Design thinking applied to technological advances

Who said that design thinking and technology cannot merge? As an agile, iterative and innovative approach that focuses on the desires and requirements of people, you can pivot as the market changes and technology advances. Design thinking recognises that there is no one solution to a problem. 

Solve actual issues with divergent thinking 

Through study and open-ended investigation, you can now focus on understanding genuine requirements and challenges. 

Divergent thinking is a creative thought process that helps individuals to build better knowledge via open, free-flowing debates, must be intentionally embraced during this time.

Divergent thinking is a creative thought process that helps individuals to build better knowledge via open, free-flowing debates, must be intentionally embraced during this time.

dentify the areas in which you’d like to use convergent thinking
Using convergent thinking, now you can focus on discovering significant insights, themes, and opportunity areas. Go into a mental shift to a get a more closed perspective in order to zero down on the best potential solution to a given problem.

Come up with more and more ideas 

Now you can focus on developing more concrete ideas and solutions utilising the knowledge from the previous stage. Divergent thinking is employed once more to develop as many ideas as possible, and they should be assessed on a regular basis to determine their viability.

Lastly, you put all the elements in one place and choose a few prototype-able concepts. This doesn’t have to be a full-fledged product, but it should be a progression of your prior visualisations and drawings – potentially with more specific features – that you can test for feasibility and confirm. No wonder there has always been so much buzz on protypes! 

Voila! Your end result is a well-developed sketch or prototype for anything that may become a product, which is then given to others for comment on whether it’s technically feasible.