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Fred Estes’ Design Thinking: A Guide to Innovation is more than a how-to manual—it’s a manifesto for young changemakers, educators, and community builders who believe that creativity and empathy can reshape the world.

Structured around a six-step process—notice and reflect, empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test—Estes distills the essence of design thinking into a format that’s accessible and actionable.

I know exactly where this book is going as soon as it's published. Having attended a PD session by our phenomenal tech teachers on this very topic, I see what they do every day in their classroom "laboratories" to explore this and I can't wait to give them one more tool.

It's an instruction manual, not a definitive guide to EXPLAINING design thinking because it shows it by providing specific examples (the alignment tool for the blind or the municipal worker who figured out the attendance at a pool was due to the bus schedule not what was assumed as an outdated facility.

This is practical and sets out to guide these innovations through a set of structures to help. So useful!