A way of thinking.
Design thinking is often described as a recent methodology associated with collaborative workshops and Post-it notes. Its foundations, however, extend across science, philosophy, mechanical engineering, architecture, computer simulation, integrative thinking, systems thinking, artificial intelligence and human cognition.
Thinkers including Buckminster Fuller, Bill Moggridge, Bruce Archer, Robert McKim, Herbert Simon, Nigel Cross, Jane Fulton Suri, Peter Rowe, Graham Douglas and Rolf Faste contributed to its development. In the 1960s, Herbert Simon characterised design not simply as a physical process, but as a way of thinking.