Week 3

• Human Centred Design


  Emphasizes user needs, involving divergent and convergent thinking for solutions
• Design


  A proposal that aims to change an existing situation to a preferred situation
• Qualitative Research


  Understands people's motivations, feelings, and opinions
• Involvement of users

  Allows for expectation management and encourages ownership in the design process
• Brainstorming


  A technique to generate numerous ideas and build connections using mind maps
• User research


  Involves understanding needs, activities, experiences, and of users
• Quantitative Research


  Understands user usage patterns through numerical data
• Divergent Thinking


  Generating multiple ideas and inspirations
• Test


  Stage in design thinking where feedback is obtained from users to identify if the design can be adopted
• Prototyping


  Creating an experimental design of a new product to test ideas, concepts, and assumptions
• Prototype


  Developed to test usability and usefulness in the design thinking process
• Convergent Thinking


  Refining and narrowing down ideas
• Artefacts


  Tools and outputs produced throughout the design process
• Design Thinking


  An iterative process aiming for a solution or a better understanding of the problem space
• Affinity diagramming


  Organizing thoughts, ideas, and observations based on their relationships
• Empathise


  The first stage of the design thinking process, focusing on understanding people, their context, problems, and needs
• Ideate


  Stage in design thinking where one generates as many ideas as possible
• Role playing


  A simulation of how users will interact with the product
• Define


  Stage in design thinking where the main problem to design towards is framed and defined
• Interaction Design


  Focuses on human needs and behaviors, following a non-linear process