Design Thinking
What is Design Thinking? Let's start with what is design, both good and bad.
Watch the following Vox video about Don Norman and the Norman door.
Use it to answer the following questions:
What is a Norman door?
What is discoverability in design?
What is feedback in design?
Tonight, keep your eyes open for good and bad Human-Centred-Design. Take a cell phone picture for the following discussion.
Design Thinking Step By Step
The article on the right (which can be read or listened to) goes through the process of Design Thinking a problem. Please answer the following questions (along with the section about collapsing signposts) in a document in your e-Portfolio
Step 1 - Empathize
In this stage we ask questions like:
How, specifically, are cars (especially in the middle of the 20th century) dangerous?
Step 2 - Define
In this stage we define the parameters of our problem.
What problems were defined by researchers and engineers looking at car safety in the 1950s?
Step 3 - Ideate
In this stage we brainstorm and explore possible solutions to the problem we defined.
What are some of the proposed solutions to the previously mentioned car safety problems?
Step 4 - Prototype
In this step we design some possible solutions to make sure that they can be produced.
What do you notice is the difference in the prototypes being tested in the article (the 1961 BMC crash test versus the 2016 BMW X1 crash test)?
Step 5 - Test
In this step we test our solution to find out if it actually works.
How would you design a test to see if a given door worked according to Don Norman's concepts of Discoverability and Feedback?
Design Thinking Extension - Collapsing Posts
Check out the following article for some images from the end of "The Nut Behind the Wheel" podcast.
Explain what a slip plate is and how it uses the process of design to help prevent injury.
Explain what a shear force is and why it is important in this case.
