Wednesday 16 September 2020

Design Thinking, a 6-session module

This is an outline of a six-session module on Design Thinking I am teaching for an executive MBA program (PGPEX VLFM) Program at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. 

 

Date

Focus

Resources / Reading

1

17-Sep-20

Thursday


slides

Introduction to Design Thinking

 

Topics: DT as a process, 3 core elements of DT


2

18-Sep-20

Friday

slides

Empathy tools

 

Topics: Role of empathy, Empathic interviews, Empathy-map, Journey map

 

3

24-Sep-20

Thursday

slides

Challenge framing

 

Topics: Metaphoric thinking, Challenge framing using metaphors

4

25-Sep-20

Friday

slides

Idea generation & selection

 

Topics: Problem solving approaches – system centric, problem-centric, solution-centric and solver-centric

5

1-Oct-20

Thursday

slides

Rapid prototyping

 

Topics: Feels-like prototypes, looks-like prototypes, works-like prototypes

6

2-Oct-20

Friday

Idea presentation