Design Thinking: Reflection on Personal Development and Problem Solving Approach

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Reflection on personal development...............................................................................................2
Design thinking tool; Prototyping................................................................................................4
Finding issues and problem solving approach.............................................................................5
Reflection on Knowledge development...........................................................................................6
Design thinking models...............................................................................................................6
Action Plan......................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
That was my best experience of my life; I enjoyed, and experienced a lot from that
workshop. I leant about different things from that workshop, and it will reflect in my career
planning. It was based on design thinking and reflection. Everyone need to have some qualities
in them for understating problems and finding solution for that problem, such as learning,
patience, visual laborer, watching, accepting of other views for that problem, and failures. I
learnt that, I should start a business with my innovative ideas. However, I also thought about a
sentence that it is not my age to do business. I start my learning for business-oriented work for
my plans.
Reflection on personal development
I learnt about innovation and imagination. Innovation is like just thinking about any
problem and found a feasible solution for that problem (Nelson, 2013). There are some other
subject also for learning, such as creativity, and design ability. It was not like drawing and
planning. It was different from all other activities. We had an activity in which we learned about
success and failures of a product. We take coco-cola for finding problems and provide some
innovative ideas to solving problems. I learnt that customer satisfaction was must for success of a
product in the market (Brown & Wyatt, 2010) we picked a soda launching process in which we
found different problems related to soda of an organization. There are many reasons for failure of
a product, but main point was taking knowledge of market and necessities of customers. It was
necessary that, always considered present competitor in market by an organization for launching
their product. I learnt that customer’s feedback is necessary thing for a good product, so I need to
plan a product according to customers’ needs and fulfillment (Asheim, 2007).
It was also compulsory that what is new in your product apart from other available
products in market. Therefore, if any organization change their product or launch any new
product in market then there are many ways for testing that product, such as samples distribution

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for taking feedback of the product. So they can know about changes in their product based on
feedbacks of customers ( Claes, 2017). I participated in an activity in which some mind set
tasks are given by our professor. We discussed about the purpose of that activity. We found some
key values of the activity for our mind set to solving a problem using design thinking (Martin,
2009). I learnt that, everyone had different views for a problem. They also knew that how to
solve that particular problem with his or her innovative ideas. It was also necessary that always
focused on the understating of a given problem first, then start searching of solution of that
problem. We learned that, we have to set your mentality towards the problem and defiantly we
get a solution of that problem in the future. I learnt about self-assessment from that module.
According to my professor Dr. Mike Turner, always finding issues in the product first
than try to solve them with the help of your fresh ideas, this thing I also motion in my weekly
blogs. It was so important that differentiate between problem findings and solutions according to
the problem. It was a critical process to founding issues in a product (Dorst, 2011). I learnt from
a lot from framework thinking, but there are other models for solving problems, such as keep it
simple, prototyping, visualization, and observation. All are helpful for solving issues in a product
or service, such as handling slippery issues, and human caring. I leant that breakdown the
problem in small chucks then integrate the solutions of each chunk. There are lot of things to
understand from innovative ideas and isolating the mechanical assemblies as mentioned in my
blog. I enjoyed that activity in which couple of pictures showed to us and on those pictures, we
have to give some solutions according to photograph (Drucker, 2014). From that activity, I
learned about finding problems in particular condition and finding innovative ideas for that
problem. I got many ideas for finding solution of particular problem concerning the principles of
arrangement thinking, (see photo in blog entry, 2nd October 2018). We were assigned a problem,
in which we have to found a solution for a specific problem; we need to breakdown the blueprint
thinking.
It was an iterative process in which just design something with the help of your
innovative ideas as a solution of a particular issue in the product, then get feedback about that
solution, if it was good and satisfied answer for customer then complete it. Otherwise, found a
new ideas for same problem, it means just changed the approach for solving that issue. There is
an activity in that we have to draw possible solution for a problem using 30 circles, ( see photo in