User Guide (How to Learn and Apply the DT, Process, Methods and Tools and Foundation Building for DT Project)

User Guide 

How to Learn and Apply the Design Thinking Process, Methods and Tools

Design Thinking is not a perfectly linear process, and each project invariably has its own contours and character. Generally, you will move through three main modules: Inspiration, Ideation, and Implementation which includes 5 phases. When you move through the 5 phases, you will move from divergent thinking (create choices) to convergent thinking (make choices).

By going through these phases in turn, you will build deep empathy with the communities (user/citizen) and individuals you are designing for, figure out how to turn what you have learned into a chance to design a new solution and co-create and test your ideas before finally putting them out into the world. You can also follow specific phase or a Method & Tool individually at your workplace to solve a problem.

Though no two Design Thinking projects are alike, you can use the same Methods and Tools for each of the phases for every project. For example, to maintain creativity and energy, you work in teams, to build deep empathy with the people you conduct interviews, to keep your ideas visual, practical and relevant, you make tangible prototypes and since you rarely get it right the first time, you share what you have made and iterate based on the feedback you get through co-creation.

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Foundation Building for Design Thinking Project

Scoping of Design Challenge 

When you want to work on real project using Design Thinking, begin the process with a specific and purposeful situation or problem to solve called Design Challenge. The Design Challenge should be doable, clear, actionable and hopefully inspiring. Your problem statement should be an outcome and not a solution.

You can use SCOPES as a tool to brainstorm and frame your problem.

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