Take It Home: Apply Design Thinking

1. Take It Home: Apply Design Thinking Design Thinking Action Lab Gaurav Jain

2. Special Instructions • Step 1 - Observe and Reflect: • a. Look back at the work you did during the past weeks, as well as the work of other participants and the discussions on the forum. Also, read the letter you wrote to yourself in the very first week. • b. Complete the following survey: https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1HyNIEDyTE2Pw5D •   Please note that while this survey will help us determine what worked and what didn’t in the course (read here about the prototyping of this course), one of the main goals behind its design is to provide you with prompts for reflection about your experience. • c. Make a list of three key takeways/learnings from the course, AND a graphic map/representation of the design thinking process as you experienced it during the challenge (like you did in the very first week for the redesigning the school lockers problem). Some elements you might consider for your process map are your emotional highs and lows during the process, and the activities and methods you used. But don’t be limited to that. Be creative! • Step 2 - Ideate and prototype ways to apply design thinking to your context: • a. Start small: Brainstorm ways in which you could start experimenting with any of the design thinking skills/mindsets right away in your context (could be at your work, school, community, or at home). It doesn’t have to be the whole process. If possible, put some of your ideas in practice. Start really small, something you could easily do. • b. Build on the first ideas: Think more broadly about how design thinking skills and mindsets could be applied to problems you care about (at your work, school, community or at home). Zoom out and think about how they could be applied more broadly to your field or industry. •   Note: Did you notice that as you complete this assignment you will be, again, applying design thinking skills and mindsets? Step 1 applies observation as you did for Empathy and Define, while Step 2 applies Ideation and Prototyping. • Create a “New Submission” that includes: • Your list of 3 key takeaways/learnings (step 1). Feel free to be concise. • Your process map (step 1). • A reflection (text and/or images and/or video) about how design thinking skills and mindsets could be applied to problems you care about (at your work, school, community or at home), and more broadly to your field or industry (step 2).

3. T Three Key Takeaways

4. Process Map • This is how I would define my start-to-end journey with this course and trajectory I traversed for making things into action Source: http://mindsharelearning.ca/2012/07/04/a-lesson-design-thinking-students/

5. From my World • In my work we do lot of idea brainstorming and prototyping before we deliver but some of the aspects like empathy was missing. • I think empathy is as important as idea and its completion. Unless and until I know what actually is the stakeholder take on problem and idea/prototype I can not say this would solve the problem. • Also I think writing something is more important then remembering everything in mind or my hard disk. Writing makes you judge your own words and come up with best way to define statements. I think I would write more often instead of having it as notepad files. • In our work we start with a problem, collate ideas. Choose one based on overall parameters like ease of use, simplicity, implementation etc. • Once finalized small team will prototype and present idea to small team to get feedback. Rework and then is presented to Product Manager. Once finalized the details and then Designers get involved and full-fledged work starts. • During course users do get involved before it goes-to-market. • Design thinking is there in each of our work and surely some of the things learned here would be utilized in my day today work.