Take it home:Apply Design Thinking .Assignment for the course Design Thinking Action Lab, Standford University

1. Take it Home: Apply Design Thinking
Design Thinking Action Lab
By Leticia Cavagnaro, Stanford University
Vera Gonçalves, August 2013

2. Take it Home: Apply Design Thinking
Key
Learning
1) Many and crazy
ideas but all
acceptable;
2) Emphatize;
3) Prototype as an
action to learn not to be
perfect;

3. Take it Home: Apply Design Thinking
Process Map
How to create a design
thinking process?

4. Take it Home: Apply Design Thinking
Process Map
1) Environment;
2) Define;
3) Observe;
4) Learn
4.1) Restrictions;
4.2) others opinions;
5) Create ideas;
6) Choose best idea;
7) Prototype;
8) Test;
9) Final product

5. Take it Home: Apply Design Thinking
Process Map
Iterative process
(A person learns from the work done and will
incorporate learning in the evolution of your work)

6. Take it home: Apply design thinking
● Frequency of the course to acquire tools and
ideas to improve the way of solving problems
DONE
● Frequency of the course to meet people with
different ideas backgrounds
DONE

7. Take it home: Apply design thinking
●
Better understand the needs of others in order
to help them.
● Experiment (building prototypes,
simulations, ...)
● Tailor solutions to the needs of users