The document discusses key learnings from a design thinking challenge, including prototyping and testing ideas to further develop them, empathizing to understand customer needs, and the power of learning from others. It also proposes applying design thinking to address problems with ergonomics at home, social issues in neighborhoods, and lack of resources at universities. Further applications suggested include improving existing products in industries like telecommunications using the design thinking process.

1. Take It Home: Apply
Design Thinking
Design thinking challange
By Rafael Yuji Ishi

2. Your list of 3 key takeaways/learnings
1. Prototype and test: This is definitely one of the most interesting topics.
Creating a prototype and testing it gave me support to further develop
the idea and imagine if the idea was tangible or not.
2. Empathize and define: Many times I used to think only on one solution
and in my perspective but what is really important is to understand the
customer need and that´s why empathize is so important.
3. The power of community learning. I corrected some of the other
students assignments and by doing that I learned a lot and saw the
problem from a different angle. I thought it was ver useful and I will
definitely take more online courses in the future.

3. Design Thinking Process

4. Ideate and prototype ways to apply
design thinking to your context.
Start small
• Use at home – Problems with ergonomics
• Use at neighborhood- Social problems
• At University – Lack of resources (Brazilian universities)

5. Build on the first ideas
• At industry there are a lot of products that could be improved or
created using the design thinking process.
• Many products in the telecom industry could be improved.