Design Thinking Notes

 19EID132: DESIGN THINKING
B.Tech - students
(Click here for Materials)

Design is a realization of a concept or idea into a configuration, drawing or a product. Design Thinking is cognitive and practical processes by which design concepts are developed by designers. Innovation is a new idea or a new concept. Product development is the creation of a new or different product that offers new benefits to the end user. This course introduces the design thinking in product innovation.

Course Objectives:

• To familiarize product design process
• To introduce the basics of design thinking
• To bring awareness on idea generation
• To familiarize the role of design thinking in services design

Course outcomes:

After completing this course, the student will be able to

• Innovate new methods in product development.
• Apply design thinking in developing the new designs.
• Select ideas from ideation methods in new product development.
• Use design thinking in developing software products.
• Apply principles of design thinking in service design. 

Unit 1

Introduction to design, characteristics of successful product development, product development process, identification of opportunities, product planning, Innovation in product development.

Learning outcomes:

After completing this unit, the student will be able to

• identify characteristics of successful product development.
• Identify opportunities for new product development.
• plan for new product development

Unit 2

Design Thinking: Introduction, Principles, the process, Innovation in Design Thinking, benefits of Design thinking, design thinking and innovation, case studies.

Learning outcomes:

After completing this unit, the student will be able to

• Explain the principles of Design Thinking.
• Identify the benefits of Design Thinking.
• use innovations in Design Thinking

Unit 3

Idea generation: Introduction, techniques, Conventional methods, Intuitive methods, Brainstorming, Gallery method, Delphi method, Synectics etc, Select ideas from ideation methods, case studies.

Learning outcomes:

After completing this unit, The student will be able to

• Explain the techniques in idea generation.
• Select ideas from ideation methods.
• Identify the methods used in idea generation in some case studies

Unit 4

Design Thinking in Information Technology, Design Thinking in Business process model, Design Thinking for agile software development, virtual collaboration, multi user and multi account interaction, need for communication, TILES toolkit, Cloud implementation.

Learning outcomes:

After completing this unit, the student will be able to

• Use design thinking in business process model.
• Apply design thinking for Agile software development.
• use TILES toolkit

Unit 5

Design thinking for service design: How to design a service, Principles of service design, Benefits of service design, Service blueprint, Design strategy, organization, principles for information design, principles of technology for service design.

Learning outcomes:

After completing this unit, the student will be able to

• Use principles of service design.
• Explain the benefits of service design.
• Apply principles of technology for service design.

Books:

    1.   Pahl, Beitz, Feldhusen, Grote – Engineering Design: a systematic approach, Springer, 2007
2.   Christoph Meinel and Larry Leifer, Design Thinking, Springer, 2011
3.   Aders Riise Maehlum - Extending the TILES Toolkit – from Ideation to Prototyping
4.   http://www.algarytm.com/it-executives-guide-to-design-thinking:e-book.
5.   Marc stickdorn and Jacob Schneider, This is Service Design Thinking, Wiely, 2011