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9 Design Thinking tools to try with your team

From heavy hitters like Apple, Google, and IBM to growing startups, everyone seems to be implementing design thinking to drive innovation and results. But how?

Design thinking isn’t just a session where everyone gets together in a room and thinks really hard about design solutions. It’s actually an iterative process made up of five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. And with each phase comes important tools and apps to help you succeed.

Here are some of our favorite design thinking tools, broken up by phase:

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Rob Cowie

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