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Design Thinking Books
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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.89 — 10,970 ratings — published 2009
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,132 ratings — published 2013
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,071 ratings — published 1988
The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,022 ratings — published 2009
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,931 ratings — published 2010
Design Thinking: Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.85 — 448 ratings — published 2009
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,255 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,330 ratings — published 2001
Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by (shelved 38 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.99 — 950 ratings — published 2011
The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 36 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.88 — 473 ratings — published 2018
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.90 — 22,450 ratings — published 2016
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.55 — 313 ratings — published 2011
The Design Thinking Toolbox: A Guide to Mastering the Most Popular and Valuable Innovation Methods (Design Thinking Series)
by (shelved 26 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.24 — 199 ratings — published
101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.06 — 699 ratings — published 2012
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 23 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,529 ratings — published 2000
Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.61 — 401 ratings — published 2013
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,686 ratings — published 2005
The Designful Company: How to Build a Culture of Nonstop Innovation (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.00 — 526 ratings — published 2008
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,780 ratings — published 2010
Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.14 — 525 ratings — published 2011
Business Model Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.21 — 58,716 ratings — published 2010
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 17 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,446 ratings — published 2003
Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.00 — 496 ratings — published 2009
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.36 — 555 ratings — published 2016
Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.77 — 424 ratings — published 2015
Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,563 ratings — published 2008
Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis (Human Technology Interaction Series)
by (shelved 16 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.09 — 210 ratings — published 2010
Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by (shelved 15 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.68 — 197 ratings — published 2013
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 15,822 ratings — published 2008
The Designing for Growth Field Book: A Step-by-Step Project Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 151 ratings — published 2013
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,519 ratings — published 2012
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,868 ratings — published 2003
Human Centered Design Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.16 — 200 ratings — published 2011
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,529 ratings — published 2013
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by (shelved 12 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.08 — 98 ratings — published 2015
Service Design: From Insight to Implementation (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.05 — 593 ratings — published 2013
Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.88 — 200 ratings — published 1990
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.18 — 364 ratings — published 2015
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,168 ratings — published 1991
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,225 ratings — published 2011
Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 688 ratings — published 2015
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 537 ratings — published 2008
Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.80 — 450 ratings — published 2001
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,210 ratings — published 2007
How Designers Think (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.70 — 252 ratings — published 1980
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want
by (shelved 9 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,127 ratings — published 2013
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 360,778 ratings — published 2011
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,075 ratings — published 2008
Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 4.06 — 466 ratings — published 2009
Design Thinking at Work: How Innovative Organizations are Embracing Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as design-thinking)
avg rating 3.65 — 54 ratings — published
“Many people lie to hide the truth, to pull a blindfold over your eyes. The creative person’s goal is to lift the blindfold and reveal truths either about our inner world of thoughts and emotions or the outer world.”
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
― Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“For me to hear the words I want to share, I need to feel the natural world nearby. I had underestimated how important this was. As you read, know that every page was crafted with a tree, a boulder, or the sea in sight.”
― The Creative Wellbeing Handbook: How to fuel creativity, find balance and stay inspired
― The Creative Wellbeing Handbook: How to fuel creativity, find balance and stay inspired












