I think Natasha Iskander has a point here. When I think of 'design thinking' I think of designing as a way to think out loud, exploring possibilities and seeing whether some wild idea will work at all. But that's not what it has become over the years. "Although it is often advertised as a method that is as innovative as the solutions it promises to produce, it bears an uncanny resemblance to an earlier model of problem-solving, celebrated in the 1970s and 1980s for the superior solutions it was supposed to produce. Called the 'rational-experimental' approach to problem solving, it was a simplified and popularized version of the scientific method, in much the same way that design thinking is a stylized — some say "dumbed down"— version of the methods designers use."
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