Reflection Of Weekly Lectures For Design Thinking

Reflection

Discuss about the Reflection of Weekly Lectures for Design Thinking.

The purpose of this report is to emphasize the facts that I have learnt in twelve weekly classes and present a critical analysis on the design it subject. I have thoroughly presented the outline of learning that I have gathered in the classes. Each paragraph in the following describes one or two weeks learning and my thoughts about the knowledge.

The very first class was like an introductory class in which I met with the professor, new friends and introduced to the topics that I was going to learn in next eleven weeks. Earlier I was unknown with the topics as it happens to everyone in a new class but after the professor introduces the topics my excitements started taking pace. All the topics were exciting and I was feeling enthusiastic to learn all those topics. The first class was about what we were about to do and professor was successful in accomplishing that and I was well aware with the grouping system, unit assessments, Moodle, reading material and rest of the things the lecturer was trying to teach us. My biggest strength was that I learnt what I have to do and I had already estimated my goals that were to represent my own design thinking innovation and problems in front of everyone.

Next class was about the concepts related to the design processes that helped me in learning that design process is an approach that could be helpful for me in problem solving capability. The concept of the class was very familiar to me or everyone in the class that was ‘human needs’ that helped me in gaining confidence of tackling the problems or obstacles that might rise in future related to the business. My biggest strength in this class was that I get to know about the categories in which the design process has been classified and that were ideate, empathize, define (the problem), test, prototype, etc. This lecture class helped me understanding how much design process can be beneficial for me in manner to jump over the obstacles that could be complex in nature or not defined properly, or it might be unknown and reach the goal that has been settled by me earlier.

Followed by these two weeks there was the arrival of new topic ‘design theory’, which nothing but the theories and models related to the underlying practices that involved in the design thinking process. I learnt about the specific nature of the design thinking and how to implement those in the real life for reflecting my own entrepreneurial innovative thoughts and designer mindsets. The biggest strength for me in this class was that I learnt how to write a blog in a correct way and how to give my reflection of critical analysis and learning over the blogs that was created by me. After that class I believed in myself that I can also write the blog and reflection writing and I have tried to put everything into this reflection report that I have learned in that class.

Class 1: Introduction to Design Thinking

After a long awaited week I again got the opportunity to learn something new that was about Design problem in which we were appreciated to learn about the facts related to the problem findings. I had also learnt about the various tools that could be beneficial in collecting the data and information related to the problem finding such as brainstorming, visualization, and spotting the obvious. My biggest strength in this class was the brainstorming that in found to be the most emphasizing tool that can be helpful in finding the problems and give them a path to be solved by certain measures in better and easy manner. I am now able to find problems that might affect in the future approaches and looking forward to practice the brainstorming tool in the real world. This class also taught me how to work in a group and I learnt how to motivate the team.

Fifth week was the most exciting class in which the lecturer taught us about the journey mapping, research analysis with respect to the competition in the market and mind mapping. Both of these activities were main strength for me in this class in which I learned about the process of analyzing the data and information related to the competitive company and compare within own innovative thoughts and ideas. Practical demonstration was very good as discussed by the lecturer however I tried match upto his level and draw an analysis report on the Samsung Company and learned how to research on any organization. Journey mapping was the crucial objective of this analysis and rest of the lectures in this class. I have learned that the main concept behind this class was establish my current practices or experiences, visualizing the experiences that might be possible and visualize the prototypes for the new idea.

All the classes where little bit independent of each other but in the earlier this week was seemed to be dependent on the fifth week. However, this was again a new learning for me which I get to know about how to create the situations by using instances of prototype based on the situation that might arise as obstacle in future. I learnt how to discriminate between the criteria related to the business and thoughts of the customers while considering the facts from both the sides of the consumers and the service or product providers. Biggest strength for me in this class was to understand the various strategies that have been involved in the prototyping that can be listed as: story boarding, story depicting, encompassing and many others.

Class 2: Design Process and Human Needs

Eighth class make me understanding the aspects of launch and the importance of processes related to the launch process. My biggest strength in this report was to understand the facts related to the unsuccessful launch and I am looking forward to not make such mistakes that could lead the launch to a failure. Brainstorming was again topic for this class that helped me indifferent way in understanding that how I can empower my innovative thoughts through considering the ideas presented by different individuals. It is very important for me to understand the importance of launch designing and launch defining for any project. Other positivity came into me when I learned about the knowledge of safe launch and related objectives that could make the launch successful. I also understand that the most important fact for a successful launch is hidden in limiting the boundaries for the launch.

This week was very important for me in the field of marketing. This lecture introduces me the overview of the market and makes me capable of conceptualizing the facts related to the usage of personas in design thinking. The biggest strength that this class provided to me is the confidence that I can now present innovative ideas that could be helpful in tackle the competitive market and bring the organization at the top in the competitive market. Another fact that was considerable according to me was the fact that customers always tend to put emphasis on understanding particularly to the concept of data. 

As we were moving forward the class become more exciting and it added my excitement when the lecturer introduces the topic for the class ‘design entrepreneurial fundraising campaigns’. This lecture provides me the knowledge of approaches that could be implemented into the fundraising events from the angle of business, grant providers (donors), crowd-funding and many other facts. The biggest learning in this class for me was ‘bootstrapping’, which was a completely new subject for me that deals with the approaches to save money which could have same value as that of cash. Another important objective of this class was the segmentation of the market into different categories that are: psychographic, geographic, and demographic.

In next two weeks I get to know about the facts related to designing myself that focuses on increasing my personality development through implementing the objective that I have been gathering from the earlier lectures. Looking backward activities was my biggest learning that I learnt from the class. Moving forward next week I learnt about the design o future in which the future aspects have been discussed by the lecturer. After these classes I am ready to implement these findings and learning in the real world.

Class 3: Design Theory and Blog Writing

Conclusion:

Based on the above reflection it can be concluded that I have reflected my learning and critical analysis of the knowledge that I have gained o these twelve weeks. Following is an action plan describing how I will implement these activities in next six months:

Action Steps	Responsibilities	Timeline	Resources	Potential Barriers
First step: Revising the lecture note thoroughly that I had created during the classes.	Making stick notes carefully	90 days	Bjögvinsson, E., Ehn, P., & Hillgren, P. A. (2012). Design things and design thinking: Contemporary participatory design challenges. Design Issues, 28(3), 101-116.	It was a very vast chapter
Second step: Collected different knowledge and data other than notes	Surfing Web	30 days	Meinel, C., & Leifer, L. (2012). Design thinking research. In Design Thinking Research (pp. 1-10). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.	There were lots of content
Third step: Learning the basic concepts about design thinking	Comparing the internet contents and class notes	15 days	Scheer, A., Noweski, C., & Meinel, C. (2012). Transforming constructivist learning into action: Design thinking in education. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 17(3).	Little complex
Fourth Step: Concluding the learning’s	Developing ideas	15 days	Pourdehnad, J., Wexler, E. R., & Wilson, D. V. (2012). Systems & design thinking: A conceptual framework for their integration. ???????? ?????????? ? ?????????? ????????, 4(6).
Fifth step: Publishing blogs	Writing a perfect blog	30 days	Kimbell, L. (2011). Rethinking design thinking: Part I. Design and Culture, 3(3), 285-306.	Language was the concern

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