Until you’ve consumed all of the best Design Thinking books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
1. Design Thinking for School Leaders: Five Roles and Mindsets That Ignite Positive Change (2018)
"Design is the rendering of intent." What if education leaders approached their work with the perspective of a designer? This new perspective of seeing the world differently is desperately needed in schools and begins with school leadership.Alyssa Gallagher and Kami Thordarson, widely recognized experts on Design Thinking, educational leadership, and innovative strategies, call this new perspective design-inspired leadership—one of the most powerful ways to ignite positive change and address education challenges using the same design and innovation principles that have been so successful in private industry.Design…
2. Innovation by Design: How Any Organization Can Leverage Design Thinking to Produce Change, Drive New Ideas, and Deliver Meaningful Solutions (2017)
Why are some organizations more innovative than others? How can we tap into, empower, and leverage the natural innovation within our organizations that is so vital to our future success? Now more than ever, companies and institutions of all types and sizes are determined to create more innovative organizations. In study after study, leaders say that fostering innovation and the need for transformational change are among their top priorities. But they also report struggling with how to engage their cultures to implement the changes necessary to maximize their innovative targets.In Innovation by Design, authors Thomas Lockwood and…
3. Design Thinking Process & Methods 5th Edition (2019)
Design thinking has become the new design doing that is sweeping the globe. Design thinking’s impact on how organizations go about solving problems has been profound. Design Thinking has the power to transform nearly everything. It is a human-centered approach for finding innovative real solutions to tough problems. Design thinking combines the approaches of design, management, and science to solve a wide range of difficult challenges. Design thinking can be used to develop products, services, and experiences as well as design and business strategy. Design,…
4. The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design (2015)
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design is your textbook to practicing human-centered design for social innovation. Written for both new and experienced practitioners, the Field Guide reveals IDEO.org’s process with the key mindsets that underpin how we think about design for the social sector, 57 clear-to-use design methods, worksheets and case studies of human-centered design in action. #25,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?…
5. Graphic Design Thinking (Design Briefs) (2014)
Creativity is more than an inborn talent; it is a hard-earned skill, and like any other skill, it improves with practice. Graphic Design Thinking: How to Define Problems, Get Ideas, and Create Form explores a variety of informal techniques ranging from quick, seat-of-the-pants approaches to more formal research methods for stimulating fresh thinking, and ultimately arriving at compelling and viable solutions. In the style with which author Ellen has come to been known hands-on, up-close approach to instructional design writing brainstorming techniques are grouped around the three…
6. Launch: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student (2016)
Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills—problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination—that will help them shape the world’s future … our future. If that’s true, why isn’t creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face every day: School can be busy. Materials can be scarce. The creative process can seem confusing. Curriculum requirements can feel limiting. Those…
7. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) (2014)
Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell.Using the same stunning visual format as the authors’ global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the “Value Proposition Canvas” to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers actually…
8. Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value (2009)
Design Thinking confirms that design, as a process and as an output, has greater opportunity to add value to the triple bottom line than any other business function. Ranked in the top 100 best seller list by Amazon in design, marketing, and communication book categories, Design Thinking explores point-of-views, techniques, methods, and hands-on case studies from international thought leaders. It covers design thinking methods; design thinking in service design; design thinking in brand building; and design thinking in creating customer experiences. The book includes insights by Thomas Lockwood along with…
9. This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World (2018)
How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You’ll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design successfully in an organization.Great customer experience needs a common language across disciplines to break down silos within an organization. This book provides a consistent model for accomplishing this and offers…
10. The Non-Designer’s Guide to Design Thinking: What a Marketer Learned in Design School (2017)
Introduction: “Design thinking seems to be an important way of thinking in 21st century business, but I am not sure where to begin.” Do you agree or not? If yes, this book is a good introduction to map the overall picture of learning design thinking. This book illustrates the key components of mastering design thinking based on author’s experience at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, one of the most famous Design schools in the world. The author highlights the difference between the business world and design world based on…
11. Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work (2011)
Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious “design ability.” Focusing on what designers do when they design, Design Thinking is structured around a series of in-depth case studies of outstanding and expert designers at work, interwoven with overviews and analyses. The range covered reflects the breadth of design, from hardware and software design, to architecture and Formula One. The book offers new insights and understanding of design thinking, based on evidence from observation and investigation of design practice. Author Nigel Cross, considered…
12. This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases (2012)
Service design thinking is the designing and marketing of services that improve the customer experience, and the interactions between the service providers and the customers. If you have two coffee shops right next to each other, and each sell the exact same coffee at the exact same price, service design is what makes you walk into one and not the other. Maybe one plays music and the other doesn’t. Maybe one takes credit cards and the other is cash only. Maybe you like the layout of one over the other, or one has more comfortable seating. Maybe the staff at one is friendlier, or…
13. Design Thinking Methodology Book (2016)
This book explains design thinking methodology that is applied by high-performing enterprises, start-ups and organizations in developing innovative It includes easily applicable design thinking techniques, such as A real-life case study is used to introduce design thinking methodology and techniques in a more practical way to a broad range of practitioners, including The book explains how artful thinking perspectives can be applied to enhance design thinking skills, such as It also describes how to apply design thinking and lean and agile methodologies together. #413,845 in…
14. Design Thinking in the Classroom: Easy-to-Use Teaching Tools to Foster Creativity, Encourage Innovation, and Unleash Potential in Every Student (2018)
Whether your students are tackling project-based learning or developing solutions in the STEM maker lab, design thinking will help them be more innovative. The design-thinking process, practices and mindsets teach 21st-century skills such as adaptability, collaboration and critical thinking. The design thinking program described in this book helps develop students’ mindsets in a way that is more conducive to producing innovative solutions. It allows students to apply their creativity to tackle real-world issues and achieve better results through the use of its five learning phases:…
Best Design Thinking Books to Read
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Design Thinking for Strategy: Innovating Towards Competitive Advantage
Author(s): Claude Diderich
Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2422428
Design Thinking And The New Spirit Of Capitalism: Sociological Reflections On Innovation Culture
Author(s): Tim Seitz
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, Year: 2020, Size: 1 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2442220
Service Design and Service Thinking in Healthcare and Hospital Management: Theory, Concepts, Practice
Author(s): Mario A. Pfannstiel, Christoph Rasche
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 14 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2309578
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking: The Australian Approach
Author(s): Rob Roggema
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 26 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2310846
Design Thinking Research: Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation
Author(s): Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 7 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2311705
Transforming an Idea Into a Business with Design Thinking: The Structured Approach from Silicon Valley for Entrepreneurs and Leaders
Author(s): Muhammad Mashhood Alam
Publisher: Routledge/Productivity Press, Year: 2019, Size: 12 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2316922
Transforming an idea into a business with design thinking : the structured approach from Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs and leaders
Author(s): Alam, Mashhood
Publisher: Routledge / Productivity Press, Year: 2019, Size: 12 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2351901
The Monkey-Proof Box: Curriculum design for building knowledge, developing creative thinking and promoting independence
Author(s): Jonathan Lear
Publisher: Independent Thinking Press, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2369120
Putting Design Thinking to Work: How Large Organizations Can Embrace Messy Institutions to Tackle Wicked Problems
Author(s): Steven Ney, Christoph Meinel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408445
Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation
Author(s): Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (eds.)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 9 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2153005
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are really record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.