This episode explores the similarities and roots of three common creative processes: Design Thinking, Human Centered Design, and Creative Problem Solving.What You’ll Learn* The history of creative process* The similarities between three popular creative design processes* Why understanding these is valuable to your work as a team leader, manager, or creative team member.Resources* Episodes about Creative Problem Solving: 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008* Episode 37 with Keith Sawyer* Book: Explaining Creativity by Keith SawyerTranscriptFeel like reading instead of listening? Download the free transcript or read it below. Enjoy!Transcript for Episode #073: Understanding Creative ProcessesAmy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 73. The inspiration for this episode came from a few conversations I have had with different people, who mostly, are people who teach or think about creative processes. They have some background in Design Thinking or Creative Problem Solving. They have a little bit of depth of knowledge. But in talking with them, I realized that they did not know the big picture of how the process that they knew, whether it was Design Thinking or Human Centered Design or Creative Problem Solving, how those processes all fit together. I thought I would put together an episode to explain the similarities and differences between these three different processes because they are all very common today, they are used today, they all are excellent in different ways. I think it helps to understanding like if you are teaching something or if you are using a process, how does it fit with the bigger picture. That is what I am going to talk about in today’s episode. Before we dive into that, I would like to share a review that came in on iTunes. This is a review from Josh Edgar. Josh says:Amy brings an honest and authentic voice to creativity and leadership development. As someone who hasn’t viewed himself as creative, Amy has inspired me to view creativity and leadership as muscles that need to be developed and a process to be practiced with discipline. Thank you for helping shift that world’s mindset of creativity. That was a five star review titled “We Are All Creative”. Josh, thank you so much. I appreciate your taking the time to write a review and I am so glad to hear that the podcast is helping shift your mindset about creativity. That is what this is all about. If you are listening, I would love for you to go over to iTunes and leave a review, or to Google Play, whichever you prefer. I try to read all the reviews on future episodes to share them with everyone. I really appreciate it. It helps me know that you are listening. It helps me know what you like and it is a great way to help spread the word about the podcast. The History of Creative Process [Let’s talk about the creative processes. I am going to start with some background, some history. I am going to go way back to 1926. In 1926, Graham Wallas wrote a book called The Art of Thought. In that book, he outlined four steps for a creative process.