Design Thinking

Design thinking is a process for creating a solution to a problem.It is a like what you would do in some classes at school like math, social studies, and science. Design thinking usually works really well for problems that impact humans like poverty, famine etc.

here are some links to a couple you tube videos that I have found that can help you understand better

https://youtu.be/a7sEoEvT8l8

https://youtu.be/TtgegZfk5ZU -This is a one way of many that uses the Design Thinking

watched both of these videos on 8/27/20

How I would describe Design Thinking is that it is a way to fix a problem. Design thinking is a process that has multiple steps to it. It can be used to make solutions to everyday problems not just problems that only happen every once in a while. You can even use the design thinking process to fix big problems such as making a new type of transportation that doesn't harm the environment.

Step 1:Empathize

The first stage of Design thinking is to empathize. This is a very important step because in order to fix the problem you have to figure out more about it and understand how people are affected by it. You also need to figure out how bad/big the problem is so that you know what kind and how big of a solution you need to make.

Step 2:Define (the problem)

During the Define stage, you put together the information you have created and gathered during the Empathise stage. This is where you will study your observations in order to define the core problems that you have identified up to this point. The Define stage will help you gather great ideas that will allow you to solve the problems or, at the very least, allow users to resolve issues themselves with the minimum of difficulty.

Step 3: Ideate

During the third stage of the Design Thinking process, you are ready to start thinking of ideas. You can now understand your users and their needs in the Empathise stage, and you’ve analysed your observations in the Define stage, and ended up with a human-centered problem statement. With this solid background, you can start to "think outside the box" to identify new solutions to the problem statement you’ve created, and you can start to look for alternative ways of viewing the problem.

Step 4:Prototype

You will now produce a number of inexpensive, scaled down versions of the product or specific features found within the product, so that you can investigate the problem solutions generated in the previous stage. Prototypes may be shared and tested or on a small group of people. This is an experimental phase, and the aim is to identify the best possible solution for each of the problems identified during the first three stages.

Step 5:Test

Designers or evaluators test the complete product using the best solutions identified during the prototyping phase. This is the final stage of the 5 stage-model, the results generated during the testing phase are often used to redefine one or more problems and inform the understanding of the users, the conditions of use, how people think, behave, and feel, and to empathise.

The steps in short

1. Empathising: Understanding the human needs involved.

2. Defining: Re-framing and defining the problem in human-centric ways.

3. Ideating: Creating many ideas in ideation sessions.

4. Prototyping: Adopting a hands-on approach in prototyping.

5. Testing: Developing a prototype/solution to the problem.