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Design thinking : a guide to innovation / Fred Estes.

By:

Estes, Fred, 1950- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2025]Description: 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9798765608005

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Informational works.

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Design thinkingDDC classification:

670 23/eng/20240207

LOC classification:

TS171.4 .E86 2025

Contents:

Introduction: Design thinking for innovation and social impact -- Notice and reflect -- Empathize -- Define -- Ideate -- Prototype -- Test -- Conclusion.

Summary: "Design thinking is a six-step process used in creative problem solving to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions. As a human-centered approach to innovation, design thinking is used in everything from corporate structure in businesses such as UberEATS, AirBnB, and Adobe XD to local and regional projects. Design Thinking by author and educator Fred Estes provides a simple, clear approach to the six-step design thinking process. This easy-to-follow guide explains everything essential to design thinking projects focused on solving human-centered, social issues. Readers will learn the fundamentals of each of the six steps in the design thinking model- notice and reflect, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test- and discover how to collaborate with people to develop solutions to real-world problems and create better communities through creativity, inspiration, and teamwork. With true stories of real student teams and their projects, this book provides readers with the steps to effect change and create a more equitable world." -- Provided by publisher.

List(s) this item appears in: New Young Adult Additions

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Title notes ( 5 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	YA Non-Fiction	Teen Spot	YA 670 EST	Available		36748002638320

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Design thinking for innovation and social impact -- Notice and reflect -- Empathize -- Define -- Ideate -- Prototype -- Test -- Conclusion.

"Design thinking is a six-step process used in creative problem solving to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions. As a human-centered approach to innovation, design thinking is used in everything from corporate structure in businesses such as UberEATS, AirBnB, and Adobe XD to local and regional projects. Design Thinking by author and educator Fred Estes provides a simple, clear approach to the six-step design thinking process. This easy-to-follow guide explains everything essential to design thinking projects focused on solving human-centered, social issues. Readers will learn the fundamentals of each of the six steps in the design thinking model- notice and reflect, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test- and discover how to collaborate with people to develop solutions to real-world problems and create better communities through creativity, inspiration, and teamwork. With true stories of real student teams and their projects, this book provides readers with the steps to effect change and create a more equitable world." -- Provided by publisher.

Ages 12-18. Twenty-First Century Books.

Grades 7-9. Twenty-First Century Books.