Agile vs Design Thinking – What is the difference?

Design Thinking is a mindset or model to innovatively solve a problem. The Agile methodology is an efficient development process that divides the work into realistic and manageable portions, or sprints. Products and services can be built quicker while constantly seeking feedback and pivoting as appropriate.

When you combine Agile and Design Thinking, you can rapidly build a solution based on the creative ideas born through Design Thinking.

In this video Alvin explains how one might implement this in practice so the combination builds ultimate effeciency and productivity.

Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
00:44 – What is Design Thinking?
02:15 – What is Agile Methodology?
02:48 – Combining Design Thinking & Agile Methodology
08:00 – Summary: Design Thinking + Agile

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[rajeshm]

Excellent explanation of how design and agile sprints work. Thanks.

[nstavilo]

Pure gold; short and straightforward to the point! Thank you! 🍺

[AntonioBonev]

I really like this visualization of an approach where you can combine and use the best of both worlds. Kudos!

[jgdesigner]

Good content! I like to hear from many sources what an effective product development process looks like, because we all have slightly different approaches and we need to adapt ourselves to different teams. What works for me now can be different tomorrow, we learn and implement.

[ramzibergman]

Keep it up, I enjoy the presentation style and its to the point!

[linda_misauer]

How would you overlay SDLC phases with the Design Thinking phases? Would all the design sprints be done in the Requirements & Design SDLC phase i.e. Design thining is a better way to get requirements & design outputs? Then you move onto SDLC Imlpemetation Agile Sprint

[gatozion]

Thank you so much for this video, i really appreciate it. I'm interested in Lean UX, do you guys use this method?