Session 12 Design Thinking

Human centered –  people don’t know what they need, the goal is helping people to articulate the latent needs they may not even know they have.

Observation – what is they don’t do or don’t say?

Empathy: standing in the shoes of others (Brown, 2009)

Prototyping: coming up with a design to look at and comment on.

Video to develop design thinking a course in design thinking from Stanford University. 

 It is available for anyone to complete at http://dschool.stanford.edu

  

Design thinking is never having the final answer or completely content. It is about being a being uncomfortable about what is being done, so change can be change! Design thinking never ends. 

Human Centered, Bias towards towards action, radical collaboration, culture of prototyping, show don’t tell, mindful of process.

Dschool methodology:

Empathize – Define – Ideate-Prototype-Test

Four principles to design thinking:

1.      Human rule- all design activity is ultimately social in nature

2.      Ambiguity rule design thinkers must preserve ambiguity

3.      Re-design rule all design is re-design

4.      Tangibility rule – making ideas tangible always facilitates communication