Epilog: From Requirements Engineering to Design Thinking

Abstract

Design Thinking has been initially created as a method offering cognitive, strategical, and practical processes to develop design concepts for products, buildings, machines, and communications. Initially, Design Thinking was created with emphasis on the physical world. However, nowadays, systems and system designs, including services and all kinds of complex, distributed cyber-physical systems, gain their creative power and their innovation to a large extent from the abilities and possibilities of advanced software, including dedicated user interfaces, data analytics, and service engineering also based on concepts of artificial intelligence. As a result, the amount and possibilities of innovation are determined to a large extend by software and by the close interaction between software and the physical world.