When starting on the Design Thinking Process, it is important to determine your intentions. What are you actually hoping to accomplish? What are you looking to do or create? How will you get there? Why achieving this is important?
This video explores a framework to help you craft a design statement that helps to clarify the intentions of your project. It uses a more business focused example.
The link above provides various resources to help you think about the Empathy process. There are reminders and examples of how to complete the process.