Introduction

This week focuses on understanding and applying the third step of the design thinking process: Ideate. The aim of this step is to generate one or more novel ideas which are meaningful for the design challenge framed. During this step, many ideas are first envisioned and generated and then evaluated and prioritized for the areas identified.

The week 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 generating many different ideas and identify the most proper ones according to the defined opportunities
  • Understand different generative techniques and compare them to use them differently according to the context
  • Formulate many different ideas with a lateral thinking approach and apply practical activities to learn how to combine ideas in surprising new ways
  • Apply tools and techniques to pick the best ideas according to the challenge at hand
  • Apply practical activities that stress your creative thinking mindset in this step of the process