Design Thinking: A Guide to Innovation

Design thinking is a human-centered approach for tackling complex problems. It is used in creative problem solving to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions. Science educator and author Fred Estes explains each of the six steps in the design thinking model—notice and reflect, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test—and provides examples of its practical, real-world applications. The strateg...