Design thinking is not a one-size-fits-all approach, but rather a set of principles and tools that can be adapted and customized to any given project or context. A common way to apply design thinking to product development is to follow five stages: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. In the empathize stage, you can gain insights into users' needs, goals, pain points, emotions, and behaviors through interviews, observations, surveys, personas, and journey maps. In the define stage, you synthesize your findings and frame your challenge with problem statements, how might we questions, and value propositions. Then in the ideate stage you generate possible solutions through brainstorming, mind mapping, sketching, and SCAMPER. The prototype stage involves creating tangible representations of solutions through paper prototypes, wireframes, mockups or clickable prototypes. Finally in the test stage you measure and analyze results from user testing, interviews, surveys or analytics to identify what works and what doesn't.