Design Thinking and Agile : Is it Same or Different ?

What’s design thinking?

• Design thinking is the methodology where your end user or your customer centric solution..Before starting the work you will interact with users take their feedback. Continuous research on the end users and find the best solution for the problem.

• Standard Definition: Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s (end users) needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity...

Myth: Common mistake is peoples are thinking how the design looks like and how it feels to the end user but design thinking is nowhere related with “ looks and feel”.

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How’s agile fit with Design thinking?

• In Design thinking, you have done the interaction, analysis, and research and with the end user. Now time to put all your analysis and research on board to find the best solution for the problem. Here you can use the agile methodology.
• Using agile you can put all the problems on board, do the interaction, decide the solution and technology and start the work on the problem.
• After every iteration take the feedback from end users ( the customer).
• Evaluate, learn. Design and Innovate.

Conclusion: Design thinking is the methodology to interact with end users and define the problems that end user faced. Agile is the methodology to work fast on the problem and find the solution and take continuous feedback from the customer to reach the end user goal.

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