Design Thinking is a technique that can be used to lift the thinking and creativity of your students. It’s a structure to help creatively explore and solve problems.
Design thinking provides a tool kit and guide to help students and teachers approach creative problem-solving.
The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University in California, commonly known as the d.school, came up with 5 main steps to help apply a deign thinking process to solve a problem
1- Empathise
To understand and empathise with the users/stakeholders and establish what they are interested in and concerned about.
2 – Define
Defining and understanding the problem that you are aiming to solve to ensure that it is actually a problem.
3 – Ideate
Coming up with a whole lot of different solution options.
4 – Prototype
Building a potential solution that can be tested.
5 Test
Testing the solution with the users.
