Design Thinking Clause Samples

Design Thinking. This project is all about thinking like a designer. Students work with small and large group tasks and individual research activities to dig deep into the design world. The content will cover the fields of visual design, interaction design, user experience design, and service design. Design is about problem solving, storytelling, and the application of insights to a meet a challenge. Students should aim to understand the role of the designer in the production process, the importance of optimisation for design refinement, and how to work with living, breathing projects. Having developed design thinking skills, students move to look at the digital tools that are available for them to create with. This is not a coding project, but developing an understanding of developers and how people make things digitally is crucial. This project will include some basic prototyping with digital tech, research and discussions around big data and its implications on society, and working with emerging global technologies and the impact they will have in the future. Business Strategy In a world disrupted by digital technologies, businesses need to change the way they work. This project focuses on the fundamentals of how businesses need to operate now, and how existing business models can be transformed. In a networked world it’s crucial to develop a global perspectives of business strategy. Students will think locally, regionally, and globally, to develop a broad understanding of business needs. Startup With the key foundations of design, technology, and business covered, students will apply lessons from the previous projects in a larger, more open exploration of startup culture, brand communication, and entrepreneurship. Student groups will work to develop a new business, and apply principles of brand communication to build a business that solves a real problem. Their challenge will be to generate solutions to that problem, and communicate it to the world. Work-Based Project This is the culmination of all the work you’ve done through your course. Taking the lessons you learned from the group and individual work and applying them to test ideas, challenge theories, and develop your specialist skills and knowledge. This could be as a traditional written dissertation, or through a portfolio of different things 4) Course schedule with modules and/or subjects 1. Hyper Island Way Week 7th April 2014 2. Design Thinking 21st April 2014 3. Digital Technology 26th May 2014 4. Advanced W...

Design Thinking. It will be useful to spend time looking at the philosophy of design thinking as this underpins and influences many of the approaches which will be covered in the training. For instance it would be valuable to explore the Design Council’s ‘Double Diamond,’ which has been hugely influential in design thinking. The graphic below1 shows the key phases in a design project. In the first phase (discover, define), the problem is identified, in the second (develop, deliver), solutions are found. The shift from divergent to convergent thinking in both phases is represented by the widening and narrowing of the lines: The distinction between divergent and convergent thinking – creating and reducing ideas – is central to design thinking. In the divergent phase, the emphasis is on generating as many ideas as possible. In the convergent phase, ideas are mixed, distilled, evolved, parked or discarded. These divergent and convergent processes require different techniques, skills and mindsets. Many of us prefer one to the other and this is a useful thing to reflect upon as a workshop facilitator. With divergent thinking, the emphasis is on encouraging open thinking, creating a judgement-free environment (e.g. avoiding descriptions like ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when discussing ideas) and supporting the group if it feels uncertain or confused. With convergent thinking, the ability to synthesise similar ideas and make connections between different themes is important. Design thinking has been influential in Government, shaping the Government Digital Service Standard2 and the Open Policy Making toolkit which was developed by the Policy Lab.3 The ‘Policy Lab in a day’4 is a useful resource which could be explored in the training. 1 ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