“It’s a five-step process for improving the design, making it ultimately easier ... SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is keen on reducing engineering to its basics via first principles thinking.

Bernard Roth is a professor of engineering at Stanford and ... called "The Designer in Society." Design thinking is a five-step process: 1. Empathize: Learn what the issues are.

This three-credit course in the School of Engineering exposes students to concepts and techniques for design. The class discusses the fundamental concepts and activities of design processes and ...