The Five Steps To A Solution

Design Thinking encompasses five steps that all come back to solving the user’s problems:

• Empathize. In order to design with a user focus, product designers first conduct research to learn about who they are designing for.
• Define. Based on users’ needs and insights, the designer will clearly define the problem.
• Ideate. Defining potential creative solutions.
• Prototype. Using the solutions from the ideation phase a prototype (or multiple prototypes) will be built for testing.
• Test. Designers refer back to the users to make sure their designs are working the way that they had planned.