Overview of Article: Adam Richardson, a product strategist, writer and a Creative Director at frog design takes on some of the “myths” that have come to be wildly held beliefs about those who use Design Thinking.
Thoughts on this Article: Adam has a good piece here- and addresses the fact that designers are not the answer to every problem. Design itself creates many of the problems that Design Thinking works to fix.
Original Article Here at Adam’s Blog
Attending a couple of talks at the World Design Congress crystallized some of my concerns about how design thinking gets talked a lot about these days, and how designers are ascribed almost magical powers because of it. The talks by Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Business, each touched on three “myths” about how designers think, and how designers can play a role in innovation and business. Read the rest of this entry »