 Okay, let's talk about design thinking. What does it mean? What does design thinking mean? Why is it so confusing? Why is it so hard for people to get? We hear design thinking in the UX field a lot Is there some sort of magic formula that designers do? I want to attempt to explain what design thinking is How does it actually work in the real world? Well Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation. It takes into account business people and Imagine a Venn diagram three circles. You have your business the viability of it the human side or the people side The desirability of it, but then you have the technical side or the feasibility of it in the middle is where innovation comes I think this is still a bit too complicated for people to really get it's really just a problem solving framework Okay, that's it. So design thinking is actually broken down into these five phases So we have empathize is the first really understanding the context of the problem the problem space And the second phase is define basically clarifying what you want to get out of this and what problem you want to solve Then we have the third phase idea the ideation phase is all about creating a lot of solutions It's more about quantity over quality. So here it allows us to explore and experiment And the fourth phase prototype once we've figured out a potential solution for that problem We can really start to build representation of what that would look like right how it's going to work in the real world Then the final phase is test. Does it work? Does it not work? How can we improve it? Is it the wrong idea? And then we can go back to the drawing board The great thing about design thinking is concept is that it gives you sort of a mental model to tackle real world problems Because it helps you put a framework to problem solving It's not really specific to designers developers people in the software industry It's an invaluable asset in my life and I'll implore you guys to try it Peace my food is nearly here