Introduction

This week focuses on understanding and applying the first step of the design thinking process: Clarify goal. The aim of this step is to bring the goal clearly into focus as a goal that is not fully understood cannot be met. Building on personal knowledge and initial hunches, within this step is fundamental to collect diverse information about the vision and intuitively structure the often-disparate data to reveal patterns and gather insights. In this step it is important to look at the world in a fresh way, notice things and trying to understand the current situations.

The module will present design tools that support the activities within the steps and different creative techniques to empower Creative Thinking obtaining powerful results.

introduction

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO):

If you actively participate in this week, you will be able to:

  • Recognise the importance of deeply exploring a problem/challenge
  • Examine the important elements to investigate when solving a problem/challenge
  • Understand the meaning and the value of empathy and apply techniques and tools to understand user needs
  • Apply design tools to break down a problem/challenge in its main part and to identify a clear shared goal to achieve
  • Show a great amount of information in a clear and simple way and identify patterns among them
  • Apply practical activities that stress your creative thinking mindset in this step of the process