Uhh… What does Design Thinking have to do with UX? Sure, it could be used to come up with novel ideas for user interfaces but DT (nowadays) is an approach that's several orders of magnitude more general.

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layer8 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The fact that it’s mostly being pushed by UX people.

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bsoles 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure. Let me then call it this way: "Design Thinking is the Data Science of design: an attempt to gain influence in fields that you don't have expertise in."

	▲	IOT_Apprentice 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’d retort that software developers aren’t domain experts either. At the end of the day you either luck out if domain experts and actual users are involved in eliminating toil (in the sense that Google defines that) and optimizing the user experience, while reducing friction in applications and providing insights into data.