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The Design Thinking Toolbox: A Guide to Mastering the Most Popular and Valuable Innovation Methods Paperback – 27 March 2020
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How to use the Design Thinking Tools
A practical guide to make innovation happen
The Design Thinking Toolbox explains the most important tools and methods to put Design Thinking into action. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking, the most popular methods are described in four pages each by an expert from the global Design Thinking community. If you are involved in innovation, leadership, or design, these are tools you need. Simple instructions, expert tips, templates, and images help you implement each tool or method.
- Quickly and comprehensively familiarize yourself with the best design thinking tools
- Select the appropriate warm-ups, tools, and methods
- Explore new avenues of thinking
- Plan the agenda for different design thinking workshops
- Get practical application tips
The Design Thinking Toolbox help innovators master the early stages of the innovation process. It’s the perfect complement to the international bestseller The Design Thinking Playbook.
- ISBN-101119629195
- ISBN-13978-1119629191
- Edition1st
- PublisherWiley
- Publication date27 March 2020
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions18.8 x 2.03 x 23.88 cm
- Print length320 pages
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"Design thinking is hot! This toolbox will help you see how many different and creative ways there are to approach any new market opportunity."
—MIRKO BOCCALATTE, COO, Ferrari F1 Team
"The Toolbox is an outstanding and easy to follow introduction to the most powerful design thinking methods and tools."
—PATRICK VAN DER PIJL, CEO of Business Models Inc., and author of Design a Better Business
"The authors offer a practical handbook for developing a new mindset in enterprises and encouraging innovation. Let yourself be inspired by this creative toolbox for design thinking!"
—PROF. YVES PIGNEUR, University of Lausanne, co-author of Business Model Generation
The Design Thinking Toolbox presents the most important tools and methods in the design thinking cycle. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking tools, this book includes explanations of the most popular design thinking methods from experts in the field. Simple instructions, expert tips, templates, and pictures of the application make The Design Thinking Toolbox a valuable resource, especially for beginners in design thinking. It is suitable for design thinkers who want to get familiar with the tools quickly and comprehensively. It is the ideal complement to the international bestseller The Design Thinking Playbook.
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"Design thinking is hot! This toolbox will help you see how many different and creative ways there are to approach any new market opportunity."
—MIRKO BOCCALATTE, COO, Ferrari F1 Team
"The Toolbox is an outstanding and easy to follow introduction to the most powerful design thinking methods and tools."
—PATRICK VAN DER PIJL, CEO of Business Models Inc., and author of Design a Better Business
"The authors offer a practical handbook for developing a new mindset in enterprises and encouraging innovation. Let yourself be inspired by this creative toolbox for design thinking!"
—PROF. YVES PIGNEUR, University of Lausanne, co-author of Business Model Generation
The Design Thinking Toolbox presents the most important tools and methods in the design thinking cycle. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking tools, this book includes explanations of the most popular design thinking methods from experts in the field. Simple instructions, expert tips, templates, and pictures of the application make The Design Thinking Toolbox a valuable resource, especially for beginners in design thinking. It is suitable for design thinkers who want to get familiar with the tools quickly and comprehensively. It is the ideal complement to the international bestseller The Design Thinking Playbook.
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- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (27 March 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119629195
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119629191
- Dimensions : 18.8 x 2.03 x 23.88 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 11,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2 in Business Entrepreneurship Textbooks
- 10 in Design Textbooks
- 10 in Business Encyclopaedias
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About the author

Michael Lewrick (PhD) had different roles over the last years. He was responsible for strategic growth, acted as Chief Innovation Officer and laid the foundation for numerous growth initiatives in sectors that are in the digital transformation. At the moment he advises internationally the most inovative companies with his concepts and frameworks about design thinking for business growth, innovation and success.
He is a motivational international speaker and teaches Design Thinking as a visiting professor at various universities. With his help, a number of international companies have developed and commercialized radical innovations. In his international bestselller, “The Design Thinking Playbook”, he postulated with his colleagues from Stanford University a new mindset of converging approaches of Design Thinking in digitization. In 2020 he published together with Larry Leifer and Patrick Link "The Design Thinking Toolbox" outlining 50 of the most valuable Design Thinking tools. In addition, he published "The Design Thinking Life Playbook", which applies the design thinking mindset for personal change and career planing. His latest book "Design Thinking for Business Growth" focusses on the design of business ecosystems completing a series of books for applied design.
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CONS - Design thinking feels like a new way of talking about agile, just-in-time, co-building, etc, so has an air of "emperor's new clothes" about it.


Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2020




If I had to critique... I would say fleshing out the workshops step by step would work. Some feel a little TOO bullet pointed