Design thinking
A solutions architect has the primary role of system design, which makes design thinking an essential skill. Design thinking is one of the most successful approaches adopted across industries to solve challenging and unclear problems. Design thinking helps you to look at problems and solutions from a different perspective, which you might have yet to consider in the first instance. Design thinking focuses more on delivering results by providing a solution-based approach to solving a problem. It helps to question the problem, solution, and associated risk to develop the most optimized strategy.
Design thinking helps you redefine problems in a more human-centric way by putting yourself in the place of end users and customers. The following diagram illustrates the primary principles of design thinking:
Figure 17.2: Principles of design thinking
The following points are some design-thinking principles:
- Experiment often: Create a prototype to...
