Reflective Report on Design it Module

Running Head: REFLECTIVE REPORT 0
Reflective Report
Design it Module
(Student Details:)
10/2/2018

Reflective Report 1
Executive Summary
The reflective report will focus on my learning from ‘Design it’ workshop module, in
two forms include personal development and professional knowledge development.
Throughout the whole workshop from the first week to last week of the module, many
activities took place for teaching us the applicability of design thinking tools and processes.
Purpose of writing this reflective report is that after learning some things and concepts if I
will not reflect them in any future actions or activities of my daily life as well as professional
life then there is of no use of spending this much hours on the workshop module. Hence,
Design thinking is an approach which is deep dive thinking and observing problems. After
Design thinking implementation any complex problem of real-life or business can be solved
through introducing innovation into business with open-minded learning and user-centric
attitude. Thus, it is a novel way to design tool which can effectively solve humans’ and
entrepreneurs’ problems with the help of creative deep thinking and its effective
implementation. I went through twelve weeks in the design thinking module, and while I was
learning, I got to know many new things related to business that are not limited to business
models only but they are widely applicable to all areas of the life.

Reflective Report 2
Contents
Reflective Report.......................................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Reflection on Personal Development.........................................................................................3
Entrepreneurship and Innovation...........................................................................................3
Reflection and Learning.........................................................................................................5
Communication skills.............................................................................................................6
Reflection on Knowledge development.....................................................................................6
Ethics being Professional or Personal....................................................................................6
DT tools and processes...........................................................................................................7
Prototyping and Learning Launch..........................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
Action Plan.................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

Reflective Report 3
Reflective Report
Introduction
This is a reflective report, based on my experience of eleven weeks workshops
activities on ‘Design thinking’ (here in after referred as DT) process. Design thinking event
had eleven-week exercises, in which I went through eleven weeks of workshop activities for
designing my thinking. Prominence of reflective report writing is mainly for the self-
development from past learning and assessment failures. As our teacher told us that reflection
is a chief element of studies, because it plays a vital role in self-learning as well as
evaluation. This reflective report is a way of evaluating, assessing and interpreting all eleven
workshops’ experience to acquire new understanding and improved knowledge set (Becker,
Kugeler, & Rosemann, 2013).
Reflection on Personal Development
The module was all dedicated to make us familiar about key steps in the process of
designing. After overview part, we all were given a short break for tea and refreshment and
then workshop continued (Drucker, 2014). We were told that our tutor is the first person to
contact in case of any query regarding workshop process. For distant learning students, there
was a unit coordinator’s contact. Moreover, tutors from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney
gave a brief overview about the way through which we all students can contact them by
telling their contact details and approaches to communicate them. During Week-I activity, I
got to know that design thinking workshop will have three main steps to follow, they include
Poster making, presentation and Research report and Assessment-III (de Andrés Martínez,
2012).
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Our tutor told us that the base of DT here will be entrepreneurship and innovation.
Design thinking is used in managerial decision making and DT tools are used to apply this
DT in various contexts of management. After that, DT activity took place where we all
visualised our thoughts and thinking. After thinking exercise, we all were suggested to give
feedback on all available opinions. Moreover, definitions and concepts related to
entrepreneurship as well as innovation were discussed during first week (Kirzner, 2015). At
the end of the Week-I workshop, tutor suggested to start writing reflective blogs from the