Design thinking in Engineering

Design Thinking is an iterative exercise on Inspiration, Insight, Ideation & Implementation.
Fail early, Test Often and be creative about your mistakes... never a repeated one!

1. Design Thinking in Engineering Dr. Neeta Awasthy , Director, School of Engineering & Technology, Noida International University,

2. As per NASSCOM Survey 2017

3. Some weird Questions How to make a dripless ice cream? How to add an iodine patch to all Indian women? How can we have sachets which open easily but not leak? How can we convert our TV to smart TV? How to use Petrol cars with CNG? How to convert old fittings to have an LED bulb? How to use plastic and fly ash as building material? How to leak proof our ceilings with organic material

4. Answer : Design Thinking

5. Task 1. Are you Creative? Draw your Buddy

6. How many of you think, you are creative Draw the portrait of your partner Being creative is not being artistic Ability to participate in something you are not good at Ability to show unfinished work Ability to find something you don ’ t have a clear answer to Creative confidence All these things make a team which generate Innovative Ideas This is ‘Creative Confidence’

7. Future Innovation is Problem Identification Design Thinking Radical Collaboration Real & Big Projects

8. Design Thinking: Less thinking more Doing Inspiration Insight Ideation Implementation

9. Task2: Draw to communicate Baby Door House Innovation This is Visual Shorthand Communication

10. Project: Design an IDEAL wallet for your buddy Step 0: Sketch your best idea here:

11. Innovation is a process Consisting of : Empathize Define Ideate Prototype Test

12. Empathy: Feel their feelings, mirror their experience Without judgment With beginner’s eyes With curiosity Optimistically Respectfully

13. Project Task 1: Empathize Interview1: Understand needs … as verbs Switch Interview2 Take notes Ask Why?...Why?... Why?...Why ?... Why ?... Insight 1: Response of Why is the Insight Insight2

14. Project Task2: Define Problem Statement Focus on Individuals and not on groups Take care of extreme users Else, you add so many features that is good for none.

15. If required Redo the needs & Insights and Write the Point of View statements

16. Point of view Statement: User> Needs> Insights Needs based on Insights & based on how do they want to feel DO not design for a group. No generic thing. Try using the needs of extreme user. Design for an individual COE of OXO replaced peeler with cushy Handle to address the extreme user.

17. Project Task3: Ideate: Brainstorming session around the problem statement Defer Judgment Go for many ideas One conversation only Be visual Build on the ideas of others Stay on topic Encourage wild ideas

18. Project Task4 : Prototype Sketch 5-7 radical ways of meeting your user’s needs

19. Project Task 5: & Generate Alternatives to Test Sketch the idea Share your Idea Get the feedback

20. Feedback + What went well -What went wrong ? Questions ! Ideas

21. Design a wallet: Recheck Facts (Physical/ material/color/cost/weight/brand) Form (shapes/size/texture/pockets/patterns) Function (Main use/ occasion/ storage idea/ carried) Relationship (What your partner carries in the bag that you don ’ t/ What would he or she would hate to loose/Is it the reflection of their personality)

22. To summerise Design Thinking is a User Centric Approach. It is less about thinking and more about doing. It is : People Centric – empathy is the key Highly Creative-Integrative thinking is the key Hands-On – Failure is a necessary part of the process Iterative- A cycle of “ Understand>Create>Learn

23. Making of a coconut cutter

24. Comparative Action Task: Video Chat Whatsup Hangout Duo Zoom FaceTime

25. Learning Management System Administrative Reporting Single sign in sign on Assessment Tools Built in(subjective and objective) Authentication & Security Authoring - Courses Authoring - Storyboarding Certification Management Attendance management Live online class Recording of online class Discussion form Notification content upload Support desktop Course Catalog Coursework Grading Post grades to students Assigning student to a course Student should be able to track his performance in all of the modules he is assigned to eLearning Management Assignment posting and submission 

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