Design Thinking Applications and Benefits

This assignment delves into the multifaceted applications and advantages of design thinking. It examines how this approach is used in diverse fields such as education, fostering collaboration and 21st-century skills; business, driving strategic innovation and competitive advantage; and healthcare, empowering patient-centric service design. The assignment analyzes research papers and studies to highlight the positive impact of design thinking on problem-solving, creativity, and innovation outcomes.

Running head: DESIGN IT
Reflection of Weekly Lectures
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction:
The purpose of this report is to emphasize the facts that I have learnt in twelve weekly
classes and present a critical analysis on the design it subject. I have thoroughly presented the
outline of learning that I have gathered in the classes. Each paragraph in the following describes
one or two weeks learning and my thoughts about the knowledge.
Reflection:
The very first class was like an introductory class in which I met with the professor, new
friends and introduced to the topics that I was going to learn in next eleven weeks. Earlier I was
unknown with the topics as it happens to everyone in a new class but after the professor
introduces the topics my excitements started taking pace. All the topics were exciting and I was
feeling enthusiastic to learn all those topics. The first class was about what we were about to do
and professor was successful in accomplishing that and I was well aware with the grouping
system, unit assessments, Moodle, reading material and rest of the things the lecturer was trying
to teach us. My biggest strength was that I learnt what I have to do and I had already estimated
my goals that were to represent my own design thinking innovation and problems in front of
everyone.
Next class was about the concepts related to the design processes that helped me in
learning that design process is an approach that could be helpful for me in problem solving
capability. The concept of the class was very familiar to me or everyone in the class that was
‘human needs’ that helped me in gaining confidence of tackling the problems or obstacles that
might rise in future related to the business. My biggest strength in this class was that I get to

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know about the categories in which the design process has been classified and that were ideate,
empathize, define (the problem), test, prototype, etc. This lecture class helped me understanding
how much design process can be beneficial for me in manner to jump over the obstacles that
could be complex in nature or not defined properly, or it might be unknown and reach the goal
that has been settled by me earlier.
Followed by these two weeks there was the arrival of new topic ‘design theory’, which
nothing but the theories and models related to the underlying practices that involved in the
design thinking process. I learnt about the specific nature of the design thinking and how to
implement those in the real life for reflecting my own entrepreneurial innovative thoughts and
designer mindsets. The biggest strength for me in this class was that I learnt how to write a blog
in a correct way and how to give my reflection of critical analysis and learning over the blogs
that was created by me. After that class I believed in myself that I can also write the blog and
reflection writing and I have tried to put everything into this reflection report that I have learned
in that class.
After a long awaited week I again got the opportunity to learn something new that was
about Design problem in which we were appreciated to learn about the facts related to the
problem findings. I had also learnt about the various tools that could be beneficial in collecting
the data and information related to the problem finding such as brainstorming, visualization, and
spotting the obvious. My biggest strength in this class was the brainstorming that in found to be
the most emphasizing tool that can be helpful in finding the problems and give them a path to be
solved by certain measures in better and easy manner. I am now able to find problems that might
affect in the future approaches and looking forward to practice the brainstorming tool in the real
world. This class also taught me how to work in a group and I learnt how to motivate the team.

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Fifth week was the most exciting class in which the lecturer taught us about the journey
mapping, research analysis with respect to the competition in the market and mind mapping.
Both of these activities were main strength for me in this class in which I learned about the
process of analyzing the data and information related to the competitive company and compare
within own innovative thoughts and ideas. Practical demonstration was very good as discussed
by the lecturer however I tried match upto his level and draw an analysis report on the Samsung
Company and learned how to research on any organization. Journey mapping was the crucial
objective of this analysis and rest of the lectures in this class. I have learned that the main
concept behind this class was establish my current practices or experiences, visualizing the
experiences that might be possible and visualize the prototypes for the new idea.
All the classes where little bit independent of each other but in the earlier this week was
seemed to be dependent on the fifth week. However, this was again a new learning for me which
I get to know about how to create the situations by using instances of prototype based on the
situation that might arise as obstacle in future. I learnt how to discriminate between the criteria
related to the business and thoughts of the customers while considering the facts from both the
sides of the consumers and the service or product providers. Biggest strength for me in this class
was to understand the various strategies that have been involved in the prototyping that can be
listed as: story boarding, story depicting, encompassing and many others.
Eighth class make me understanding the aspects of launch and the importance of
processes related to the launch process. My biggest strength in this report was to understand the
facts related to the unsuccessful launch and I am looking forward to not make such mistakes that
could lead the launch to a failure. Brainstorming was again topic for this class that helped me
indifferent way in understanding that how I can empower my innovative thoughts through

