Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges

摘要

Design thinking has become a central issue in contemporary design discourse and rhetoric, and for good reason. With the design thinking practice of world leading design and innovation firm IDEO, and with the application of these principles to successful design education at prestigious d.school, the Institute of Design at Stanford University, and not least with the publication of Change by Design, in which IDEO chief executive Tim Brown elaborates on the firm's ideas about design thinking,1 the design community is challenged to think beyond both the omnipotent designer and the obsession with products, objects, and things.