Design Sojourn

I agree that the d.school’s work around Design Thinking is an attempt to codify the design processes. This, as you suggest, will be particularly useful for non-designers who would like to develop some design skills because they have so many tools for design at their disposal today.

We can’t forget, however, that their original reason for trying to capture the design process was because even professional designers were trying to figure out how IDEO did so well at it. The question we kept asking was “How do they do it?” Design Thinking is IDEO and the d.school’s attempt to provide us some clues.

The other value to this work is that having some systematic understanding of design will allow us to move Design Thinking down into K-12 shcools. IDEAS (the International Design Education Alliance for Schools) is meeting at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 2010 to explore the policies, practices, and resources that will be necessary to advance the Decade of Design Education.

We would love to have your advice and input.
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The d.school needs to design an editor — this PDF is chock full of spelling errors, typos, and grammar errors.