Design Thinking Process & Methods 5th Edition

This book is a very helpful resource if you need the basics on design thinking. To the critics boo-hoo'ing over the book being self-published and having some typos, have YOU self-published a book like this? Nope. For design thinking enthusiasts, this book should be a staple on your shelf. The reason why some critics find it hard to use is because they don't know design thinking. This book FUNCTIONS LIKE A HANDBOOK. It's perfect for when you're designing/planning a sprint or trying to grasp an understanding of methods & tools and how to use them. I suggest you GET THIS BOOK.

A helpful resource for anyone studying or using design thinking in their organisation. Easy to read, bulleted steps, templates, etc. taking you through the entire process.

I have been a teacher of design several times in my career spanning over the past 40 years. I am always looking for reference materials that students can continue using for a long time after graduation. This book is a compilation of information from multiple sources and is a handy resource for practicing design thinking. I believe there isn’t one authoritative definition or template of design thinking. This author not claim his own version as the one and the only template. Rather he provides exhaustive overview of multiple perspectives and tools that are useful. I will encourage students to use this book to gain exhaustive understanding of Design thinking and then create their own practice. Thanks Rob for this invaluable reference.

Wow. Every page of this book so far has errors in grammar and punctuation, consistency, and sentence fragments. For a book on design thinking, very little thought has been paid to the design of the book itself. I've just finished two full pages of lists that have no introductory context, making it difficult to understand their relevance to the chapter they're in. There seem to be a lot of filler graphics about Google trends in searches for design thinking. No need to sell me on the value of a topic I'm trying to parse the information about, though it seems that's going to be quite a challenge.

Granted, I do not know if this book was actually self-published but it sure has the appearance of a self published book. Horrible layout, many of the included graphics are pixelated, and the copy is not thought through or edited properly. This seems like someone had a nice powerpoint and thought to themselves. "Hey, why don't I turn this into a book?" The author/seller claims that this is being used as a text at top design schools. I doubt that. I did totally fall for it, it's what sold me on this book, but since it clearly cannot live up to the claim I will return it. Just to give you an idea of how poorly laid out the book is: If you look at the way the table of contents is set up in those two narrow columns, that's essentially how the entire book is set up. My advice, either buy a different 'edition' or better yet altogether stay away.

Great information, but for a dealing book there is no design to the order or delivery of the information. That said the information is good and in some cases great. You just have a to hunt for it.

This is a wonderful comprehensive overview of design thinking with backgrounds, trends, and methods.

The book I received was printed upside down AND backwards!

This product is substantially “Personal Notes on Design Thinking” . There are many Typing errors, things that would never happen in an edited book. It provides a rather confusing set of informations on design thinking but does not truly present them in an homogeneous nor systematic way: rather confusing to follow as also some parts tend to be repeated. Honestly I bought this book in the intention of achieving a systematic approach, a guided toolkit. Probably I wouldn’t have bought it if I knew what it was going to be like.

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A very fundamental and complete approach to Design Thinking and its methods.

Bad quality of the publication, content organization and printing

In-depth overview of the design thinking storyline and processes involved, very well written content-wise, an interesting read, but full of flaws nonetheless. Misses the mark on production, many graphs shown throughout the book don’t look polished or barely understandable (it’s printed on black and white paper, on very basic quality, and makes it look like it belonged to a book meant to be downloaded to a tablet) and makes me wonder of the intention behind publishing this book. It’s also full of typos, as some have commented before. I’d gladly pay more for this book, had it been more thoroughly produced, and of more quality, but as it is, it is nothing but unfulfilled potential