The design thinking reading, viewing, involvement guide

For those that are interested in finding out more about design thinking, the following are list of books, articles, blogs, videos, and programs related to design thinking, curated by the members of d.thinking Ponts Paristech. We will continue to update the list as we discover more content

Books

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
by Tim Brown
IDEO CEO Tim Brown "introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy." (from Amazon)

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
by Roger Martin
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto explains how design can help companies be more innovative and shares many successful cases, most prominently P&G.

The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
by Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman
Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman explain the ten personas needed for breakthrough innovation and highlights some success stories when those personas come together.

A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
by Hartmut Esslinger
Frog Design cofounder known for his iconic work with Apple, Sony, Lufthansa and more shares his shares his perspective of design and innovation in the new global economy. Esslinger's positions design in the perspective of corporate strategy and how design offers an opportunity to influence strategic decisions.

Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
by Dev Patnaik
Veteran business strategist and founder of Jump Associates, Dev Patnaik discusses the role of empathy in successful companies through case studies which he was involved in.

Designing Interactions
by Bill Moggridge
The IDEO co-founder and award winning designer introduces forty people who have changed the way we interact with technology. Some of the interviewees include Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Google, Will Wright, the creator of The Sims, and Hiroshi Ishii from the MIT Media Lab.

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
by Roberto Verganti
Politecnico di Milano professor Verganti pushes the notion of working with "interpreters" in order to create new markets and push new meaning that consumers don't even know they want.

Articles

Harvard Business Review: Design Thinking
by Tim Brown
IDEO CEO Tim Brown explains design thinking and how it can transform the way we develop products, services, processes, and strategy.

Fast Company: Ideo’s David Kelley on "Design Thinking"
by Linda Tischler
Fast Company profiles IDEO cofounder David Kelley and his endeavors with IDEO and the Stanford d.school as well as his personal challenges.

Bloomberg Businessweek: Special Report on Design Thinking
A collection of articles on design thinking from various perspectives: academic, corporate, and international.

Bloomberg Businessweek: The Power of Design
by Bruce Nussbaum
A marquee article on IDEO that put the company at the forefront of the innovation field and possibly kickstarted the design thinking movement.

Rotman Management: The Design of Business
by Roger Martin
Roger Martin argues that business people not only need to understand designers, they need to become designers.

Design Thinking and How It Will Change Management Education: An Interview and Discussion
by David Dunne and Roger Martin
David Dunne, co-director of the Rotman Teaching Effec-tiveness Centre at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, interviews Roger Martin and discusses and critiques the role of design thinking in the evolution of MBA programs.

Core77: Design Thinking: Dear Don…
by Bill Moggridge
IDEO cofounder and now the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Bill Moggridge responds to Don Norman's article "Design Thinking: A Useful Myth."

New York Times: Design Is More Than Packaging
by Janet Rae-Dupree
A New York Times article compares our traditional notion of design with design thinking and what it is capable of.

California Management Review: Innovation as a Learning Process: Embedding Design Thinking
by Sara L. Beckman and Michael Barry
Sara Beckman from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Michael Barry of Point Forward explain a model of design thinking broken down to four core elements. This article won the California Management Review’s Annual Accenture award in 2009.

Needfinding: The Why and How of Uncovering People’s Needs
by Dev Patnaik and Robert Becker
An article on needfinding by Robert Becker and Dev Patnaik, the founder of hybrid strategy firm, Jump Associates. Needfinding is the art and science of uncovering latent user needs in order to design products and services that fit people’s lives.

ParisTech Review: The Power of Prototyping(French)
by Sushi Suzuki
An article by d.thinking Ponts ParisTech cofounder Sushi Suzuki discussing the use of prototyping beyond what is normally thought of as a "prototype."

Videos

AIGA Design Conference: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage
by Roger Martin
In the context of business, Roger Martin discusses the power of design thinking as a combination of analytical and intuitive thinking.

TED: Tim Brown urges designers to think big
by Tim Brown
Filmed in 2009, Tim Brown discusses design thinking with cases from around the world and over time.

TED: David Kelley on human-centered design
by David Kelley
A 2002 presentation by David Kelley discussing the "new broader definition of design in products, services, and environments" and highlighting cases from IDEO.

TEDxNHH: Sushi Suzuki asks "What the heck is design anyway?"
by Sushi Suzuki
Sushi Suzuki discusses the meaning of design through designed objects and launches the TEDxNHH Design Challenge.

Blogs

Design Thinking
by IDEO
Infrequently updated posts by IDEO CEO Tim Brown focusing on topics related to design thinking.

design mind
by Frog Design
Frequently updated posts bydesigners, engineers, and business developers of frog design, a global innovation firm. Focuses on variety of topics ranging from innovation management to energy monitoring..

d.school news
by Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford
The official blog of the Stanford "d.school" containing both updates from their activities and free material and guides for design thinkers and doers worldwide.

Programs

Stanford Institute of Design
The original "d.school" founded in 2004 by IDEO founder David Kelley and SAP cofounder Hasso Plattner. While not a degree issuing program, students and professors from various departments at Stanford University come together to learn and teach design thinking through a diverse set of projects.

ME310
A global design innovation course started at Stanford University over forty years ago and now being taught around the world. Students from universities in different countries collaborate on corporate innovation projects for one year. d.thinking Ponts Paristech has been a part of the ME310 network since 2009.

HPI School of Design Thinking
Also started by SAP cofounder Hasso Plattner in 2007 at the Hasso Plattner Institute, HPI School of Design Thinking invites students from around the world to participate in innovation projects to learn and practice their design thinking skills..

Aalto Design Factory
The Design Factory at Aalto University in Helsinki Finland is a platform for multidisciplinary design activity as well as design research. In addition to being the home for programs such as PDP and ME310, the space also hosts the Aalto Venture Garage. The Design Factory concept has been adopted at Tongji University in China..

Tokyo University i.school
i.school at Tokyo University is a cross disciplinary educational program under the Center for Knowledge Structuring. It invites prominent design thinker from around Japan and the world to lecture and host workshops..

Open IDEO
OpenIDEO is an open innovation platform hosted by IDEO where people come together to design for social good. It's open to everyone!