Design Thinking: Phenomenology of early stages of creativity, ideation, affect, communication, design decisions and actions

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Love Services Pty Ltd

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This paper focuses on exploration of the phenomenological aspects of human internal design activities that precede, or transition into, conscious thought, creative ideas, decisions, feelings, words, body states and movements, and actions that are the foundation of Design Thinking. These early stages in Design Thinking are important because they are gatekeepers of what is envisaged and created by a designer, and also provide the foundation of communication, decisions and actions.
Study of these early stage and prior foundational phenomena of Design Thinking provide improved foundations for theories about Design Thinking. The relative lack of attention to these phenomena in previous Design Thinking literature is at least in part because such exploration requires the designer undertaking significant additional training to acquire the necessary phenomenological skills of self-perception specific to these phenomena. The paper reports the basis of exploratory research into these phenomenological foundations of Design Thinking undertaken by the author over a 4-year period. The paper includes a detailed description of the research method and four findings that add to the theoretical foundations of Design Thinking.

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Journal of Design Thinking

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Available Online from 26 February 2024

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