Design Thinking Process Model Review

The presented research provides an overview of thirty-five analyzed process models in the field of Design Thinking for application in a practical environment. The overall objective is a comparison of Design Thinking process models according to a number of process steps and their specific terminology. The structure of the paper is as follows: First, an introduction helps the readers to become involved in the topic. Second the methodology of the systematic literature review and the focus of this paper are explained. Afterwards, the results of the literature review are presented. Then in the next step the key findings are discussed. The paper concludes with a summary of the main findings and provides an outlook of future research tasks.