Background
If you are working in the customer experience space, you probably have not escaped hearing the term "design thinking" multiple times. What is design thinking? And why is it so popular? Simply put: design thinking revolves around a deep interest in developing an understanding of the people for whom we are designing the products or services. A large part of design thinking is research by its very nature, in that it involves understanding the consumer and/or user's problems, attitudes and beliefs. Design thinking embraces exactly what good research should always have done, although of course, research has often fallen...