Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes?
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Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes, asks John Thackara, referring to “Why the d.school has its limits,” a provocative article in The Stanford Daily by Danny Buerkli, a Swiss Fulbright student at Stanford University:
“Like any method, design thinking structures how you approach and conceptualize a problem. The way the method is currently taught, however, preordains the result.
The answer to any problem unfailingly is a product or a service. Some problems are indeed best solved with a product or a service. Yet other problems need systemic solutions (e.g. political action).”