‘Design Thinking’: The Emperor’s New Suit

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“…The starting point of the dataset is how Korean companies implement design thinking and what role designers will play now and in the future. Moreover, this coincides with the current global need for academia to cooperate with industry in developing knowledge and skills that are more readily available and applicable [38].…”

“…The analysis focuses on the differences in the networks and graphs pertaining to participants from big companies and SMEs. These differences and their dynamics over time would shed light on the reasons for the minority role of design and creativity in the latter companies from the South Korean perspective, as outlined in the Introduction of DTRS12 [38]. Furthermore, they offer new avenues for intervention to address these and related issues.…”

“…The most common methods of natural interaction are gesture, eye-movement, and voice interactions [37]. Here, we focused mainly on the information exchange through language [8] that occurs between participants of design seminars in a company context [38].…”

“…The in situ data of the dataset comprise recorded transcripts of two seminars (workshops) with high-ranking managers and company employees. The workshops were organized with participants from five Korean companies, ranging from conglomerate (chaebol) to mediumsized companies [38]. The first seminar involved representatives from four companies, including a conglomerate, two smaller companies, and a marketing consultancy.…”

“…In both seminars, participants were aided by the same large card set, in which each card depicted a distinct activity or aspect of the design process. Each participant was asked to select a subset of cards from the large card set that best matched the stages of their own design process and explain their ongoing design thinking with the help of the given cards [38]. The verbal reports obtained were both personal reflections on the design-thinking process and a chronological mental replay of the stages of the design process.…”