What on earth is Design Thinking?

Why Design Thinking?

Design thinking is a methodology for practical, creative resolution of problems or issues that looks for an improved future result. As a style of thinking, it is the ability to combine empathy for the context of a problem, creativity in the generation of insights and solutions, and rationality to analyze and fit solutions to the context. wikipedia.

Read all about how the Design Thinking process drives the challenge here.

This is a collection of curriculum created by the K-12 Lab at the Stanford design school and teachers who are using design thinking in their schools. Please feel free to use all of the resources presented here. d.school have organized the curriculum in multiple formats to so that you can can search in the way that is most appropriate for your work.

The kit is split into sections for easy download. You can also view online at the d.school wiki. These resources were created by d.school and are free for you to use and share – and we hope you do. We only ask that you respect the Creative Commons license (attribution, noncommercial use).

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Key documents

Teachers

• Design Thinking for Educators toolkit (PDF 20.4 MB)
• An Educator’s Guide to Design Thinking (PDF 4.8 MB)
• Bootcamp bootleg (PDF 3.6MB)
• d.school mindsets (PDF 223 KB

Supporting resources and tools

Here are some great tools and resources. Most are free.