A dreadfully incomplete list of Design thinking tips, tools and courses
What is this? As the name suggests this is a list of tools that span design thinking and human-centred design. The tools go both ways because Design thinking draws a lot from human-centred design and vice versa.
Who if this for Well, you may have gotten a flavour of design thinking before or you might be interested, sceptical or confused. Potentially a mix of all of those. This is list of trusted resources that might help you ‘learn by doing’ in the design thinking space.
Videos worth watching
Ingredients for Design thinking
The diagram below is a good way to think about — and compare — how Design Thinking may differ from other design / creative thinking approaches. Hassi & Laakso, 2011
Online Toolkits and Research tools
Ethics
Little Book of Design Research Ethics IDEO
Ethics Guidebook Academic edition (other resources as well)
Government codes and Guidelines for Australia
Interviews
User Interviews: How, When, and Why to Conduct Them by Kara Pernice
Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer IIT Institute of Design
How Louis Theroux Asks A Question
Three flavours of Research Planning
Flavour 1 by Péter Balázs Polgár
Flavour 2 by Margie Mateo Villanueva
Flavour 3 by Johny vino
Toolkits
Collective Action Toolkit frog
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design IDEO
Design Thinking for Educators IDEO
Design Kit Methods IDEO
Development Impact and You Nesta
Hyper Island Toolbox Hyper Island
Disruptive Design Toolkit Unschool
Circular Design Guide IDEO
Designing for Public Services Nesta, IDEO
Convivial Toolbox Liz Sanders
d.school resources Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
18F Methods US Government
Service Design Tools 💖 Roberta Tassi
Free courses online
Introduction to Human-Centered Design Acumen
Design Thinking Action Lab Stanford* only during semesters
Designing Futures RMIT University
Design Thinking Virtual Crash Course Stanford
Design Kit IDEO
Paid courses
Design Thinking Monash University
Insights for Innovation IDEOU
Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization frog and Lynda
Design Thinking for Innovation Coursera
Methods to Synthesis Udemy
Presentations and podcasts
Introduction to Human Centred Design made for Code for Australia
IDEO Design thinking workshop 2016
IDEO U Design thinking resources
Stanford Social Innovation Review Design thinking podcasts
Back to the history if you are interested: Design thinking origin story plus some of the people who made it all happen
