design thinking

for higher education

Strategies

Preparing the brief

Imagining a day in the life

Challenging assumptions

Remembering the future

Framing the question

Exploring the field

Saturating your space

Mapping concepts and themes

Building a persona

Finding a point of view

All methods developed and written by

André Nusselder

and edited by

María del Carmen Arau Ribeiro

Download all the 16 strategies in one file here: All strategies DT.Uni

As societies are facing many and huge challenges (social, environmental) design thinking should go beyond fulfilling user needs to also intervening in larger systems. That’s why many of the strategies presented here are imbibing elements of systems thinking. This allows the designer to go beyond the analysis of individual parts to see the larger environment of relations that the problem is part of. We think that in order to be a good design thinker one also must be a systems thinker!

thinking in systems: