I just had a chance to review the webinar From "Design Thinking" to Design Knowing put on by the Blended Librarians Online Community and presented by Rachel Ivy Clarke. Clarke is a newly minted PhD from the University of Washington's iSchool. I really appreciated her thesis for the video, which was to say that librarianship is really a design discipline, rather than a science. I have to agree that my experience with librarianship confirms exactly what Clarke is saying. Instead of following the scientific method, I have often drawn connections back to the Instructional Design model of ADDIE, or the Design Thinking model. In fact, this video helped me to better conceptualize the theme of this blog as more of a design blog than an "ideas" blog. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The actual video starts at 8 minutes.
In the chat during this webinar, a participant shared the following link to an agenda from an ALA preconference that she attended. This is a great breakdown of how the design process works, and I plan on researching some of the stages further. Of particular interest to me are Value Propositions and Empathy Maps. I have heard of many of the other stages and tools in the past, but these were news to me.
As I continue to think critically about design in librarianship, it is exciting for me to see others doing the same.
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