Design Thinking Flashcards
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Definition of Design Thinking
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- an innovative, user-centred approach to problem solving
- iterative
- empathy encourages design that is truly helpful
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designing thinking framework
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- Empathise
- Define
- Ideate
- Prototype
- Test
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phases under UNDERSTANDING
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- Empathize
- Define
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The Empathizing Phase
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- Conduct research about user experience
- cast aside all assumptions
- Interviews, immersions, observations
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The Defining Phase
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- Combine research
- Organize all your observations and draw connections across your users’ current experiences
- Identify where there’s a problem
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phases under EXPLORING
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- Ideate
- Prototype
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The Ideation Phase
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- Brainstorm creative ideas to solve the identified problem
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The Prototype Phase
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- Build real, tactile representations for a subset of your ideas
- understand what components of your ideas work, and which do not
- weigh the impact vs. feasibility of your ideas
- through feedback on your prototypes
- ideas are now tactile
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phases under MATERIALIZING
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- Test
- Implement
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The Testing Phase
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- Return to your users for feedback
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The Implementating Phase
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- Put the vision into effect
- solution is materialized and touches the lives of your end users
12
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The Linear method
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- straightforward but requires discipline if it’s to work effectively
- aka agile method
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Iterative design
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- based on a cyclic process of prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a product or process.
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Benefits of iterative design
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- best solutions when applied early save significant costs
- It enables and encourages user feedback
- the development team is forced to focus on those issues that are most critical to the project.
- Continual testing enables an objective assessment of the project’s status and inconsistencies are detected early
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User-Centered Design Process
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- explicit understanding of users, tasks, and environments
- it is driven and refined by user-centered evaluation
