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User-Centered Design

An Introduction to Design Thinking PROCESS GUIDE

An explanation of IDEO's Design Thinking process, to ensure we approach design in a human-centered way.

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Institute Of Design At Stanford
Jan 01, 2010 • 12 min read
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User-Centered Design
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Summary

A well-detailed design thinking guide, briefly all the stages of designing a user-centered product that is important to them. The Institute of Design at Stanford takes us through these stages explaining what each step means, why it is important, and how to execute it as a design thinker. Open the article to learn about what, why, and how to Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and finally Test a product when designing.

Takeaways

  • As a design thinker, the problems you are trying to solve are rarely your own—they are those of a particular group of people; in order to design for them, you must gain empathy for who they are and what is important to them.
  • Empathy is key to creating great innovations by simply getting to know about the users of that specific product.
  • In designing, an empathize mode is the work you do to understand people, within the context of your design challenge
  • While designing framing the right problem is the only way to create the right solution. Also, It’s not about coming up with the ‘right’ idea, it’s about generating the broadest range of possibilities.

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