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Design practices in Design thinking /1 Design practices in Design thinking Lucy Kimbell Sa d Business School University of Oxford Park End Street Oxford OX1 1HP Abstract Interest in Design is growing among organization and management scholars, educators, practitioners and government bodies. Research often rests on Simon s (1969) distinction between Design and the social sciences but it is not clear how this account of Design relates to professional non-management Design practice. Meanwhile some practitioners, scholars and educators claim that Design thinking , generalised across the work of professional designers, can and should be adopted by managers. These accounts often describe what designers do and say, focusing on individual action rather than situating such activity within a larger context in which different kinds of Design professional go about designing and in which end-users play roles in constituting designs.

Design practices in design thinking/4 a new analytical device for discussing design based in theories of practice, which conceives of design activity as linking both what designers do …

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