MGMT20140 - Understanding Design Mindset and Innovation Processes

This report provides an overview of the design mindset and its significant relationship with innovation, detailing the design process and design thinking methodologies. It emphasizes how applying design processes enhances innovation rates, covering aspects such as empathizing with the audience, problem framing, and the integration of design thinking through prototyping and testing for viability, desirability, and feasibility. The report highlights the importance of design thinking as a vital tool for innovativeness, elaborating on the design process and design thinking integration, referencing various academic sources to support its claims. It concludes by stressing the need for continuous innovation within the design thinking process to avoid stagnation, differentiating between creativity and innovativeness through action.

Design mindset in relation to innovation
Introduction
The process of design thinking
The place of design
mindset in innovation
How design thinking is integrated
This poster will act as a guide to
understanding design mindset and its
relationship to innovativeness. It will
also explain the design process
together with the design thinking
process. When design process are
applied in innovation, the rate of the
same increases.
Design thinking always relies on
certain tools and structures and
this places it at the verge of getting
stale especially when used in long-
term. This brings the need of
innovativeness in the process.
Business
(viability)
Human
(desirability)
INOVATION
Technical
(feasibility)
EMPATHISE
DEFINE
INDIATE
PROTOTYPE
TEST
Know your
audience
Start by problem
framing
When ideas clash,
innovation
happens.
Its better to show
than to tell
Action brings the
distinction between
creativity and
innovativeness
Conclusion
As seen in the poster, design thinking remains to be on e of the vital tools
as far as innovativeness is concerned. The design process is also well
described and it acts as a guide to everyone who might have interest in the
field. By use of it one can even go ahead to inventing things. Design
thinking integration is also elaborated in a perfect and explicit way.
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Name: Syed Wajahat Hussain Rizvi
Student ID: 12064584