Assessment 1: Design Mindset and Innovation Context Poster

This assignment is a poster designed to visually represent the concept of a 'design mindset' within the context of innovation. The student has researched academic and practitioner literature to define the design mindset, which is presented as a tool applying creativity, empathy, and sound thinking to solve organizational problems, leading to innovation. The poster utilizes the design thinking process of empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test to illustrate the practical and creative aspects of a design mindset. It emphasizes the importance of combining process and mechanics within an organization to successfully implement innovative solutions, supported by references to key literature on the topic.

DESIGN MINDSET
AND INNOVATION
CONTEXT
The design mindset can be largely defined as a
tool which is used as a skill in order to apply
creativity, empathy, sound thinking and
knowledge for a problem, in order to come out
with a viable solution for a designated problem
in an organizational context (O'Keefe &
Rottenberg, 2017). The solution which is found
can be rightfully described as an innovation.
The design is an amalgamation of both
practicality and creativity. A design
mindset can only be achieved when the
process and mechanics are combined
(Daniel, A. D. (2016). Its not just about
creativity but also about the system in
which an organization works. In
innovation, a new idea needs to be
implemented, which is impossible
without a practical mindset.
The procedure of design mindset in the concept of
design thinking is very crucial. It has been explained as
follows :
Empathize: Understanding of the situation
Define: Defining the problem at hand.
Ideate: Evaluating the different ideas (Gray, 2016).
Prototype: Choosing the best ones
Test: Applying on the problem (Van Der Pijl, Lokitz , &
Solomon, 2016).
The procedure assists in ensuring that innovative
solutions can be implemented successfully.
References
Daniel, A. D. (2016). Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset by using a design thinking approach
in entrepreneurship education. Industry and Higher Education, 30(3), 215-223.
Gray, C. M. (2016, May). It's more of a mindset than a method: UX practitioners' conception of
design methods. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (pp. 4044-4055). ACM.
O'Keefe, A., & Rottenberg, S. (2017). Integrated Design Innovation: A Mindset for Designers of
Tomorrow. Design Management Review, 28(3), 10-16.
Van Der Pijl, P., Lokitz, J., & Solomon, L. K. (2016). Design a better business: New tools, skills,
and mindset for strategy and innovation. John Wiley & Sons.
Yeager, D. S., Romero, C., Paunesku, D., Hulleman, C. S., Schneider, B., Hinojosa, C., ... & Trott, J.
(2016). Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions: The case of the growth
mindset during the transition to high school. Journal of educational psychology, 108(3), 374.
(Source: Yeager et al.,
2016)