Design thinking and Entrepreneurial Activity Assignment
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Design thinking and Entrepreneurial Activity Assignment
Added on 2020-03-16
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Running head: LEARNING EXPERIENCE1Learning Experience(Author’s name)(Institutional Affiliation)
LEARNING EXPERIENCE 2Table of Contents1Critical self-analysis of Design thinking and Entrepreneurial activity....................................31.1 Personal Development...............................................................................................................41.2 Knowledge Development..........................................................................................................52My learning reflection from the Design thinking and Entrepreneurial activity.......................82.1 Personal Strengths....................................................................................................................92.2 Personal Weakness....................................................................................................................92.4 Areas That Need Development................................................................................................103Action Plan Of Key Developments And Activities Within The Next 6 Months...................104References..............................................................................................................................121Critical self-analysis of Design thinking and Entrepreneurial activity
LEARNING EXPERIENCE 3From a young age, I had always dreamt of developing an innovative idea that would help me venture into business and create employment opportunities for people in my country especially the youths. When I joined college, I knew I had a more exceptional opportunity to develop my dreams of being an innovative entrepreneur. In contrary to the first semester of the school all student were required during the second semester to focus on their central subject matters ( see the blog (1).July 2017). One of my chosen subject matter was on design thinking. I chose design thinking because I wanted to explore complex methods that I can use in solving entrepreneurial problems. Secondly, I also picked design thinking because I tried to find techniques for developing logic imaginations, systematic reasoning and intuitive imaginations that would enable me to build upon results not only to benefit my customers but also to satisfy their demands (Van et al. 2016). The increase developments in technology, have enabled me to understand that design thinking is far much beyond innovation and what an entrepreneur can offer people. Instead, design thinking primary focus is on technology and the effectiveness of theimplemented innovation to impact on peoples life. One Of the primary reasons why most innovations fails is attributed to lack of proper research in developing an innovation. Design enterpreneurs should also not neglect the compatibility and sustainability fate of a design flexibility in the market (Dalsgaard, 2014).Design thinking process is not a one time process but rather a gradual process that expose individuals to different methods that in turn create learning opportunities for areas to be covered. At the start of our design thinking lesson, we were categorized into groups; In our groups, we were required to develop a design topic which we would later pass to other groups to draw pictures related to our topic choice ( See blog (1). July 2017). This would act as a genesis sample of ideology that our group intended to communicate. Design thinking requires
LEARNING EXPERIENCE 4innovators to develop a design protype that would help them monitor an innovative process. A protype is defined as model that is created with an intent of acting as a sample for the inniovative process (Reymen et al 2017). For instance, our group had developed a topic on home design which we again passed on another group to draw a picture on and again passed it to another group to do the same. The purpose of passing our design topic to other group was for evaluation purposes and analysis purposes of our chosen topic. Likewise, protyping is geared towards improving a design evaluation and sharpening designers knowledge and skills of the developed ideology. Protyping generally serves the purpose of providing information of the set expectations to the real working systems rather than providing a theoriticaal concept of the expectations. Prototyping also increases curiosity and individual interest in learning or working towards a target they desire to achieve. The “design it” learning session presented an element ofproof of principle protype as it was draft of what was expected through out the learning session but not the actual content of the design that would be covered in future classes. The proof of principle prototype in design thinking, serves the role of substantianting main purposeful feature of the proposed design but does not contain final product functionality (Sandberg et al Holmström, 2015)1.1 Personal DevelopmentAll the same, learning opportunity of the design period granted me the chance to discover that developing innovative designs requires individuals full concentration and awareness of what they inted to achieve. As an individual, I learnt that working in groups was paramount for any person that desired to succed. I develop team work skills that enabled me to easily collaborate with my group members and we were thus able to connect easily with other groups. Besides working with my group, my personal experience at the design experience
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