Publication of Design Thinking Tool Handbook

About this book

"70 commonly used design tools"

"Covering 5 stages of design thinking"

"Design Professional Practical Tool Book"

The Design Thinking Tool Handbook is a reference book that includes an introduction to the usage of 70 commonly used design tools. Through this book, readers can understand design tools and the thinking patterns behind them, increase the number of candidate thinking paths, expand the width and breadth of thinking, help the smooth progress of design projects, and enhance the thinking ability of designers.

This book introduces the tools suitable for each of the five stages of design thinking: Empathy, Define, Imagination, Prototype, and Test. On this basis, taking design activities such as workshops as examples, the methods of using tool combinations were introduced.

I hope that through the introduction of tools and the thinking behind them, designers can help turn the thinking methods of predecessors into their own. Design thinking tools are the physical manifestation of design thinking - behind this form of expression, tools are the result of predecessors simplifying, facilitating, and visualizing successful thinking methods, in order to facilitate more designers and creators to learn from and solve more design problems.

But when using tools, we also need to be clear that tools cannot replace design thinking. Tools are pipelines, and thinking is the flowing content within them. The reason why design requires more inspiration than other industries is that predecessors can tell you through tools what kind of turning point their thinking has gone through, but they cannot directly convert their experience into our own. Tools can facilitate smooth process and basic output, while outstanding design requires user reflection. Tools do not provide solutions, only methods, techniques, techniques, and schedules. Do not let the design become a fill in the blank question due to the use of tools. Please be sure to maintain quick thinking, freedom and openness, and passion. The purpose of design is to solve problems in an appropriate way, rather than using tools, which is the core of this book.

This book is suitable as a reference for fields such as interaction design, service design, and industrial design, helping relevant designers inspire ideas and planning processes for design activities.

Joint recommendation

"Utilitarization is an effective means for abstract theory to play a role in practice, especially when we hope that design thinking can fully play a value creation role in large-scale enterprises or modern organizations."

——Xin Xiangyang

Founder of XXY Innovation

Distinguished Professor of Tongji University

"Reading books like 'Design Thinking Tool Handbook' gives me a clear appreciation, as it is also a good material for improving my design thinking skills. I am willing to read and practice with everyone."

——Yuan Yue

Chairman of Zero Point Youshu

"Both professionals and non professionals can search, select, and use appropriate design tools in books to solve work problems."

——Hu Xiao

Chairman of the International Experience Design Conference (IXDC)

President of Meia Design Platform (MEIA)

"In today's innovation and entrepreneurship field in China, design thinking has become the mainstream of innovation thinking and methodology. Professor Fu has been conscientiously preaching and practicing design thinking in the past ten years, and has cultivated many excellent design elites. What is more valuable is that he has compiled this book with the most essence design tools to solve practical problems. I believe that this book will effectively assist many innovators who are applying design thinking to business practice, and I highly recommend this book

——Huang Feng

Founder of Tang Shuo Experience Consulting

Co founder and Honorary Chairman of UXPA China

"Design thinking is becoming a common language among global innovators. The nearly 70 tools provided in this book revolve around the innovation process of design thinking, outlining innovation paths and providing action points, which have significant value for innovation leaders and practitioners."

——Shuilin Lin

Dean of the School of Design Thinking at Communication University of China

Author Introduction

Doctoral supervisor and associate professor appointed by the Department of Information Art and Design at the School of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. Currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Sino Italian Design Innovation Center at Tsinghua University, Director of the Tsinghua University Art and Technology Innovation Base, Secretary General of the Information and Interaction Design Committee of the China Industrial Design Association, and President of the World Chinese Overseas Chinese Human Computer Interaction Association, mainly responsible for undergraduate and graduate courses related to interaction design, service design, design thinking, and innovation and entrepreneurship. The research focuses on designing future and innovative tools, as well as humanistic city and service design. Served multiple times on the ACM SIGCHI and HCII organizing committees for international conferences.

previously worked at the School of Media at Suzhou University. In 2012, participated in the World Lab summer workshop at the University of Washington in the United States, and published design works at Microsoft Design Expo in the United States. In 2013, we jointly initiated and organized the Designow Design Innovation Workshop. Participated in the planning and organization of the Design 3.0 international conference in 2018, and participated in the organization of the Future Online International Conference in 2020. Published multiple papers at international conferences such as HCII and IASDR.