Design Thinking

What is the purpose of Empathy in Design Thinking?

• To make people feel better about their problems

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  To gain a deep understanding of end-users' needs and context

• To analyse only quantitative data

Reorder the following stages of Design Thinking

• Test

• Empathy

• Define

• Ideate

• Prototype

Answer explanation

While Design Thinking may be completed in this order, sometimes people will move backwards and forwards, even skipping stages, as needed. However, it is always key to start with Empathy BEFORE Ideate.

____ is the stage where you experiment - you ask potential users to give feedback on your prototype.

Early prototypes should be ....

• High quality

• Fast and inexpensive

• Time-consuming to create

• Perfect - like the final product

You should only ever complete each stage of Design Thinking once.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

You may complete one or more stages of Design Thinking several times. Especially in cases where the final product, service or solution is expensive and time-consuming to create.

Ideate involves using ​ (a)   and strategies to generate​ (b)   solution ideas.​ ​

• multiple
• tools

How do you feel about the Design Thinking model? Please describe in 1-2 words.