This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University
in Palo Alto California USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam Germany. The authors
offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods.
The contents of the articles range from how to design ideas methods and technologies via
creativity experiments and wicked problem solutions to creative collaboration in the real
world and the connectivity of designers and engineers. But the topics go beyond this in their
detailed exploration of design thinking and its use in IT systems engineering fields and even
from a management perspective. The authors show how these methods and strategies work in
companies introduce new technologies and their functions and demonstrate how Design Thinking
can influence as diverse a topic area as marriage. Furthermore we see how special design
thinking use functions in solving wicked problems in complex fields. Thinking and creating
innovations are basically and inherently human - so is Design Thinking. Due to this Design
Thinking is not only a factual matter or a result of special courses nor of being gifted or
trained: it's a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques technologies and
life.
