Identify the Module Information, Topics, Coverage, Delivery, and Assessment Methods
Design Thinking is a solution-focused, problem-solving methodology that helps companies, and individuals alike to get a desired outcome on an inner problem, or to work forward on a future plan. Design Thinking allows for the user of the system to have a more structured plan for understanding innovation and to grow more as a company. There are 5 stages or topics of Design Thinking and is briefly explained.
1. Empathize
The first stage of Design Thinking is called Empathize. This stage is meant to get a better understand of the problem that you wish to conquer.
2. Define
During this stage in the Design Thinking process, you are putting together all the information you gained during the Empathize step.
3. Ideate
During this stage, Design thinkers start to use the information from the previous stages to generate logical ideas.
4. Prototype
During this stage, the team will work on creating a number of inexpensive products with specific features to investigate possible solutions.
5. Testing
During this stage, Design Thinkers test their prototypes made in stage four to see how well they solve/handle the problem that they initially analysed in the previous stages.
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