Courses
VART2255 Design Thinking (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- VART1006 Visual Arts Practice II or any GDCV courses offered by AVA or any Visual Arts courses
Design Thinking is an alternative action-based approach to traditional problem-solving. Put simply, it's a methodology that uses the designer's sensibility and skills to match people's needs with aesthetic, socio-cultural, economic, and technological issues for the purpose of creating a coherent guest/customer/user experience.
The process is broken down into a set of steps: (1) Understanding the problem at hand through first hand experience; (2) Researching the history of the issue including previous attempts to solve it; (3) Defining the root cause of the issue; (4) Ideating possible solutions to the problem at hand without criticism or inhibition; (5) Prototyping potential solutions to investigate the validity of ideas generated during the ideation phase; and finally (6) Testing prototypes in a repetitive fashion to determine which aspects of the design are effective and which could still be improved.
While Design Thinking is a formal methodology it is by nature based on practically and creatively exploring solutions by design. It aims at understanding people, gaining insights that can be leveraged, and experimenting your way to a solution that could be a product, a service, or an experience.