A Design Thinking Approach to Learning to Code
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The influence of web and mobile technologies on traditional industries has lead to a shift in the skills needed to get a job. Learning to code is one of the most rewarding ways to take charge of your career. Design thinking is an approach to problem solving that utilizes visual thinking to test and iterate. In this workshop we’ll look at the ways you can use design thinking to teach yourself how to code. We’ll talk about the philosophy behind design thinking as well as ways of incorporating its tenants into learning practices. Learning to code doesn’t need to be a pain. Learn how to use your visual processing brain to learn to code.
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A Design Thinking Approach to Learning to Code
- 1. TOLEARNINGTOCODE A DESIGN THINKING APPROACH
- 2. NATE COOPER - WORDPRESS SINCE 2005, HTML SINCE 1997 - SIMPLE LABS, FOUNDER (WP CONSULTANCY) - TEACH WP & FRONT END: SVA, GA, 92Y - PRESENTATIONS AT AMAZON, APPLE, SXSW - BUILD YOUR OWN WEBSITE COMIC BOOK - FOUNDER REBOOT
- 8. (brain-based) What is design thinking?
- 10. Step 1: Know thyself
- 11. TRY SOFTER
- 12. Some imperfect models of the brain
- 16. VISUAL PROCESSING IS FASTER THAN THOUGHT
- 17. John Snow’s map Of cholera cases Around Broad Street London, 1854
- 18. John Snow’s map Of cholera cases Around Broad Street London, 1854
- 20. Step 2: Tackle problems your can solve
- 25. “I want to learn to code” can mean a lot of different things
- 26. nate@natecooper.co @NateCooper Server Production Machine ClientFront End Back End Apache MySQL PHP Rails node.jsWordpress Joomla Drupal HTML/CSS/JS Text Editor Sublime Dreamweaver Javascript Flash Browser
- 28. Are you able to correctly set up the problem?
- 30. interview focusing facilitation Step 3: Tracking progress
- 33. “I am your resentment, and I am here to tell you that you are underappreciated.”
- 34. 1. Clear a space. 2. Get hold of a feeling. 3. Apply labels. 4. Test the label or labels. 5. Ask for meaning. 6. Receive the meaning, feel a shift. FOCUSING: THE SIX STEPS
- 35. Facilitation turns experiences and feelings into goals and steps.
- 38. MENTAL MODELS ‘Understanding’ means building (working) mental models to make accurate predictions.
- 39. Behavioral economics Step 3: Understanding false positives
- 41. Without an explicit point of comparison, people use one unconsciously. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TAKEAWAYS
- 42. We overweight small risks while underweighting large ones. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TAKEAWAYS
- 43. We accept too much risk to avoid a loss BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TAKEAWAYS
- 44. BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS TAKEAWAYS We exaggerate differences in a paired comparison
- 46. Step 4: Reward progress
Editor's Notes
- Using design methods to solve problems: gathering, organizing & visualizing information to generate new ideas and solve problems creatively.
- Brain-based design thinking uses cognitive and clinical psychology and behavioral economics to refine design thinking methods drawing on evidence-based research.
- When solving problems, we use our brains in the wrong ways. Design thinking methods work with our brains rather than against them.
- Sometimes looking is preferable to thinking.
- https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/three-common-models-of-the-brain-to-help-you-develop-better-user-experiences The word egg shown to the right hemisphere. The subject will choose an egg from behind a screen. “It’s what I had for breakfast.”
- The bottom part deals with the four F’s. When it’s really ‘on,’ the higher layers are somewhat impotent. The mammal layer adds more learning, but it’s very automatic. Social emotions enter in. The top adds more social nuance, language, reasoning. Visual processing is way in the back. It’s close to the control over our bodies. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/three-common-models-of-the-brain-to-help-you-develop-better-user-experiences
- Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow evolutionarily: old vs. new • pattern recognition vs. error-detection • confirms vs. disconfirms • fast vs. slow • huge capacity vs. limited capacity • error -prone vs. rigorous • not introspectable vs. introspectable • not calorie-dependent vs. highly calorie-dependent
- https://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/frec682/cholera/cholera2.html
- You’re thinking too hard. Try softer. Easy does it. Use your eyes.
- Goldiloxing
- trivial: at least one solution that’s not difficult, complicated, or expensive. wicked: different definitions of the problem, every ‘solution’ has some fatal flaw
- Scales size: small complexity: low definition: problem is clearly defined... discreteness: bounded... solutions: exist & are not expensive, complex or difficult... uniqueness: common…dime-a-dozen stopping rule: short term...
- Scales size:vast complexity: very high [definition:no agreed definition] discreteness: borders on many other problems solutions: no agreement…may not exist identity: unique stopping rule: no clear end
- Scales size: small...vast complexity: low...high...NOT very high [definition: clearly defined...MAYBE NOT no agreed definition] discreteness: bounded...fuzzy...borders on many other problems solutions: exist but are flawed...expensive, complex or difficult...no agreement… uniqueness: …familiar but different...type...unique elements stopping rule:...disagreement vs. never being done….
- Frontend/backend, Databases, Clients, servers, HTML/CSS
- Difference between experts and beginners is more instances of the problem
- Difference between experts and beginners is more instances of the problem
- Error detection as seeing things towards the next move.
- Focusing
- Focusing
- Agile development/Scrum, Hackathons
- NYC APPS MEETUP 2359, Women in Tech, New York Android Developers 3,745, NYTECH MEETUP 52,019, WORDPRESS MEETUP 5,536
- $5000 - $10000 “We have a part-time program for $1500”
- model/diagram...crystal ball Poor problem-solving implies having a faulty mental model--one that can’t be used to ‘calculate’ or make accurate predictions.
- Behavioral economics shows that human reasoning is ‘bounded’ and biased.
- We misjudge values (among others risks and rewards, losses and gains), but introducing comparisons often reduces these misjudgments.
- We use unconscious reference levels. Without an explicit point of comparison, people use one unconsciously. Introducing an explicit one eliminates this effect (but can introduce others). http://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/eight-proven-pricing-strategies-guarantee-conversions/
- We overweight small risks while underweighting large ones.
- We avoid risk to achieve a positive gain but accept too much risk to avoid a loss. Stay on with a client because we’ve already done so much.
- vs. in separate estimations.We exaggerate differences in a paired comparison
- Solving a problem often involves reframing it or redefining it.
- Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities.
- Take a moment to ask yourself which approach you take to this