... is a teaching concept developed at the famous d.school at Stanford University in California that  enables students to develop innovative and particularly user-friendly (IT-based) products and services in multidisciplinary teams. The truly revolutionary aspect of the concept of Design Thinking is that both the three to four students in each team as well as their professors all come from different academic disciplines. Teams of computer scientists and usability experts, designers and management specialists, biologists, sociologists, and medical doctors work towards innovative solutions and the development of prototypes.     

Design Thinking Research

... wants either to find out which factors ultimately contribute to the success of design thinking processes as to develop new tools for supporting this kind of engineered and creative development of innovation for all areas of life.

• In the project "Tele-Board" we develop innovative Web-based collaboration tools to support distributed design thinking. For more information click here.
• In the project "e.valuate" we investigate decisive factors that enable teams to create innovations on the base of design thinking. For more information click here.

• In the project "Collaborative Creativity via Design Thinking" we investigate how individual and organizational factors can facilitate Design Thinking in IT development processes. For more information click here.

Publications

• Noweski Christine, Ingo Rauth, Christoph Meinel
  Design Thinking as a Meta-disciplinary Approach in Management
  Proc. 3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium, Quebec City, Canada, December 2010(to appear)
• Madeleine Kröper, Tilmann Lindberg, Christoph Meinel
  Interrelations between Motivation, Creativity and Emotions in Design Thinking Processes – An Empirical Study Based on Regulatory Focus Theory
  Proc. 1st ICDC, Kobe, Japan, November 2010(to appear)
• Lutz Gericke, Raja Gumienny, and Christoph Meinel
  Message Capturing as a Paradigm for Asynchronous Digital Whiteboard Interaction
  Proc. 6th CollaborateCom, IEEE Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2010 (to appear)
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People

• Principal Investigator
  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
• Team
  • Lutz Gericke
  • Raja Gumienny
  • Andreas Groß
  • Birgit Jobst
  • Eva Köppen
  • Tilmann Lindberg
  • Christine Noweski
  • Matthias Quasthoff
  • Holger Rhinow
  • Julia von Thienen
  • Christian Willems
• Former Members:
  • Oliver Böckmann
  • Ralf Wagner

The Design Thinking research projects of the chair of Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel are part of the

• HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program

The goal of this bilateral research program, which is funded by Hasso Plattner Trust with 16 mill. US$ and directed by Profs. Drs. Larry Leifer (Stanford University) and Christoph Meinel (HPI), is to support research which investigates, among other things, how the method of design thinking can be combined with more traditional approaches in the field of (IT-)engineering. Another objective is to find out how spatial and temporal boundaries can be overcome in the cooperation process of development and design teams whose members are dispersed across the globe. The researchers in the Design Thinking Research Program also study the interaction of team members in multidisciplinary teams and seek to determine measures that predict the success of said teams. The development and evaluation of analog and digital tools is a vital concern, as well.