Welcome to Design Thinking

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Welcome to Design Thinking. Hi, I’m Coach Takeshi. In this short video, I will explain what is Design Thinking, how we do Design Thinking, and most importantly, why we do Design Thinking.

Let’s start with clarifying the difference between Design Thinking, Agile and Lean. Well, consider them all the same.

Technically they all come from different origins; Agile from the software development world in the late 90s, and Lean from Lean Manufacturing made famous by the Toyota way, and Lean Startup after the first dot-com bubble burst again in the late 90s.

But they are all models of a common purpose: to get “experimentation and iteration” right. They are all processes, frameworks and approaches of “trial and error.” So go ahead and consider them all the same.

Design Thinking actually has an earlier history than Agile. It started in the late 1950’s around the same time as Systems Thinking. Yes, contrary to popular belief that Design Thinking is only for the…