Book: 4’KD Design-Journeying
Through Design Thinking and Processing Output
Author: Kavita Jhala
Publisher:
Self Published
Balancing creativity and logic have always
been one problem that has flummoxed designers.
4’KD Design by Kavita Jhala is a short guide on how to
use effective design thinking. Designing is a process that is used to identify
problems and propose effective solutions, but more often than not, products
fail to fulfill their designed objectives. The only way to correct this is to
Rethink your design and this is precisely what this book does. This book gets you into the
flow of the design process enabling you to create your pathway.
The book is divided into 10 chapters that
begin from the basics of design and take you through the entire process of how
the brain works, balancing logic and creativity, how to incorporate design
thinking, what constitutes a good design and how to make it work. After understanding
the process of designing and the art behind balancing logic and creativity, we
move on to a critical aspect, which is understanding what is to be done, and
the author recommends a design checklist, which leads to establishment of good
design practices, which are detailed in the book and one can understand them
quite easily. Kavita also gives the reader a roadmap which one can follow to
ensure good design practices and maintain a healthy balance between concept and
actualization. Once the process is done, the author emphasizes that reflection
on your design is important by means of feedback through various means to
ensure learning and improvement of one’s own process. In the end, Kavita has
given some tools that can be used for implementing the concepts explained in
the book as well as some good recommendations for readings on the subject.
Overall, it is a short but an effective read
on design thinking and I would recommend it to everyone. Its just not about
design, its about a process and how you create ideas, concepts and products
that work, and in that context, it is relevant to everyone, be it a student, a manager
or an artist or a creator.
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