Design Thinking vs. Problem Solving

What's the difference between design thinking and problem solving? What do you do in each?

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In this video, Eric Moore shares how design thinking compares to traditional problem solving. He shares how it differs in collaboration, brainstorming, designing, and outcomes.

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[jasonblackman]

"Done is better than perfect" is the quote I heard a while back. Minor adjustments can be done if needed.

[drfredcreedon]

I like slide 2 in particular, rather than a broad "problem solving" perspective, I prefer to frame it as a traditional/linear/sequential problem-solving approach. I think a lot of smart people and organisations problem solve in a designerly way but don't necessarily call it design thinking. There is a spectrum of 'traditional methodological problem solving' and 'designerly problem solving'.

[justin_womack]

The last part is so important too because it’s much easier to swallow someone shooting down design iteration 33of50.jpg than it is to have your “perfect work of art”, that you meticulously designed, shot down in a heartbeat.

[patbollin]

This is a great breakdown of the difference btwn average or bad problem solving and bad teamwork vs good problem solving and good teamwork. “Design Thinking” is nothing more than trendy buzz words made up to attract clients and/or corporate executives who have happily lapped this stuff up and added it to their corporate lexicon of nonsense.

[jumabannister]

excellent breakdown. You had me from accountability!

[dannyr]

Within the creative environments I've been part of, neither design thinking or problem solving approaches were employed, which of course led to rushed dreadful results. Any attempt to form a plan of action simply meant I was taking too long!

[MarketingHarry]

Well presented and useful information. Thanks for sharing! 👌

[guylaineregimbald]

Good breakdown. I laughed at the pool on the island.

[louisbouwer]

From my perspective Design Thinking is just one of several Problem Solving approaches, therefore cannot compete. It is a research domain within the larger paradigm.

[livumagoqwana]

Super helpful awesome 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[ScribaeEducantum]

Hi 👋 thanks, nice job 👍
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. 🥇

John C. Maxwell

[MyEClassinBytes]

Very valuable information... thanks for sharing! 😊

[YanivCorem]

This makes absolutely no sense, I'm sorry. First of, I'm not sure why this question or comparison is even necessary? Design Thinking has kind of become the traditional problem solving approach. Most teams today employ sophisticated working, processes, even the larger and/or more traditional companies. What makes Design Thinking unique is that it's a human-centered approach to problem solving. While other methods focus on systems, business, strategy, market etc... Design Thinking starts with people - users, customers - builds empathy and evolves a set of solutions from insights (or unique points of view) gleaned from user research. There are a few more tenants to the methodology, but the most important one is that it's human centric.

[charlesfate]

Awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Are you saying client can see it at raw state before presentation?

[lyusinator]

"Wild & fun ideas can flourish" is basically an assumption you talk negatively about from the beginning.

[nuloom]

this sounds like this whole ‘sigma male’ thing all over, but for fragile ego designers instead of fragile masculinity men. “”design thinking”” is exactly the same as problem solving, but better in every possible way. it’s the exact same process, you might say, but you’d be wrong.. because we’ve added negative adjectives to the traditional problem solving part, and positive ones to our new Design Thinking ©. We’re doing the same thing, but better. And then it’s completely wrong. Sometimes you want to accomplish a rigid goal, sometimes you don’t want wild ideas, and sometimes you want a flexible goal or glorious and fun ideas. Working within those restrictions is what problem solving is all about. It depends on the situation. If you do not have the flexibility to understand that and therefore are called a poor problem solver, you should work on your skills, not invent a new “better” term for yourself. There is no “Traditional Problem Solving” or “Design Thinking”. There is only good problem solving and bad problem solving processes, and they operate within restrictions, like degree of self-censorship, outcome goals, and research budget. Probably the worst part about it is how it’s sold. Instead of promoting ways to improve one’s problem solving process gradually to make it as good as it can be given any restrictions that can’t be broken, it’s “discard everything! this is the best!”. It’s easy to throw ideals around.

[lesfin]

You guys still use the “Brainstorming” term?

[kathryncainmadsen]

There are many ways to solve problems. Learn more about Critical Friends and other systems. There are NOT only two options. This video should have been called Why Design Thinking is the only right way to solve problems. Lol.

[shadesofskittles]

I'm fortunate, I'm both a manager and a designer. Lol

Those white backgrounds make my eyes wanna bleed though.

[eugenmalatov]

what a bull**** . Of course DT looks super good if you put it in a contest against a strawman.