Design Thinking Simulator

Design thinking moves through four stages — empathize, define, ideate, and prototype & test — cycling between divergent thinking (generating many possibilities) and convergent thinking (narrowing them down). This simulator visualizes that rhythm directly: user personas light up during empathy research, a problem ring pulses as the challenge gets defined, idea particles burst outward from the core during ideation, and during prototype & test those surviving ideas get pulled back toward a central prototype and scored — the strongest join a golden ring of validated ideas while the rest fade away. Adjust brainstorm rate, convergence strength and cycle speed to see how each reshapes the balance between divergence and convergence.