I read this little tidbit over at Fast Company about how Design Thinking will give way to the next big thing: Hybrid Design. I found myself having the same thoughts as those who responded to the article. Most of those folks believed there was nothing really new being mentioned in the article other than the creation of a new term to describe what’s already been happening for a while – a loooooong while.
So it got me thinking.
We call it “design thinking’ but a key aspect of design thinking is actually doing. It’s about thinking by acting, or perhaps more properly, thinking through acting…
but then, maybe it’s by thinking by and through acting…
~Switch gears~
…While watching the Stanley Cup playoffs at my brother’s house, my kindergarten aged niece asked me to play a game entitled, “Invisible, Shminvisible.”
Even though my niece explained it carefully, I wasn’t able to really figure it out through listening. So, I started playing the game with her and she and her older brother directed me. Soon, I was a participant in the game. It made sense.
Which brings us back to the discussion at hand. I learned by playing and through playing. It wasn’t about sitting down with a rule book (which I ‘m thankful for because I’m quite sure that such a book would be at least 5 – 10 pages long if penned in “instruction manual” lingo.) It was about the wonderful process of looking, understanding and making.
So, bringing us full circle here:
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