Design Thinking... again

Based on a review of writing on the topic, I have synthesized for myself what I understand design thinking to be…

• Collaborative, especially with others having different and complimentary experience, to generate better work and form agreement
  
• Abductive, inventing new options to find new and better solutions to new problems
  
• Experimental, building prototypes and posing hypotheses, testing them, and iterating this activity to find what works and what doesn’t work to manage risk
  
• Personal, considering the unique context of each problem and the people involved
  
• Integrative, perceiving an entire system and its linkages
  
• Interpretive, devising how to frame the problem and judge the possible solutions