Design thinking is the core thinking method for designers to deal with problems. This method trains students to dig deep into the essence through appearances, take people as the center of thinking, and start with goals or achievements to creatively analyze and solve problems.

Design under the guidance of design thinking emphasizes going deep into daily production or life, actually entering the user group, understanding and feeling the lifestyle and needs of users, thus providing systematic basis and goals for design.

Hasso plattner School of Design of Stanford University (D.school for short) has created a concept that is closely related to design thinking. The School of Design offers many courses related to design thinking training for many majors in the school, including engineering, business and medicine. , so as to enhance students' creative ability in various professional directions.

Stanford School of Design, known as the "innovation hub", also put forward a "five-stage" model of design thinking and methods, namely empathy, definition, hypothesis, prototype and test.

The idea based on design thinking is an overall solution to the problem and a series of solutions to complex problems. This design process combines traditional design thinking mode, visual thinking and social thinking, and encourages designers to solve problems through comprehensive thinking. It can make designers change from passive and hesitant thinking mode to active and decisive thinking mode, and can effectively improve their thinking and social emotion.