...Jeremy Bernier; Elisabeth R. Gee; Yuchan (Blanche) Gao; Luis E. Pérez Cortés; Taylor M. Kessner Purpose The purpose of this paper reporting an exploratory pilot study is to examine how participant engagement in design thinking varies when playing and fixing (playfixing) three partially complete...

...Taylor M. Kessner; Priyanka Parekh; Earl Aguliera; Luis E. Pérez Cortés; Kelly M. Tran; Sinem Siyahhan; Elisabeth R. Gee Purpose This paper aims to explore how making tabletop board games elicited adolescents’ design thinking during their participation in a summer game design camp at their local...

... the consideration of equity at its core. The “DESIGN-ED Toolkit” adopts and adapts a contemporary, effective and rapidly iterative design process from industry known as design thinking. Research limitations/implications The core components of this this process (empathy, definition, ideation, prototype and test...

...Natalia Nakano; Joao Augusto Dias Barreira e Oliveira; Maria José Vicentini Jorente Purpose This paper aims to present an overview of the design thinking (DT) methodology applied to information science research focusing on the user journey. DT stages are essential to understand, create...