2025:Training/Design Thinking (Resources and Stories)

Design Thinking: Resources and Stories

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Design Thinking Toolkit: in this mural you can find all the design methods used for Session 2 and many more (these method cards can also be found in PDF form here.)
Here you will find LOTS of additional resources on design thinking methods and mindsets, that will be useful to you for a long time.

Empathy and Problem Framing/Synthesis

• David Foster Wallace's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
• Video: The Power of Empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwidCkCmWg4
• Animated Talk: The Empathic Civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
• Animated Talk: The Power of Outrospection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG46IwVfSu8
• Video: Not everyone sees what you see. Can you see what they see? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6zoCDyQSH0o
• Reading:Looking Past the Horse https://medium.com/editors-picks/44bda7299a28
• Video: Developing empathic leaders through design: Sami Nerenberg (Design for America) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQ49dKF0Q4
• Empathy Museum: http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/at-the-worlds-first-empathy-museum-visitors-walk-a-mile-in-another-persons-shoes-literally-20150821
• Observing with fresh eyes: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2100

Ideation

• Animated book excerpt: Steven Johnson book "_where good ideas come from": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
• Reading about human inventiveness: http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2016/spring/pagan-kennedy-human-inventiveness/
• Video: a child's creativity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_hGQuTjI3U
• Isaac Asimov on the value of brainstorming: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/
• Video (TEDx): Demystifying Creativity, by Javier Fernandez-Han http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof_jK8YuGQ
• Video: What if… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzmlUNTblvo

Prototyping

• Video and Reading: Pretotyping Manifesto by Alberto Savoia

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4AqxNekecY
• Pretotype It! (Google doc)

• Video: Knowing is the enemy of learning: Tom Chi at TEDxSemesteratSea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WtsMrkfG1w
• Readings: "Failure sucks, but instructs":

• http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/10/failure-sucks-b.html
• http://blogs.hbr.org/sutton/2007/06/learning_from_success_and_fail.html

• Reading: "Experience the world, instead of talking about experiencing the world": http://metacool.com/experience-the-world-instead-of-talking-about-experiencing-the-world/
• Video: Why You Need to Fail, by Derek Sivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxcFGuKOys&list=PL8401508249377725&index=4

Books

• Creative Acts for Curious People, Sarah Stein Greenberg
• Design for Belonging, Susie Wise
• Drawing on Courage, Ashish Goel
• Navigating Ambiguity, Andrea Small & Kelly Schmutte
• The Secret Language of Maps, Carissa Carter
• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, David Kelley (d.school founder) and Tom Kelley
• Make Space, Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft
• The Achievement Habit, by Bernie Roth (d.school founder)
• The art of innovation, Tom Kelley
• Change by design, Tim Brown
• The Ten Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelley
• Design and Designing, Steve Garner, Chris Evans (Eds.) (note: I co-wrote a chapter in this book)

Toolkits:/methods

• d.school bootcamp bootleg: http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/the-bootcamp-bootleg/
• IDEO Human Centered Design Toolkit: http://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit/
• NESTA's Prototyping Framework: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/prototyping-framework
• IDEO's Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit: http://designthinkingforeducators.com/

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