On your web site, make sure that the following are visible:
an image of your final product
documentation of your design process
a 3-5 minute video (or slide deck with embedded audio) of your design analysis
On Ed, under the relevant thread, please:
embed your design analysis video
post a link to your Portfolio
engage with your peers' posts and react to help cultivate a community of learning!
Taking inspiration from the Strategic Problem Solving: Computational Thinking & Strategic Problem Solving
Design Thinking & Entrepreneurial classes, create a poster (24" x 36") that synthesizes the three types of frameworks:
Computational Thinking
Design Thinking
Entrepreneurial Thinking
Your final product can be completed through any software of your choice, including:
canva
Google slides
physical media (you could draw on the whiteboard or use paper)
You may find the following questions useful in guiding your poster:
What similarities exist among the three frameworks?
What distinctions are there?
Could the word "algorithm" create a thread among them?
As with the class challenges
You have a time limit! No more than 3 hours to complete the poster!
Your poster must have:
a title
no complete sentences
at least 3 graphics
You should be optimizing for:
communication clarity
quick user engagement
Extra Challenge!
Want more of a challenge? Instead of a poster, create a different product!
Some starting ideas:
A physical 4-sided "poster" tetrahedron (each side is a triangle), with one side for each type of thinking and the last side with similarities and differences.
An interactive site to help someone understand the similarities/differences, perhaps using something like https://storyboard.viget.com/
...
Please run your idea by me before you pursue it in full!
For ease of finding them, here are the resources we referred to in class for all the Thinkings!
Chapter 8 of Bringing Design to Software, interview with David Kelley
Design Thinking by Tim Brown
You should take no more than 4 hours for this homework (3 hours for the challenge itself + 1 hour for documentation/analysis).
You may work in pairs on this homework. If so:
You can complete 1 and 2 (documentation + final product) together; both portfolios must include the submissions.
You should complete 3 (analysis of your design process) individually.
You will submit everything through your portfolio web site, including:
documentation of your process (40%)
articulate your goal(s)
record your iterative approach (plan, do, evaluate)
your final product (image + file) (20%)
a 3-5 minute analysis of your design process (40%)
This may take the form of a video (please be sure permissions are set appropriately) or a slide deck with embedded audio. You may find the following prompts helpful in organizing your analysis. Be as specific as possible, while also recognizing the limitations of the time constraint. You will not be able to walk through everything you did, but will need to nominate takeaways and important points. You will be evaluated on the clarity of your communication and the depth of your analysis.
How did you go about this homework?
Did you find yourself following an "algorithm" for poster challenges?
What parts did you find straightforward?
What was challenging?
What supported your understanding?
Were there embodied elements that helped you? Could you think of others?
What part of the process is a black box to you?
For this homework, you may use any resources you'd like. You must cite them appropriately (e.g., I talked with a peer about my diagram or I adapted this GitHub repo or I gave Gemini this set of prompts).
To be clear, this includes usage of AI tools, as long as you are:
appropriately documentating and citing your interaction, which should include the platform, prompt and screenshots/links of sample parts of the interaction
analyzing how the usage of the tool(s) helped or hindered your design process
NOTE: MHC's access to Google Gemini provides certain protections of your data.
Some anticipated questions:
No! I personally love making posters in canva, but would also take this opportunity to try out an AI tool like Gamma.
Post more questions on Ed please!