What does designthinking look like?

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First model

UNDERSTANDHeuristicAnalytical Thinking

SOLVEIntuitive thinking

Inductive -DeductiveReasoning

What is?Traditional way to think

Problem Mystery Question

REALITY UsersConsumers

People

Objects

Culture

Algorithm

EVALUATEReflective ThinkingPrototyping

DESIGN THINKINGWhat if?

What might be?

Abductive ReasoningIntegrative thinking

How can apply design thinking?

Problem: Recently we have discovered that most design students from Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano fail in the process of getting a job or maintaining one. After interviews and studies with agencies and other employers in town, we have discovered that our students can’t solve unexpected problems.

OUR GOAL

- Educate our students to be capable in solving wicked and unexpected problems applying a design thinking approach.

UNDERSTAND

- A group of students will be asked to represent the process they go trough when they have to design.

- After finishing it they will be answer questions about the exercise.

- Find the key variables that affect their learning process

- A group of teachers will be asked to do a list of competences that their students have at this pint.

EVALUATION

- The representations should be evaluated and analyzed

- Brainstorming for solutions or ideas.

Random thoughts about Design Thinking

Rules of Design Thinking:

What makes a design thinker different from the others thinkers is his/her human-centric point of view, the courage to explore, experiment and face the failures, the ability to connect the present to the past to give a solution to the problem in advance for the future, and make this ideas/solutions tangible.

Context-based design

Understanding the specific needs and behaviors of our users shouldn’t be only related to the activities they realize, the goals they want to reach or the objects they interact with everyday. A bigger understand of our users is the one that go deeper and examine the relationships between all these variables in the environment that surrounds the user.

Design and prototyping:

According to Tim Brown we build to think and that implies Design thinking is a constant prototyping process. The only way to give the right solutions to a problem is having a continuous feedback.

“Design is never done”

Reliability and validity

Roger Martin explain design thinking as “the form of thinking that has both reliability and validity in mind and captures aspects of analytical thinking and intuitive thinking” so their approach gives the opportunity to explore new things (intuitive) and explode what is happening (analytical), the right combination to face future challenges.

“Integrative thinkers consider the problem as a whole, rather than breaking it down and farming out the parts. Finally, they creatively resolve tensions without making costly trade-offs, turning challenges into opportunities.”Roger Martin. The opposable mind