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Learning Goals
1. Students brainstorm "radical" ideas.
2. Students use two reality checks to focus ideas into 2 design concepts.
General Description
Ideate is the mode of your design process in which you aim to generate radical design alternatives. Mentally it represents a process of “going wide” in terms of concepts and outcomes—it is a mode of “flaring” rather than “focus.” The goal of ideation is to explore a wide solution space – both a large quantity of ideas and a diversity among those ideas. From this vast depository of ideas you can build prototypes to test with users.
Activities
1. Have groups follow the brainstorm slide below to come up with solution ideas to the How Might We questions created during the Design phase..
2. Show the Design Thinking Criteria slide below that highlights area 1) all 3 criteria satisfied , areas 2&3) user and business or technology area satisfied, and area 4) only user criteria satisfied.
Model with one team placing their post it note ideas into the design thinking Venn Diagram intersections below in Area 1, 2, 3, or 4 based on what criteria their idea satisfies. If it does not satisfy the user criteria then it does not go onto the diagram.
Have all teams place their post it notes, then model with a different team going through the reality checks below to focus down to 2 design concepts.
After posting ideas in the intersections, if you have some that are in the middle, then do they satisfy the 5 M’s
•Man/WomanPower (i.e. enough people) to do it
•Methods/Skills of how to do it
•Materials available and accessible based on the challenge
•Manageable based on Time available in the challenge
•Money/Resources to do it are not too costly based on the challenge
If no ideas satisfy both the center intersection and the 5 M’s, then collaborate to modify the closest ones so you have 2 ideas that do satisfy the center intersection and the 5 Ms
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