Design Thinking in Practice: a conversation between Allen Higgins & Dawan Stanford — DT101 E115

<p dir="ltr">Allen Higgins joins me as we share host and guest roles to talk about design practice systems and creating for and with the people we serve. Alan is a research associate and lecturer in the Center for Innovation Technology and Organization in the School of Business at University College Dublin.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Listen to learn about:</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Design and design thinking process</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Design thinking mindset</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How to introduce design thinking to teams and organizations</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What is innovation?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Design Justice and ethical design </p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Our Guest</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Allen Higgins is a researcher/lecturer in the Management Information Systems subject area in the UCD College of Business—University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a member of the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organization (CITO) and the UCD Centre for Business and Society.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">[00:39] Script is flipped! Dawan talks about how he got into design thinking.</p> <p dir="ltr">[02:14] Launching Fluid Hive in 2008.</p> <p dir="ltr">[02:38] Allen’s interest came while developing a course for university.</p> <p dir="ltr">[04:48] Allen and Dawan compare how they approach design thinking</p> <p dir="ltr">[06:46] The big question: What problem are we trying to solve?</p> <p dir="ltr">[08:30] Finding the problem is the real problem.</p> <p dir="ltr">[09:30] IDEO as people’s first introduction to design thinking.</p> <p dir="ltr">[10:05] There is no single recipe for innovation.</p> <p dir="ltr">[10:40] Experienced designers are comfortable with ambiguity.</p> <p dir="ltr">[11: