Reflective Blogs on Weekly Learning - Design Thinking Week 1-11

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Design Thinking Week 1, 2, & 3
The workshop discussions I attended the first three weeks of my study made me learn
a very crucial point in my life; that creativity is one of the main pillars of success in
everything we do. Subjecting anything we do to some questions and applying Cartesian doubt
in all that we do make us critical thinkers who in turn make us creative. Creative and pictorial
thinking of the words in our brains bring us closer to achieving realistic goals as it breaks the
barrio and makes real life outcome achievable.
I can honestly confess that before the workshops and the class, I did not have an idea
on how to convert my thoughts into action. I interacted with other members of the class who
gave me a clear impression from their point of view. From this interaction, a new reality
dawned on me, action offers results but thinking then acting gives better results; and this is
what innovation is all about. Finally, it became clear to me that design processes should be
constructed with a creative mindset, broken down to Empathize, Define, prototype, and Test.
Week 4
In this week we had interactive and discussion sessions on the process of finding a
solution to problems that surround us. We realized that one of the main aspects of the answer
to the issues is timing. In our case, we were more into business context concerning the
various stages of the product lifecycles. We discussed the five steps in the design process
namely empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test, focusing mostly on the first two.
We were provided with pictures, focusing on various situations on a beach, to look
and come up with the first two steps in the process, Empathize and Define. Our group was
able to identify several problems associated with the images; we brainstormed and came up