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Rael Futerman at The Conversation shows how design thinking prepares students for the working world.
Design thinking can be used very successfully as an academic programme that goes beyond traditional university practices. It allows universities to prepare a more resilient, adaptive student cohort. These graduates are more competent to enter economies that are constantly changing.
An Introduction to Design Thinking by the Interaction Design Foundation
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? What’s special about Design Thinking is that designers’ work processes can help us systematically extract, teach, learn and apply these human-centered techniques to solve problems in a creative and innovative way – in our designs, in our businesses, in our countries, in our lives. (Read the rest: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/what-is-design-thinking-and-why-is-it-so-popular)