alt Hacker NewsNot sure what your definition of 'Design Thinking' is.
Design Thinking isn't about people thinking "that they can just come in and design user interfaces, etc. without really having an expertise in the particular field."
It's a problem solving approach using UCD methods amongst others and working with experts in the field to come up with solutions and ideas to a given problem space.
Key thing is you work with the people who are experts in the field, for example working with medical experts to design a new health related application etc.
It is the practice that matters, which is the "designers" trying to elevate their position to something more special by inserting their special rules into the design process, often at the expense of other people involved, including the experts.
"Working with the experts" always turns into weird formalized brainstorming sessions or other rituals, where the designer defines the process and the rules, and others' role is just to be little players in the game, but not the referee.
This is nothing new. We have seen the same thing with PMs and "scrum masters" inserting themselves into the software development process with shit like Agile, Scrum, etc.
If design thinking is just a problem solving approach, experts and practitioners in the field are perfectly capable of doing that. We don't need the shamans of Design Thinking to guide the process.