Development of Design Thinking
Type: For the student's choice
Department: social pedagogy and social work
Curriculum
Semester | Credits | Reporting |
6 | 3 | Setoff |
Lectures
Semester | Amount of hours | Lecturer | Group(s) |
6 | 16 | Associate Professor Loboda Viktoriya |
Practical
Semester | Amount of hours | Group | Teacher(s) |
6 | 16 | Associate Professor Loboda Viktoriya |
Course description
The educational discipline is designed as a training course and is aimed at developing students’ design thinking skills as a user-oriented method of creative problem-solving in cooperation, as well as a set of views, attitudes, and way of thinking. The practice of design thinking is best implemented in cross-functional teams with diverse experience. Stages of design thinking include: research, idea generation, visualization and storytelling, prototyping, testing and refinement.
The purpose of the course is to acquaint students with a modern view of design thinking as a creative way of solving problems aimed at creating non-standard solutions and innovations.
Objectives of the course is to promote the development of creative thinking skills of a young person able to achieve professional and personal goals.
Recommended Literature
- de Bono. Lateral thinking: creativity step-by-step. – 2014.
- Kelley T., Kelley D. Creative Confidence. Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All. – Harper Collins Publishers, 2015.
- Solving problems with design thinking: ten stories of what works / Liedtka J., King A., Bennett K. – New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
- The right way to lead design thinking / Bason C., Austin R.D. // Harward Business Review, March-April 2019.
- Richardson, A. (2010). Using customer journey maps to improve customer experience, Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 14 January 2024 from https://hbr.org/2010/11/using-customer-journey-maps-to
- This is design thinking [website]. Retrieved 14 January 2023 from http://thisisdesignthinking.net/
- A Guide through Design Thinking. URL: https://platfor.ma/specials/bydesign/
- Design Thinking for Innovation [e-course]. URL: https://courses.prometheus.org.ua/courses/course-v1:Prometheus+DTI101+2017_T3/about
- User Testing. Design Thinking for Product Teams: how to leverage human insight at every stage of the development cycle (2023)
- Video: User Testing. Human Insight (2023)