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Month: January 2020

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Week Two Cards

In this week’s reading material and video we covered some pretty big themes. In The Shape of Design the author discussed how as designers we must remember to create with love, and to believe in the product you’re creating. The chapter also posed the idea that good design will not only serve the heart through aesthetics but also the mind through functionality. In Tim Brown’s TED talk, Designers – Think Big!, he reminded us that at the core of design are humans, and to design well we need to bring in culture and context. In Design Is Storytelling the author talks about how action can and should drive design. Along with that, asking what action a product will create, will result in a proper user and product interACTION.

In this week’s reading material and video we covered some pretty big themes. In The Shape of Design the author discussed how as designers we must remember to create with love, and to believe in the product you’re creating. The chapter also posed the idea that good design will not only serve the heart through aesthetics but also the mind through functionality. In Tim Brown’s TED talk, Designers – Think Big!, he reminded us that at the core of design are humans, and to design well we need to bring in culture and context. In Design Is Storytelling the author talks about how action can and should drive design. Along with that, asking what action a product will create, will result in a proper user and product interACTION.

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Week three cards

In this week’s required reading and watching we read pages from Design is Storytelling where the author discussed how emotion plays into design. Creating something that provokes emotion will give the user a connection to the product and hopefully a memory. A good design is not flat. A helpful way to create an emotional response with a product is practicing empathy for your user. Ask about your user’s experiences, about who they are, and what makes them that way. We also read chapter four of The Shape of Design where the author discussed how our bodies are connected to our minds, and therefore if our minds need to wander then we should physically wander as well. From Design Thinking Bootleg there was emphasis on prototyping and how to do it correctly. It advised to create a prototype quickly, at a low quality and to test it on many people. Throughout the readings and video there were many similarities wrapping around the steps of design thinking: finding a problem, empathizing, ideate, prototype, and implement for sustainability.

In this week’s required reading and watching we read pages from Design is Storytelling where the author discussed how emotion plays into design. Creating something that provokes emotion will give the user a connection to the product and hopefully a memory. A good design is not flat. A helpful way to create an emotional response with a product is practicing empathy for your user. Ask about your user’s experiences, about who they are, and what makes them that way. We also read chapter four of The Shape of Design where the author discussed how our bodies are connected to our minds, and therefore if our minds need to wander then we should physically wander as well. From Design Thinking Bootleg there was emphasis on prototyping and how to do it correctly. It advised to create a prototype quickly, at a low quality and to test it on many people. Throughout the readings and video there were many similarities wrapping around the steps of design thinking: finding a problem, empathizing, ideate, prototype, and implement for sustainability.

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Week One Cards

This week’s material that we covered focused heavily on the design thinking process, as well as asking “why?” when tackling a problem, and how design done right could be seen as storytelling. With one of my cards I drew a picture representing the traits a good designer has. These traits were collaboration, optimism, empathy, integrative thinking, and experimentalism. I liked this insight from Design Thinking by Tim Brown because he went into detail about what a designer needs to be. I really enjoyed the Design and Thinking documentary. From that I took the idea that design is not design thinking. Design thinking is more of the creative process it takes to solve a problem, while design is focused more on the aesthetics of a product.

This week’s material that we covered focused heavily on the design thinking process, as well as asking “why?” when tackling a problem, and how design done right could be seen as storytelling. With one of my cards I drew a picture representing the traits a good designer has. These traits were collaboration, optimism, empathy, integrative thinking, and experimentalism. I liked this insight from Design Thinking by Tim Brown because he went into detail about what a designer needs to be. I really enjoyed the Design and Thinking documentary. From that I took the idea that design is not design thinking. Design thinking is more of the creative process it takes to solve a problem, while design is focused more on the aesthetics of a product.

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Hello !

Post author By matulewj
Post date January 9, 2020
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This is my blog where I’ll be posting weekly note cards for my Design Thinking and Process Innovation course!