Tools, Books and other Resources

Design Thinking is a creative, non-linear, and highly iterative process that helps us truly understand people, question assumptions, reframe problems, and generate bold new solutions we can quickly prototype and test. It usually unfolds in five phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.

It shines when you’re facing challenges that are messy, ill-defined, or completely new—when a simple checklist or linear plan just won’t cut it.

This book borrows directly from that spirit. In fact, it follows those five steps—with one extra step added at the beginning: Accept. Because when the work is about you and your own life, the very first move is acknowledging and accepting that there’s something you want to change, explore, or grow into.

If you’d like to dive deeper into Design Thinking itself, on the right are a couple of excellent books we recommend.