As the centerpiece of DT, this diagram is generally referred to as the “design thinking process”.

This revised “desirable, viable, feasible diagram” (v2) illustrates that our design work must increasingly consider solutions that are healthy, equitable, and sustainable.

Before starting with empathy — indeed to figure out who we might learn from and who we might design for — we must first orient to and frame our project in a design-thinking-style way.