What's concretely the designer's mental model?

1. What is designer mental model?
2. What is the mental model approach?
3. Is design thinking a mental model?

What is designer mental model?

Mental models include your basic ideas of what something is or how it is supposed to work. Designers frequently research to identify users' mental models and apply these findings into the design framework, in order to build on top of the users' existing expectations and beliefs.

What is the mental model approach?

A mental model approach to cognition goes beyond stakeholders' preferences, goals, and values associated with a given resource, to provide a rich picture of how stakeholders perceive natural resource systems to function.

Is design thinking a mental model?

Design thinking – a new mental model of value innovation.