design thinking

Constraints

• Limitations or obstacles in your challenge.

• When you identify your materials, constraints, and how you will be successful.

• A process for creative problem solving that is human-centered.

• When you self-reflect on your experiences with the problem or challenge.

Define

• When you brainstorm ideas, get feedback, create an initial design, share the design, and iterate.

• When you identify your materials, constraints, and how you will be successful.

• To rapidly change.

• When you create a 3-D model of your design.

Design Thinking

• A process for creative problem solving that is human-centered.

• The process for creating and sharing ideas where yo use images and sketches instead of words to describe your idea.

• When you put the prototype into action, get feedback, identify successes, and iterate.

• Limitations or obstacles in your challenge.

Empathize

• When you identify your materials, constraints, and how you will be successful.

• A process for creative problem solving that is human-centered.

• When you self-reflect on your experiences with the problem or challenge.

• When you brainstorm ideas, get feedback, create an initial design, share the design, and iterate.

Iterate

• To rapidly change.

• When you brainstorm ideas, get feedback, create an initial design, share the design, and iterate.

• The process for creating and sharing ideas where you use images and sketches instead of words to describe your idea.

• When you brainstorm ideas, get feedback, create an initial design, share the design, and iterate.

Which mindset does NOT fit with design thinking?

• There is only one real solution.

• Learn from failure.

• Empathy.

• Make your ideas tangible.

The phases of Design Thinking are generally in the following order:

• Define, ideate, prototype, empathize, test

• Ideate, define, empathize, prototype, test

• Empathize, define, ideate, prototype test

• Empathize, ideate, define, prototype, test

An iteration usually takes...

• one day

• a week

• two weeks

• As long/short as you do it.

At the end of the design thinking cycle it makes sense to:

• Focus on improving your prototype.

• Leave the target audience alone.

• Generate lots of ideas.

• No more testing.

With design thinking...

• the designer is central

• the product is central

• the process is central

• the end user is central