Design Thinking
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
How I Built This
6 statements about Design Thinking, every show
Antin: Product design is plagued by performative design thinking rituals
“Design, it has a ton of performance and it comes from the fact that we have like figured out user-centered design, this process or design thinking, which IDEO popularized, like that's what we're supposed to do.”
Udezue: Product and business lack a unifying abstraction like Agile or Design Thinking
“So the product and business layer, what is our abstraction? What is our crucible for organizing our work? We don't even have one. We don't have a name for it. And so the idea of a part system is that there's an abstraction above agile and design thinking that …”
Kelley: Corporate America lacks patience because early answers look smart
“Patience to wait for the big idea is just not inherent. Well, it's inherent in the design kind of way of being, but it's not inherent in corporate America because you look smart if you have the answer early on.”
Kelley: Design thinking is driven by user resonance, not consensus
“No, it's not about consensus. It's about how excited you can get the people that what we call the center persona, what's going to be meaningful to them.”
Nahm: Founders should treat their startup as a product
“Hey, you know, I still work on a product. The product is this company and I still have to do user research. It's just that my users are my employees and my customers. And that same process for, you know, generating a clear strategy around user needs was just a…”
Berger: Questioning is at the core of design thinking and problem-solving
“As I started to analyze design and design thinking, I kept coming back to questioning. It always seemed like questioning was at the center of everything. It was how designers tended to think. And how they how they solve problems and how they framed a challenge…”