Until you’ve consumed all of the best Design Thinking books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Design Thinking for School Leaders: Five Roles and Mindsets That Ignite Positive Change (2018)
- Innovation by Design: How Any Organization Can Leverage Design Thinking to Produce Change, Drive New Ideas, and Deliver Meaningful Solutions (2017)
- Design Thinking Process & Methods 5th Edition (2019)
- The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design (2015)
- Graphic Thinking (Design Briefs) (2014)
- Launch: Using Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student (2016)
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) (2014)
- Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value (2009)
- This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World (2018)
- The Non-Designer’s Guide to Design Thinking: What a Marketer Learned in Design School (2017)
- Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work (2011)
- This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases (2012)
- Design Thinking Methodology Book (2016)
- Design Thinking in the Classroom: Easy-to-Use Teaching Tools to Foster Creativity, Encourage Innovation, and Unleash Potential in Every Student (2018)
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?
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.
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.
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.
Graphic 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.
Launch: Using 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 think…
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.
Best Design Thinking Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some design thinking books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Growth thinking: think, design, growth hack - a design approaching to growth hacking
Author(s): Sabry, Nader
ID: 2875328, Publisher: Nader Sabry, Year: 2021, Size: 14 Mb, Format: epub
Design Thinking - The Handbook
Author(s): Falk Uebernickel, Li Jiang, Walter Brenner, Britta Pukall, Therese Naef, Bernhard Schindlholzer
ID: 2878165, Publisher: World Scientific, Year: 2021, Size: 369 Mb, Format: pdf
Design Thinking for Strategy: Innovating Towards Competitive Advantage
Author(s): Claude Diderich
ID: 2422428, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2020, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
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.