Design Thinking teaches students to identify problems creatively, generate solutions through brainstorming and ideation, and test ideas through prototyping to make solutions tangible. The student began with doubts about how Design Thinking would impact their work and thinking but had great expectations. Through exercises with instructors and team squats, the student experienced the Design Thinking process of defining problems, brainstorming solutions, building prototypes to test ideas, and refining their work.

1. Design Thinking: Takeaways/learning experience
• Learn to identify
problems in a more
creative way
Creativity
• Learn how to find
solutions through
ideation/brainstorming
Ideas
• Learn about the
importance of
prototyping and testing
to make ideas tangible
Build

2. Design Thinking Mindset
Beginning:
• Have negative perceptions on certain activities
• Have doubts about the class content and
effects on the way I work/think
• Needs to learn how to interact in a teamwork
environment
• Overall, great expectations about Design
Thinking
• Space, learning and people

3. Experience
• Instructor
• Team Squats
• Creativity
• Build
• Prototype & test
• Redefine, change or eliminate
• Solving problems
• Ideation
• Brainstorm
DT Process
Design Thinking
Tangible Ideas