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DesignThinking Grows Up — Welcome to Experience Thinking. DesignThinking is an incredibly powerful way to approach the design of just about anything that involves an interaction with people (or other intelligent creatures). We call it "Experience Thinking" , or XT. Powerful indeed!
There is now a relatively good body of knowledge and toolset available for designing customer experiences. Most of these have evolved from Design Methods – the tools associated with DesignThinking (which, when applied to the design of service experiences, has given rise to the phrase Service DesignThinking).
Professionally, they have been exposed to ideas like Lean Startup, DesignThinking, Experiential Learning, and Engagement Marketing. They are, in effect, the product of an entirely new world of thinking; one both more digital and connected and in some ways more human and pragmatic.
This ushered in the era we are now in⃜ an era of looking, listening, feeling, smelling, and tasting – and, most importantly, of thinking deeply about the outcomes people need and the underlying human motivations behind them (the essence of DesignThinking).
This human centrality only happens when we are intentional about good design. Bad design happens when we don't care enough to think through the design, when we don't want to be bothered with the hard work it takes to use designthinking and work through all the nooks and crannies of our designs from every possible perspective.
This is where the mix of DesignThinking , Outcome-Driven Innovation , and Customer Experience design truly shines! All three of these require knowing each customer segment inside and out ⃜ figuring out what their deepest and truest outcome needs and wants are — what we call an empathic understanding.
Indeed, the pursuit of human–centric value delivery approaches like DesignThinking demand that we be able to test out many market and design hypotheses so as to prove or disprove them. Doing this necessarily demands a certain amount of time, space, and resources that don't easily lend themselves to "lean" analysis.
This means – as we have been so well taught through DesignThinking – that we have to come to fully understand their situation and context, their values, priorities, and motivations, and ultimately their real outcome needs.
The discipline's contributions are very well known⃜ human–centric design and designthinking, together with many powerful design methods like personas, empathy maps, customer experience journey maps, and probably a hundred or more creativity hacks, all used to study and better understand needs and solutions.
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