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considering the ideas presented by different individuals. It is very important for me to understand
the importance of launch designing and launch defining for any project. Other positivity came
into me when I learned about the knowledge of safe launch and related objectives that could
make the launch successful. I also understand that the most important fact for a successful launch
is hidden in limiting the boundaries for the launch.
This week was very important for me in the field of marketing. This lecture introduces
me the overview of the market and makes me capable of conceptualizing the facts related to the
usage of personas in design thinking. The biggest strength that this class provided to me is the
confidence that I can now present innovative ideas that could be helpful in tackle the competitive
market and bring the organization at the top in the competitive market. Another fact that was
considerable according to me was the fact that customers always tend to put emphasis on
understanding particularly to the concept of data.
As we were moving forward the class become more exciting and it added my excitement
when the lecturer introduces the topic for the class ‘design entrepreneurial fundraising
campaigns’. This lecture provides me the knowledge of approaches that could be implemented
into the fundraising events from the angle of business, grant providers (donors), crowd-funding
and many other facts. The biggest learning in this class for me was ‘bootstrapping’, which was a
completely new subject for me that deals with the approaches to save money which could have
same value as that of cash. Another important objective of this class was the segmentation of the
market into different categories that are: psychographic, geographic, and demographic.
In next two weeks I get to know about the facts related to designing myself that focuses
on increasing my personality development through implementing the objective that I have been

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gathering from the earlier lectures. Looking backward activities was my biggest learning that I
learnt from the class. Moving forward next week I learnt about the design o future in which the
future aspects have been discussed by the lecturer. After these classes I am ready to implement
these findings and learning in the real world.
Conclusion:
Based on the above reflection it can be concluded that I have reflected my learning and critical
analysis of the knowledge that I have gained o these twelve weeks. Following is an action plan
describing how I will implement these activities in next six months:
Action Steps Responsibilities Timeline Resources Potential
Barriers
First step:
Revising the
lecture note
thoroughly that I
had created
during the
classes.
Making stick
notes carefully
90 days Bjögvinsson, E., Ehn, P., &
Hillgren, P. A. (2012).
Design things and design
thinking: Contemporary
participatory design
challenges. Design
Issues, 28(3), 101-116.
It was a very
vast chapter
Second step:
Collected
different
knowledge and
data other than
notes
Surfing Web 30 days Meinel, C., & Leifer, L.
(2012). Design thinking
research. In Design
Thinking Research (pp. 1-
10). Springer Berlin
Heidelberg.
There were lots
of content
Third step:
Learning the
basic concepts
about design
thinking
Comparing the
internet contents
and class notes
15 days Scheer, A., Noweski, C.,
& Meinel, C. (2012).
Transforming
constructivist learning
into action: Design
thinking in
education. Design and
Technology Education:
An International
Little complex

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Journal, 17(3).
Fourth Step:
Concluding the
learning’s
Developing ideas 15 days Pourdehnad, J., Wexler,
E. R., & Wilson, D. V.
(2012). Systems &
design thinking: A
conceptual framework
for their
integration. Проблемы
управления в
социальных
системах, 4(6).
Fifth step:
Publishing blogs
Writing a perfect
blog
30 days Kimbell, L. (2011).
Rethinking design thinking:
Part I. Design and
Culture, 3(3), 285-306.
Language was
the concern

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