Design Thinking Research

Christoph Meinel is head of the Department of Internet Technologies and Systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI), Potsdam, Germany, where he previously served as Director and CEO. A former Dean and Vice Dean of the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam, he currently teaches at the HPI School of Design Thinking and at HPI Internet Technologies and Systems. Meinel is an honorary professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at Beijing University of Technology, guest professor at Shanghai University and concurrent professor at Nanjing University. He is a member of acatech, the German “National Academy of Science and Engineering,” and numerous scientific committees and supervisory boards. Together with Larry Leifer, he was program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 to 2022.Larry Leifer is a former professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, CA, USA. Dr. Leifer’s engineering design thinking research is focused on helping design teams to understand, support, and improve design practice and theory. Specific issues include: design-team research methodologies, global team dynamics, innovation leadership, interaction design, design-for-wellbeing, and adaptive mechatronic systems. Leifer has launched various design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR). Together with Christoph Meinel, he was program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program from 2008 to 2022.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Decades of Alumni – Perspectives on the Impact of Project-Based Learning on Career Pathways and Implications for Design Education.- Part 1:  Application of Design Thinking to Governance and Social Causes.- Chapter 3. Predicting Creativity and Innovation in Society: The Importance of Places, the Importance of Governance.- Chapter 4. An Exploration of Agile Governance in Rwandan Public Service Delivery.- Chapter 5. Voices from the Field: How Designers and Educators Use Design Thinking to Address Sustainability Issues.- Part 2: Prototyping.- Chapter 6. User Perceptions of Privacy Interfaces in the Workplace.- Chapter 7. Assisting Learning and Insight in Design Using Embodied Conversational Agents.- Chapter 8. How to Tame an Unpredictable Emergence? Design Strategies for a Live-Programming System.- Part 3:  Enhancement through Design Thinking.- Chapter 9. What is Design Thinking.- Chapter 10. NeuroDesign: Greater than theSum of its Parts.- Chapter 11. A Neuroscience Approach to Women Entrepreneurs’ Pitch Performance: Impact of Inter-brain Synchrony on Investment Decisions.- Chapter 12. Priming Activity to Increase Interpersonal Closeness, Inter-brain Coherence, and Team Creativity Outcome.- Chapter 13. Design the Future with Emotion: Crucial Cultural Perspectives.- Part 4:  Design Thinking Best Practices and Strategy.- Chapter 14. Opportunities and Limitations of Design Thinking as Strategic Approach for Navigating Digital Transformation in Organizations.- Chapter 15. Designing Innovation in the Digital Age: How to Maneuver Around Digital Transformation Traps.- Chapter 16. Facets of Hybrid Education.- Chapter 17. Design Thinking Transfer Gap:  Differences between Knowledge and Application of Design Thinking in the Organizational Environment.- Chapter 18. A Genealogy of Designing as Performance.