Industrial Designer between “Design thinking , Scientific thinking & creative thinking “.

TIM BROWN, Executive chair of IDEO” https://designthinking.ideo.com/” defines Design thinking as a human-centered approach to innovation that comes from the designer’s skills to make an integration between the needs of people, technology, and the requirements for business success.

Studies refer to Design Thinking by explaining the design process. In which we start with a research and discovery phase, analysis& exploration, followed by problem definition, ideation, prototyping to test our assumption “our new design in that case” allowing for the development or furthermore discoveries and analysis to have more new Ideas by another round of observation, and so on.



Scientific thinking starts by making observations, which are at that point formulated into testable assumptions/ hypotheses. At that point, one can collect data to either prove or modify those initial assumptions/ hypotheses, At the end, allowing for the development of furthermore complex theories, followed by another round of observation, and so on.



From the previous we can connect design thinking with scientific thinking but, as designers we feel the core of design is different, this is where creative thinking shines, a glimpse of art prevails to add the fingerprint of the designer



Research Problem:

This literature analysis-based research aims to figure out the importance of mixed thinking skills to add personality to industrial designers’ innovations through answering the following question:

What are the thinking skills needed to be mastered by industrial designers??



Research aim:

The aim of this research is to highlight the importance of mastering different thinking skills for industrial Designers