Design Thinking can and should be taught

Design thinking is still seen as something that can't be explicitly learned. Common belief amongst designers is that you have to throw yourself into the mess of the problem with the hope that over time you will get better at it.

Surely you can learn it by doing it, but you can also speed up the learning if you have a clear idea of what it takes in terms of process, people, attitudes, values, etc.

Look what happened with entrepreneurship. People thought it was a black box that you could only learn by being in many start ups, and here comes Steve Blank and demystifies the whole discipline, and Eric Ries popularizes it.

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