ABSTRACT
The term design thinking often surfaces thoughts about the corporate world and how Fortune 500 companies have brought innovation into their plans to increase profits and shareholder value. Design thinking has a history that has emerged from various fields of study and a variety of applications. The history of design thinking seems like a series of prototype theories, models, and ideas that have been tested, refined, and retested. In the 1960s, architect, futurist, and inventor Buckminster Fuller coined the term design science, taking scientific principles and applying them to solve human problems that he believed could not be solved by politics or economics. In the early 1980s, British educator and academic Nigel Cross argued that there needed to be a new path to education to complement the traditional paths of arts and humanities versus the sciences.
