The making of a design thinker/ Forget design thinking ….hybrid thinking
First impression of Tim’s article was organized. His writing style made him more like engineer. When I graduated from LWTC, I considered myself as a design tool operator. Some people hate to be called as an operator, but I wasn’t designer. I just had some skills on processes of design with CAD, SolidWorks, and CATIA V5. Since I work for Boeing, the company trained me more organized person, because I have working in air-plain’s system group yet I couldn’t said that I’m technical designer whenever people asked me what I’m doing for company. Now, I still in different systems group, and I’m learning engineering stuff. After 10 years of work experience, I might consider myself as a mechanical designer.
Design is not always has to be innovation. Like a re-make movie, re-design could be more practical and useful. That’s why I like the ‘hybrid thinking’ concept and it sounds like brand new, but it is not.
I agree with Dev, in paragraph seven, he said that hybrid thinking is multidisciplinary people. I remember one video that Ken brown showed me at the class was about gathering design concepts of shopping cart. In the video, there were several people from different fields and they gathered all design concepts to re-design a shopping cart. Hybrid Thinking is closer to general science because it is multidirectional study.
The author describes hybrid thinking as “the conscious blending of different fields of thought to discover and develop opportunities that were previously unseen by the status quo.” Dev explained what is the key of Claudia’s succeed is her lack of experience as a designer didn’t make her a weaker proponent of design, it made her a stronger one.
I think both articles have good motivation of thinking like a designer. Claudia wasn’t designer, but she was expert on her filed and she was professional career woman. Even if she works in different filed, she knew what she needs to do and what she wants.
I have nerver thought about “Thinking like a designer” before, but it would be a great challenging.
