Foundations of Human Centric Design Thinking

Description

Course Overview:

Human centered design is an approach to problem solving that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. You will go through an interactive process of empathizing with the stakeholders of a problem, figure out and define a focused area to come up with solution ideas, ideate on solutions and create a prototype to solve that problem.

Learning Objective:

After completing this foundation course, learners will be able:

• to understand basic concepts of humancentric design thinking and will be able to apply this concept in all aspects of personal and professional life.
• to challenge predefined assumptions and think outside of the box to bring innovative solutions through use of creative problem-solving technique all while staying pivoted to deep understanding of the person or subject for whom solutions are being created.

Course Overview:

1. Understanding Design thinking

• What is design thinking?
• Where can this be used.
• Benefits of design thinking.
• Breakdown of design thinking methodology.

2. Empathize

• Understanding of key subject.
• How to dig deeper.
• Understanding motivation and environment.
• Separating facts and assumptions.

3. Define problem

• Analyzing observations.
• Defining problem with a different perspective.
• Rewriting a problem statement

4. Ideate

• Techniques of Ideation
• Idea funnel.
• Quantity to Quality.
• Creation of storyboard.

5. Prototype

• What is a prototype?
• How to build prototype.

6. Test

• Nonlinear and iterative process.