Putting the Design Back in Architectural Design
summary
Argues that design thinking is a repeatable way to become consciously competent rather than a recipe, elevating empathy as the priority and mapping it to concrete dev practices: test-driven development as empathizing with API consumers, Tao user-journey tests to script UIs, pair programming to force cross‑framework thinking. Presents the five stages: empathy, define, ideate, prototype, test, and shows a working prototype workflow — building a simple HTML slide engine (UL → OL → sections) as an example of iterating until a solution works.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:55Design thinking vs implementation
- 9:05Design thinking fundamentals
- 19:01Five stages of design thinking
- 26:12Apple and design principles
- 33:05Empathy in software design
- 41:15Ideation and brainstorming
- 46:16Prototyping and externalizing ideas
- 51:37Testing and user feedback
- 58:23Conclusion and takeaways
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