Terms related to »Design Thinking«

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Sensemaking

A collaborative process of creating shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals' perspectives and varied interests. Or in short, the process by which people give meaning to experience. [ » read more ]

Service Design

The application of design thinking to the improvement or creation of services. [ » read more ]

Startup

A startup is a temporary organization used to search 
for a repeatable and scalable business model. — Steve Blank [ » read more ]

Strategic Innovation

Pursuing ‘innovation as a discipline’ with a clear innovation strategy in place, and an innovation system derived from it. [ » read more ]

Synthesis (Design Thinking)

Synthesis is a mode in design thinking where a team makes sense of the data it collected during user research. The team creates "models of reality" (e.g. affinity diagrams, journey maps, personas, etc.) to gain a better understanding of the (research) problem at hand and uses them in both internal and external communication. [ » read more ]