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Essential Books

Robert McKim mentions design as a science or way of thinking

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Computer scientist and Nobel Prize laureate Herbert A. Simon was the first to mention design as a science or way of thinking in his 1969 book, Sciences of the Artificial. The notion also appeared in Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert H. McKim's 1973 book, Experiences in Visual Thinking. Robert H. McKim, best described as an artist and eng…

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Bruce Archer offers humanities, science and design as being equal points of a triad of disciplines

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Design Thinking : Understand, Improve, Apply by Plattner, Meinel and Leifer

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Design Thinking in Action (DTIA)

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The Design Thinking Toolbox by Lewrick, Link and Leifer

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2nd Design Thinking Summit (Luxatia)

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Bernard Roth - d.school design thinking model

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