{"id":917,"date":"2012-06-08T20:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/leadership_tools\/readinglist\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:41:20","slug":"design-thinking-isnt-a-miracle-cure-but-heres-how-it-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2012\/06\/design-thinking-isnt-a-miracle-cure-but-heres-how-it-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Thinking Isn&#8217;t a Miracle Cure, but Here&#8217;s How It Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dt15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-929 alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dt15.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With that helpful and perhaps needed disclaimer out of the way, writer\/designer\/consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/helenwalters\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Waters<\/a> pens a lengthy and thought-provoking dissection of what design thinking isn&#8217;t, what it can&#8217;t do, clues to why it has been at times oversold&#8230;and why it is still <em>well <\/em>worth considering the real value it provides. And why designers may have long since learned to walk in the opposite direction when some folk use the word. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note: if you are Very Busy Executive, you may instead (also) want to have a look at another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1663192\/the-seven-deadly-sins-that-choke-out-innovation\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> of Waters that is longer on brevity, as it were.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1663480\/design-thinking-isnt-a-miracle-cure-but-heres-how-it-helps\">&#8220;Design Thinking&#8221; Isn&#8217;t a Miracle Cure, but Here&#8217;s How It Helps<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With that helpful and perhaps needed disclaimer out of the way, writer\/designer\/consultant Helen Waters pens a lengthy and thought-provoking dissection of what design thinking isn&#8217;t, what it can&#8217;t do, clues to why it has been at times oversold&#8230;and why it is still well worth considering the real value it provides. And why designers may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[171,297,169],"coauthors":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-design","8":"tag-design-thinking","9":"tag-innovation","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}