Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-59).
Contents:
Understanding design thinking. A brief history -- The design thinking mindset -- The design thinking process -- Design thinking in libraries. User-centered vs. human-centered approaches -- Working with constraints -- Design thinking from the field. Implicit applications of design thinking -- Explicit applications of design thinking -- Tools and services to support design thinking -- For the future. There's more to design than design thinking -- From human-centered design to values-centered design -- The intentional embrace of design.
Summary:
"The Library Futures Series continues with this primer on design thinking, broadly defined as an approach to problem solving which prioritizes empathy with and deeper understandings of users to define a problem; actively engages in prototyping to develop solutions; and iterates solutions through implementation and resulting modification"-- Provided by publisher.
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