Zelten " compares different systems to different levels of flexibility and agility — that is, " from palaces to yurts. " Requirements engineering systems are geared for developing information system palaces and aren't what's needed for today's world of rapidly changing, app-enabled products. These Web and mobile apps are small, require rapid development, mus...

Understanding Design Thinking: a Process Model Based on Method Engineering

This article presents a formal model of the design thinking process based on Method Engineering. The foundation of our work is based on observations within an educational context—the 'School of Design Thinking' of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, Germany (“HPI D-School”). We analyzed the design thinking process, as it is practiced there, and developed a process model that describes all ...