Design thinking is a process of designing a creative and practical solution to issues. It is a style of thinking that advocates out-of-the-box thinking and emphasizes on creative designs for a possible new-age future result and translating them into actions to solve problems and discover new opportunities. Designers contextualize issues with empathy, generate insights and solutions with creativity, and analyze such possible solutions with rationality.

The concept of design is inherent in design thinking as design thinking requires key elements made possible through the generation of creative designs such as defining a problem, design researching, ideating, coming up with prototype designs for solutions, and choosing the best possible solutions for the issues. Hence, the process of designing and the work of designers are significant in design thinking. Any profession can reap the benefits of design thinking.