Editorial and AI policy

Who writes the guides

Every guide on Design Thinker Labs is authored by Keith Li. Keith has taught Design Thinking and UX/UI Design at universities since 2014 and has been appointed to facilitate corporate design thinking workshops for Pfizer, Dr. Kong, LH Group Ltd (HKEX: 1978), and Hong Kong Science Park. The guide corpus reflects that decade of teaching and facilitation, not a general literature review.

Keith is also the founder of Allytic AI (founded 16 December 2025), the company behind Design Thinker Labs.

Author identity is also declared in machine-readable form on every guide through the schema.org/TechArticle structured data emitted with each page, linking to Keith's verified LinkedIn profile.

How AI is used in drafting

Design Thinker Labs is an AI-assisted design thinking platform, and we are equally transparent about AI's role in the guides themselves. Guides are produced through the following workflow:

• Research assistance. AI models are used to gather source material, surface counter-examples, and stress-test the argument structure of each guide.
• Drafting assistance. AI may draft initial paragraphs from Keith's outline, notes, and workshop materials. Structure, framing, worked examples, and opinions are the author's.
• Human review before publication. Every guide is read end-to-end by Keith before shipping. Passages that do not reflect first-hand teaching experience are rewritten or removed.
• Voice and style guardrails. The house style rejects filler paragraphs, generic "conclusion" boilerplate, and the stylistic tics that mark unedited AI text. Each guide is required to close with a conclusion unique to the guide's argument.

This position follows Google Search's guidance that AI-assisted content is acceptable when it demonstrates expertise and is disclosed where readers would reasonably want to know. We think readers on an AI-assisted design thinking site would reasonably want to know, so we are telling you.

Sources and citations

When a guide references a specific external study, book, framework, or public dataset, we link to it inline or list it in a "Sources" section at the end of the guide.

Some guides include illustrative numeric examples — patterns like "5 of 6 interviewees said X" — to show what a research signal typically looks like rather than to cite a specific study. We are progressively labelling these as illustrative to remove any ambiguity.

Publication and freshness

Each guide displays a visible publish date, and an "Updated" date when the content has been revised since publication. Both dates also appear in the article's structured data. We do not backdate revisions or manufacture freshness signals.

Corrections

If you find a factual error in a guide, please email support@designthinkerlabs.com. Substantive corrections trigger a bump of the guide's dateModified and, when the change is material, a note in the guide's revision history in our public changelog.

Typo-level fixes are made silently.

Independence and conflicts of interest

Design Thinker Labs is a self-funded product. We do not accept payment, affiliate commission, or sponsored placement in exchange for coverage in a guide. When a guide mentions a specific tool, it is because Keith uses or teaches with it, not because we were paid to include it.

Guides may link to our own product where the platform genuinely applies the technique the guide is teaching. Those links are not disguised as neutral recommendations.

Contact

For editorial questions, corrections, or research collaborations, email support@designthinkerlabs.com. For broader inquiries, see the contact page.