Recently GK VanPatter was asked about how to define Design Thinking which I and other has been written about here a few times before - but a lot has happened in the field since then. Design Thinking is one of these topics which is difficult to handle, put into boxes, define in a discrete way. As GK say’s - the definition of design is in motion. He claim the following “revolution”:
Design is moving from:
1. Tactical to Strategic
2. Defined Briefs to Fuzzy Situations
3. Aesthetic-Centered to Human-Centered
4. Trends Tracking to Complexity Navigation
5. Strange-Making to Sense-Making & Strange-Making
6. Vertical Content Expertise to Adaptable Process Expertise
7. Intertribal Communication to Cross-Disciplinary Communication
8. Creating Ideas & Products to Co-Creating Strategies & Organizations
9. Thinking & Doing to Thinking, Doing & Enabling
10. Deliberate Exclusion to Deliberate Inclusion
11. Object Creating to Culture Building
12. Design as Subservience to Design as Leadership
I agree, a paradigm-shift is on its way - do you?