Design Thinking for Healthcare: Transliterating the Creative Problem-Solving Method Into Architectural Practice

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to define design thinking, provide insights into how it may be integrated into the healthcare design process, and provide a checklist for future implementation. Background: Design thinking is a collaborative method of inquiry that fosters innovative, team-generated solutions to complex scenarios, known as “wicked problems,” that are extraordinarily difficult to solve. It is a practical tool in the toolbox of the codesign team, which includes the client and design professionals as primary stakeholders. It is powered by team-based creativity that adaptively responds to a need for new approaches and products in an innovative and practically applicable way. The need for design thinking in healthcare is steadily increasing as the healthcare system and its care environments continue to grow in complexity. Although major medical breakthroughs have undeniably expanded the average human life span, the current healthcare system is inefficient. Now, more than ever, design thinking and the innovative, human-centered solutions it enables are needed within healthcare design. Although the use of design thinking as a method within the field of architecture is not new, many design teams struggle integrating it fully within the design process, particularly in healthcare. The knowledge, design method, checklists, and direction provided in this article can benefit healthcare design teams to successfully integrate the method into practice. Conclusion: If design thinking is integrated into the healthcare architectural design process with the creative problem-solving method, opportunities will arise for innovative solutions and deeper insights into problems to benefit healthcare delivery.

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“…The base of design thinking relies in the 1950's when Robert H. McKim introduced a design theory based in human needs; in other words, the theory states that design's ultimate purpose is to increase the well-being of users by satisfying their basic needs [39,40]. The main stages of design thinking are to 1) empathizing 2) defining 3) ideating 4) prototyping and 5) testing [38,41].…”

Experience in using the service design in the development of nursing services in the republic of Kazakhstan

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