Design Thinking

Guide any team through the Design Thinking methodology — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, and implement. Core audiences: product & design teams (product designers, UX researchers, UI designers, service designers, product managers), entrepreneurs & startups (idea validation, customer discovery, lean prototyping), and business & strategy leaders (innovation workshops, service redesign, customer journey mapping, business model innovation). Trigger on: design sprint, HMW question, how might we, empathy map, affinity diagram, point of view statement, design brief, user journey, service b

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add rastian/design-thinking-skills --skill design-thinking

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rastian/design-thinking-skills.git /tmp/design-thinking-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/design-thinking-skills/. ~/.claude/skills/design-thinking

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Design Thinking

A practical guide to the Design Thinking methodology for product designers, UX researchers,
UI designers, service designers, product managers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders.
This skill helps you move through human-centered design work with rigor — from understanding
real people to shipping solutions that reach them.

## What This Skill Covers

- Running or planning any phase of a Design Thinking process
- Generating and evaluating design artifacts (empathy maps, HMW questions, POV statements,
  prototype briefs, usability test plans, service blueprints)
- Adapting the methodology to your role and context (new product, existing product, service, startup, innovation workshop)
- Facilitating cross-functional collaboration with shared language
- Avoiding the methodology errors that produce poor — or irrelevant — outcomes

## How to Use This Skill

Tell Claude what phase you are in and what you need. Examples:

- "I need to plan empathy interviews for a mobile banking redesign"
- "Here are my research findings — help me synthesize into a problem statement"
- "We're about to ideate — what methods work best for a 90-minute remote session?"
- "I'm a founder — how do I validate my idea before I build anything?"
- "We're running a strategy workshop on service redesign — where do we start?"

If you are unsure which phase you are in, describe your situation and Claude will orient you.

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## The Design Thinking Framework

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: design-thinking
Repository: rastian/design-thinking-skills
Repo updated: 31 August 2026

FAQ

What does the Design Thinking skill do?

How do I install the Design Thinking skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add rastian/design-thinking-skills --skill design-thinking. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Design Thinking popular?

It lives in rastian/design-thinking-skills, which has 18 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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