The Double Diamond shapes were created by Béla H. Bánáthy and Nigel Cross in 1996. Béla and Nigel are design educators who studied systems design. The Design Council’s fr… See more

The Double Diamond design process traditionally has four steps: discover, define, develop, and deliver. The model looks like two kites put together, giving it a diamond lo… See more

The advantages of the Double Diamond design process are that it helps generate creative thinking and gives a name and structure to the frameworks and methods used in sol… See more

So far, our definition of the Double Diamond barely touches on how we use it within a design process to facilitate design thinking. Each phase employs additional activities, fr… See more

Another grave misconception about the Double Diamond is that it makes convergent and divergent thinking mutually exclusive. Divergent thinking creates space for explorat… See more