Critical thinking as a Design tool
Inspired by the book “How to Think more Effectively — A guide to greater productivity, insight, and creativity”, I started to think about my own way of processing and analyzing information in life as well as in my design process.
In fact, I’ve never stopped before to think about my own thinking process before I came across this book (weird isn’t it?). I didn’t believe that ideas came to me by luck but what I didn’t think about before is that I could still optimise my thinking process, reframing it as I needed to.
One of the chapters that particularly caught my attention talked about Sceptical thinking, where I found this interesting piece:
Part of thinking effectively is knowing, at one level, the likelihood that we might not be thinking well and so proceeding with humility and an appreciation of our mind’s characteristic tricks’. — “How to Think more Effectively (p. 133)”
This made me read more about different types of thinking and how that could help me find a way to improve my design thinking process. By improving our thinking skills we can work on having better ideas, solve problems more effectively, make better decisions, structure information…
