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Frequently Asked Questions about Design Thinking

InnovationTraining.org

How can design thinking help with product development? Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves empathy for the user, creative ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions. It is often used in the design of products, services, and experiences. What are the principles of design thinking?

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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As our lives become more automated, these are the skills you’ll need

Faisal Hoque

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. Most likely, the latter came out of school with more polished communication, teamwork, decision-making, problem-solving, and creative abilities. FOCUSING ON “SOFT SKILLS” PAYS OFF–LITERALLY.

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The Quality Chronicles

CorporateIntel

Information compounds on our desktops, the team with analysis paralysis most often loses to the nimble risk takers—but all this means is that in product development , the role of Quality Assurance (QA) has never been more critical. You want an industry defining product, show us the money or don’t ask for a date.

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Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

Boxes and Arrows

I built a team with a dedicated user researcher; information architect; interaction and visual designers and we even made a guerilla usability lab and had regular test sessions. As the Creative Director, I deferred authority to him to develop the product as he saw fit. This is an extreme example of where SCRUM went bad.

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The Artist and The Innovator

Leanstack

A year later, Steve is still building his product. He has no product revenue and relies on part-time freelancing work to fund his product development. On the other hand, Larry has a growing customer base, revenue, and team. Steve felt proud to have been part of the core team. And he works alone.

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The Art of Agile

etventure

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. If it is not applied properly, agile development can easily turn into chaos! Commence development – which might take many months to complete. What is Agile?

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