Overview
- Based on scientific evidence from the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program
- Provides outlook on the emerging field of neurodesign research
- Highlights how design thinking can tap the potential of digital technologies in a human-centered way
Part of the book series: Understanding Innovation (UNDINNO)
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About this book
Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. The participating researchers have identified metrics, developed models, and conducted studies, which are featured in this book, and in the previous volumes of this series.
Offering readers a closer look at design thinking, and its innovation processes and methods, this volume addresses the new and growing field of neurodesign, which applies insights from the neurosciences in order to improve design team performance.
Thinking and devising innovations are inherently human activities – and so is design thinking. Accordingly, design thinking is not merely the result of special courses or of being gifted or trained: it is a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques, technologies and life in general.As such, the research outcomes compiled in this book are intended to inform and provide inspiration for all those seeking to drive innovation – be they experienced design thinkers or newcomers.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Applying Design Thinking Practices
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Larry Leifer is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, CA, USA. Dr. Leifer's engineering design thinking research is focused on instrumenting design teams to understand, support, and improve design practice and theory. Specific issues include: design-team research methodology, global team dynamics, innovation leadership, interaction design, design-for-wellbeing, and adaptive mechatronic systems. Dr. Leifer has taught Design Innovation for decades and continues to redesign the course ever year with new methodologies and technologies. Once a design student himself at Stanford University, he has started many design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR). A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, his research themes include: creating collaborative engineering environments for distributed product innovation teams, instrumentating those environments for design knowledge capture, indexing, reuse, and performance assessment, and design-for-wellbeing, socially responsible and sustainable engineering.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design Thinking Research
Book Subtitle: Investigating Design Team Performance
Editors: Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer
Series Title: Understanding Innovation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28960-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28959-1Published: 05 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28962-1Published: 05 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28960-7Published: 25 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-5752
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5760
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 310
Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Software Engineering, Neurosciences, IT in Business, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Media Management