Design Thinking: Innovation, Design, and Problem Solving Project

This project delves into the principles of Design Thinking, emphasizing its role in fostering innovation and creating human-centered solutions. It examines the core concepts, including the design mindset and the iterative process of empathizing with users, defining problems, ideating potential solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing them with the target audience. The project highlights the importance of understanding user needs and integrating them into the design process. Furthermore, it discusses how Design Thinking can be applied to various contexts, showcasing its effectiveness in problem-solving and driving innovation across different fields. The project also covers the key elements of design, such as layout, visual aids, and color schemes. The project encourages students to think critically about the design process, encouraging them to create innovative and effective solutions.

Design Thinking
“Innovation
refers to the
processes of
changing and
creating more
effective
processes, ideas
and products.”
What is
Innovation?
Design Mindset
Is the process in which
problems are solved
creatively. It encourages
the organizations to stay
focused on the people
they are making their
products and services for
and leads to the human-
centered products.
Design mind-set in
context to innovation
Design mindset is a strategy
for innovation and creation.
Design thinking enables a
design mind-set, a human
centric approach for
innovation or rephrasing the
very problem and its solution.
It is an approach of problem
solving in which
implementation, ideation and
inspiration occurs as a
system of overlapping the
spaces.
The process of design thinking
1. Empathize- Learning about the audiences for who
you are designing.
2. Define- Constructing a view-point which is based
on the needs and insights of the users
3. Ideate- Coming up with creative solutions
4. Prototype- Building up of a representation of one
or more ideas
5. Test- Returning to the original user group and
testing the ideas for feedback
References:
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the antecedents, contingencies, and performance
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(2015). Team reflexivity and innovation: The
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(2015). Unlocking the hidden value of concepts: a
cognitive approach to business model
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99-117.
Norman, D. A., & Verganti, R. (2014). Incremental
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Liedtka, J. (2015). Perspective: Linking design
thinking with innovation outcomes through cognitive
bias reduction. Journal of Product Innovation
Management, 32(6), 925-938.
What is Design Thinking?
It is a skill which allows a
designers to stay aligned with
what his audience want and the
things that could be done for
fulfilling their desires. It
integrates, people, business &
technology.