What Next with Design Thinking?
Further Study with Design Thinking At the Waikato Institute of Technology., in Hamilton, New Zealand we offer the following courses: A 15 credit level 6 Design Thinking launchpad where we …
Course: The Design Thinking Toolbox
What is Design Thinking?
Before we explain Design Thinking, let’s see what people have to say about it. Have a read through the following quotes which are from Curedale (2016): Design Thinking is an …
Prototyping – what is it and what sort of mindset should we have?
Welcome to the final week of The Design Thinking Toolbox, and congratulations on making it this far! This week we will continue the design thinking toolbox with common tools used …
Summary of the Design Thinking Toolbox
Congratulations. Over the last 3 weeks you have learnt about some of the tools we use commonly with the Design Thinking Process, in particular Stanfords d.school Design Thinking process, Empathy, …
User Testing – what it is and the mindset to have
User testing mindsets User testing – the fifth stage of the Design Thinking process – helps to improve a design to make it more usable. Real users are asked for …
The Design Thinking Toolbox Outline and expectations
Welcome to the course. It is really exciting to have you here as part of another Design Thinking course offered by us at Design Factory New Zealand, WINTEC, New Zealand. …
Making sense of user testing feedback
In the video I talk through three tools that are useful for capturing and analysing feedback from a user test. Experiment Grid – a useful tool to define, document and …
About Te Pukenga – the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
Te Pukenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology Te Pukenga is Aotearoa New Zealands institute of skills and technology. There are 16 subsidiaries throughout New Zealand all providing …
How to run a usability test
Key plan for usability testing Once we have something to test, we need to know how to test it. We can go out and test at any time, but a …
Ideate with Lotus and SCAMPER
The Lotus The lotus is a creativity technique used for idea generation. It does this through the use of a visual representation of ideas that is similar to a mind …
Ideate Overview and Mindset
Ideation is the third stage of the Design Thinking process. In this stage we brainstorm solutions to our challenge – in particular to the How Might We questions we generated …
Personas
Persona Personas are a powerful storytelling device to help your stakeholders understand the users within your challenge. Once created personas can be used throughout the design thinking process – and …
Define Overview and Mindset
Welcome back to week 2 of The Design Thinking Toolbox. This week we will continue the design thinking toolbox with common tools used within the Define and Ideate stages. The …
Affinity Mapping
Affinity Map An affinity map is a method used to organise many ideas into groups with common themes. It is a great way to cluster secondary (facts and figures) with …
Reflect on this week and looking forward to next week.
Congratulations for completing week 1 of the Design Thinking Toolbox. This week we have reintroduced ourselves to the Design Thinking process and read two case studies which used some of …