Design Thinking: A Conceptual Approach
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Running head: REFLECTIVE REPORTReflective Report Name of the Student Name of the University Author note
1REFLECTIVE REPORTIntroductionDesign thinking is the set of creative strategies that is utilized by the designer whilethey are in the procedure of designing. The design thinking can also be considered as theapproach which can be utilized while considering any real life issues as it may also act as amethod of resolving the issues. If put simply it can also be said that the professional designprocedure can be applied to both the business and the social and personal problems. Withinthe business sphere, the design thinking procedure utilizes the sensibility of the designer andspecific ways for matching the requirements of the customers and considers the feasibletechnology and a viable business strategy for converting the content into market opportunityand customer values. On the other hand, the learning from design thinking can be applied tothe regular life incidents and solve the wicked issues. When I first came to know regardingthe design thinking course from one of my friends, I had no prior idea of the course. I startedthinking about the course, when I started taking my designing to a professional level. Eventhough I enrolled in the course, I only knew the name of the course, Design it, and I thought itis related to researches on various designing areas. Even when I first attended the classlecture, I could not understand what exactly the topic is. After a while when I first startedreading more into the course, I realized that the design thinking is not merely a theoreticalcourse, rather it is something more than that. In this reflective report I will trigger the basicissues and my learning in the design thinking course and discuss my learning from the courseand how I applied my learning in real life. Discussion Design thinking is an approach that creates creative and pragmatic situations for theissues that may seem a little difficult apparently. During the initial days of the course, I didnot know what exactly the course is going to offer me, however, after a while I realized that
2REFLECTIVE REPORTthis course can change my thought process and my attitude, not only to the businessprocesses, but also to daily life. In additional to that, the course work has also taught meabout the tools of design thinking which focuses more on the solving of the problem than justfinding it. The primary tools of design thinking are also associated with the concepts ofpatterns and design, cognition and meta-cognition processes. All these processes areinterrelated and mutually complementary. Design Thinking Procedure Design thinking can be considered as a practical method which is helpful forproviding creative and practical solutions to the problems. It is mostly a kind of solutionbased thinking which intends to produce the constructive result in future. As stated by (),design thinking is a little different from the scientific methods. Considering the scientificmethods, those are mostly related to the hypothesis stating and providing a feedbackmechanism which later continues to form a theory or a model. However, on the other hand,design thinking approach can offer the designers to include the contemplation of the primaryemotional content of the entire situation. In the scientific methods, the feedback of any eventor decision is obtained through the collection of the observational evidences which is alsorelated to the measurable and observable facts, however design thinking tends to consider thefeedback after considering the emotional state of the customers about the particular problemand their latent and stated requirements while developing the solution for any particularproblem. The process of design thinking can also be considered as the way of producingiterative solutions for the social and business issues, especially solutions from the alternativeareas. Design thinking tends to recognize and evaluate both the well-known and ambiguousaspects of the existing situation and provides a serious effort for discovering the distinctparameters and a set of alternative solutions that has the possibility of leading to the one ormultiple satisfactory objectives and goals. Design thinking also provides alternative solutions
3REFLECTIVE REPORTto the problems that shed light on the redefinition of the primary issues within the procedureof evolution of the solution and problems. Unlike the analytic thinking, the procedure of design thinking also includesdeveloping the ideas without any such distinct limits while the designer is brainstorming theideas. This also tends to decrease the fear of failure for the designers and enhances thecontribution and participation of a wide array of resources during the ideation andbrainstorming phases. Design thinking is concerned with thinking outside the regular ideaswhere the participant or the designer can try to discover all the ambiguous and hiddenelements from the situations and discover the possibly wrong suppositions. The designthinking procedure is also comprised of seven different stages: defining, researching,ideating, prototyping, choosing, implementing and learning. Design thinking states that thespecific issue should be framed, concepts should be created and the answers should be chosenwithin these particular seven steps. However these steps are not linear, therefore they can alsotake place simultaneously and can be repeated. Moreover, it should also be noted that thedesign is also influenced by the personal choices of the designer; however design thinkingcan also be considered as the approach that changes the regular thought processes of anyindividual. Design thinking has four principles, namely, human rule, ambiguity rule, re-designrule and tangibility rule. The human rule is associated with the design activities that aremostly social in nature; therefore this social innovation also associated the thought process tothe human point of view. The ambiguity rule refers to the method which preserves theuncertainties through experimenting with the limits the ability and knowledge as it tends toenable the liberty of considering things in a different way. The third rule is the re-design rulewhich concerns with the results of changing the existing technology and the social situations.
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