William Storage 11 Jun 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society
Design Thinking is getting a new life. We should bury it instead. Here’s why.
Its Humble Origins
In 1979 Bruce Archer, the great mechanical engineer and professor at the Royal College of Art, wrote in a Design Studies paper,
“There exists a designerly way of thinking and communicating that is both different from scientific and scholarly ways of thinking and communicating, and as powerful as scientific and scholarly methods of inquiry when applied to its own kinds of problems.”
A brilliant recap of the work on design thinking. I don't agree with the title, but admire the historical context brought to bear in illustrating what design thinking is, where it came from and how it has been used. It's time to start looking at design thinking differently, not abandoning it.
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