Introduction
Yvonne Eriksson
1. Design Thinking between Myth and Methodology
Petra Badke-Schaub
2. Critical Design and Design Thinking vs. critical design and design thinking
Gabriela Goldschmidt
3. Adding Rigor to Advance Design Thinking
Andrew Dillon and Marian Sweeney
4. Situated Design Thinking
Åsa Wikberg Nilsson
5. The Challenge of Designing Meaningful Information
Yvonne Eriksson and Anna-Lena Carlsson
6. Gendered Design Thinking—So-called Logic of People and Things
Åsa Wikberg Nilsson and Yvonne Eriksson
7. On Design Dialogues—Their Roots, Features, and Usage
Ulrika Florin
8. Design Thinking and Designerly Ways of Knowing in Operational Research Practice
Christina J Phillips
9. Design Thinking and Welfare Technology: A Focus on Information Design
Riika Saurio, Lea Hennala, Satu Pekkarinen and Helinä Melkas
10. Raising Users’ Confidence in their own Technology Literacy as part of the Design Process
Marie Sjölinder
11. Lessons Learned: A Plea for Curricularizing Design Thinking in Engineering Education
Anne Wallisch and Kristin Paetzold
Biography
Yvonne Eriksson obtained a PhD in Art History. Since 2009 she has held the chair in Information Design at Mälardalen University, Sweden, and is also a Professor and Vice Dean at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering. She is also a member of the drafting committee for Social Science and Humanities at the Swedish Research Council, and chair of the drafting committee of the post-doctoral program for Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In addition, she is on the Design Society Advisory Board and is co-chair of the Special Interest Group, Human Behaviour in Design. To her credit, Yvonne has edited three books and written several books about visual communication, besides numerous articles.
