Design · Design Thinking & Method
A topic within Design Thinking & Method, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
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Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
Sets out empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test as a repeatable sequence of concrete methods, treating design thinking as a set of exercises to run rather than a mindset to adopt.
Michael Diehl & Wolfgang Stroebe
Shows experimentally that groups following Osborn's brainstorming rules produce fewer and lower-quality ideas than the same number of people working alone, and traces the loss to production blocking rather than social loafing.
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