Both articles make very good arguments. When I started reading The Making of a Design Thinker by Tim Brown the first sentence really caught my attention when he said that “it took me a long time before I realized the difference between being a designer and thinking like one.” I really agreed with this quote because I had this same feeling when I graduated from school. I didn’t have any real world experience yet but I was considered a designer. Once I started working in the field I soon realized I have the tools to be a designer and now I need to start thinking like one. To think like a designer you have to have experience and knowledge of what you are designing. I really like how this article explains how design has moved to the next level and that now design doesn’t just refer to structural objects but a more broad approach that everything can be designed. This shows how important design really is in the everyday life. I feel that today we have embraced this idea of design thinking so much that now every day designers are exploring new possibilities and new exciting innovations for the future.
In the article Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking also makes a very good point that people can do what she did by “immersing herself in design thinking and then merging it with her experiences in account thinking, market thinking and several more.” I feel that merging your experiences and design thinking into one will help make innovations come out easier. I believe that this is very important because many people are designers but they also have other likes, dislikes and different experiences in life than other individuals who will make a diverse design them. “Learning new ways to think isn’t very helpful if you forget what you already know” is a powerful quote that expresses how important past experience is to design.
Both these articles are different in explaining a way to achieve design thinking. The first article explains more about how design thinking can be achieved by thinking and doing but the second article explains how with design thinking past experiences can help evolve design to a new level. I feel that both articles are important to realize the highest thinking level of design.
