DT FORENSICS

BRIEF & OBJECTIVES

PRINCIPLES & MANIFESTO

Design and develop a creative commons platform that elicits enlightened conversations, and exchanges of ideas by informed, theorists, practitioners , critics and thought leaders from business and design for the advancement of Design Thinking.

Fine-tune and expand the fundamental principles of Design Thinking.

Develop essential tools and unifying strategies that can be used in parallel by business and design.

Stabilize the structure and architecture of Design Thinking in order to allow for continuous expansion and diverse applications.

Share pertinent information with people whom can use said information to create more value for themselves and others.

Become a reference source in the Design Thinking domain based on depth and quality of insights.

Show how Design Thinking delivers quantifiable value and other clearly defined value metrics.

Establish standards and clear rules of engagement.

Maintain clear distinctions between theory and practice.

Create a participatory platform and promote clear distinctions between D-thinkers, DT- practitioners DT- critics, business strategists and design strategists

DT PRINCIPLES

1. Design Thinking is mining and extracting the essence of all key Design disciplines.

2. Is using its inherent process of thinking and solving as a conscious tool to teach how to innovate.

3. Induces and elicits cross-pollination of creativities from different disciplines with different objectives.

4. Interprets and displays data, information and knowledge generated through Integrative Thinking.

5. Designs platforms that allow for the creation of contextual clarity between left and right brain thinking. The results generate communal sense-making.

6. Calibrates the level of understanding between participants from similar or opposing disciplines.

7. Manages the creative capital of ALL disciplines under one governing intelligence.

Design Thinking Forensics traces, identifies and documents the footprints of DT applications in order to determine the scope, execution, and subsequently the value of its deliverables. One of its main objectives is to identify design-thinking processes, applications and methodologies that cannot be found, performed or attributed to any other intelligence, field or domain.

DT Forensics acts as the counterpart to ROE (Rules of Engagement).

“Creativity and Innovation result from a system comprised of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts that recognizes and validates the innovation “(M.Csikzenttmihaly)

Since DT operates across interdisciplinary platforms it is in constant competition with the deliverables from other disciplines, many of which have a great “pedigree.” DT needs to develop its own “proof of value” if it wants to have a prominent seat in the commercial sector. Because it is active in a variety of domains, it is very easy to attribute, detach, or embellish value parameters resulting from DT.

DT Forensics asks simple questions: Where can one find evidence of DT applications? How can one track this evidence? How can one prove this evidence? How can one document its finding and store the evidence? How can one determine the level of involvement, the quality of the execution? What benchmarks and metrics should reflect the new value systems?

In short:

Traces and identifies footprints of DT.
Defines the quality of the deliverables.
Determines the depths of DT application.
Calibrates the level of Mastery of DT.
Develops metrics to new value systems.

The rigid process of DT Forensics validates the results that are behind the intelligence and logic of the design mind and adds credibility to the profession. Furthermore it filters and eliminates the noise, clarifies ambiguities, and gradually contributes to the common understanding of Design Thinking.

DT Forensics forces the discipline to evaluate itself according the standards it sets for itself. It forces the discipline to develop experts in this field, who can eventually become critics, specialists or ambassadors to Design Thinking.

BRIEF & OBJECTIVES PRINCIPLES & MANIFESTO

DT PRINCIPLES

DT FORENSICS

BRIEF & OBJECTIVES

PRINCIPLES & MANIFESTO