Design Thinking
... is a teaching concept developed at the famous d.school at Stanford University in California that enables students to develop innovative and particularly user-friendly (IT-based) products and services in multidisciplinary teams. The truly revolutionary aspect of the concept of Design Thinking is that both the three to four students in each team as well as their professors all come from different academic disciplines. Teams of computer scientists and usability experts, designers and management specialists, biologists, sociologists, and medical doctors work towards innovative solutions and the development of prototypes.
Since 2007 Hasso-Plattner-Institut offers in its HPI D-School a design thinking education. The truly revolutionary aspect of the concept of Design Thinking is that all the students in each team as well as their professors and coaches come from different academic disciplines. Computer scientists and usability experts, designers and management specialists, biologists, sociologists, and medical doctors work towards innovative solutions presented by self developed prototypes.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel is a coach for the D-School an has teached teams in the advanced courses since 2007.
