Month: January 2020

This weeks content made it very clear that emotions and emotional change is a major component of design. Understanding a clients needs and wants, and the emotional implications behind those things, allows a designer to produce a quality product that meets a client requirements. This ties into the concept of “new ideas.” One design may make someone feel a certain way, positive or negative, and a designer may play off those emotions to improve a design or create a “new” design, based off an already existing design. Emotions are a part of our everyday life and if designers ignored the emotional change design cultivated nothing would be improved or created. 

This week in design thinking we delved deeper into what it means to be a design thinker and the stories as told by design. We also have a better understanding of the impact design thinking and storytelling has on us. Design thinking can be used to help children in need of medical care; it’s used to invent and improve the everyday things we use. Design thinking is a part of our daily lives, whether we realize it or not. All the processes and inventions, and future inventions to come are thanks to design thinking. It’s more important than we realize.

From this week I took away there are many steps a designer must take before even beginning the planning process. Questions, interviews, and emotions play a major role in the design process. Each design tells a different story, and that story is how a design becomes something bigger. Design thinking is also problem solving. For every problem there is a solution , and it’s the designers job to solve those problems. Every design has a different story and that is why each design is so unique.