Design Thinking For Technology Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annu Sible Prabhakar
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Technology Design

Materials Selection in Appropriate Technology Four Focuses in Design Thinking

2013 ◽  
Vol 789 ◽  
pp. 379-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinthias P.M. Sianipar ◽  
Husein Taufiq ◽  
Heny R. Estiningtyas ◽  
Kiyoshi Dowaki ◽  
Akbar Adhiutama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Local People ◽  
Materials Selection ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Clear Explanation ◽  
Soft Selection ◽  
Substitute Materials ◽  
Critical Process

Appropriate technology is widely recognized as a good solution in providing alternative technology for underdeveloped people who live in a very limited circumstance. However, it is often seen as an idea without clear explanation from engineering perspective. One of critical process in appropriate technology design process is materials selection. This study aims to provide applied logic for selecting materials in the design process. The logic is constructed by surveying previous notions from researchers. Reasoning techniques are explored by using design thinking. This study reveals that there are four focuses which must be applied to find sufficient materials for an appropriate technology. This study also concludes that, unlike pure engineering efforts which tend to substitute materials given in a technology design with locally available ones, appropriate technology start from existing resources to produce its design. It requires soft selection by involving local people in exploring any potential materials which already available in their own area. By looking at previous studies which tended to ignore the contribution from local people in exploring potential materials, this study embraces their involvement and then emcourages insights for further research around it.

Mobile Bodies: Reimagining Design Through a Dance Lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Merry L. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Institutional Review Board ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Creative Landscape ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Traditional Approaches

This article delves into the ways in which dance practice revises traditional approaches to assistive technology design, adding a productive dimension to current momentum in the design field at large. Based upon research with dancers who have disabilities that was approved by an Institutional Review Board, as well as practice-based research, the author examines the art of dance as a catalyst for reframing design thinking for assistive technology. Specifically, attention is drawn to the interpersonal and embodied facets of assistive technology. This research-based analysis expands the creative landscape in design thinking through attending to the disabled dancing body while carving an innovative space for dialogic intersections between the fields of dance, disability, and assistive technology design.

Creative, Convergent, and Social: Prospects for Mobile Computing

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D Wareham ◽  
Xavier Busquets ◽  
Robert D Austin
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Computing Industry ◽  
Living Labs

This paper highlights the over-arching themes salient in the rapidly converging mobile computing industry. Increasingly, the developers of mobile devices and services are looking toward exploratory, non-determinist or, user-driven development methodologies in an effort to cultivate products that consumers will consistently pay for. These include Design Thinking, Living Labs, and other forms of ethnography that embrace serendipity, playfulness, error, and other human responses that have previously rested outside the orthodoxy of technology design. Secondly, the mobile device is likely the world's foremost social computer. Mobile vendors seeking to foster the production, propagation, and consumption of content on mobile devices are increasingly viewing the challenge as a complex social phenomenon, not a merely a well-defined technology problem. Research illustrating these themes is presented.

scholarly journals A Probe into Cultivation Path of Students’ Ability in Innovative Digital Technology Design Based on Design Thinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05075
Author(s):  
Wang Meina ◽  
Wu Fan ◽  
Meng Kaining ◽  
Luo Yang
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Innovation Ability ◽  
Industry And Education ◽  
Innovative Curriculum

Having risen to the height of the future development of the country, the cultivation of innovative digital technology design talents has become the general trend of the development of the education industry of the world. How to cultivate students’ innovative ability is a huge challenge for the current education circle. Design thinking is a creative problem-solving thinking model and methodology separated from design. The Paper started with the essence of design thinking. The application and practice of all institutions on the innovation process of design thinking were analyzed, and its modes and ideas in the fields of industry, commerce, and design were combined. The innovative curriculum design was carried out based on the five foundations of the design thinking model of Stanford University, and the operability of teaching links, the iterative cycle of the process, and the effectiveness of students’ hands-on actions were emphasized. In the Paper, effective operation guidance for the cultivation of students’ innovation ability was provided. Besides, a cyclic and iterative co-creation ecosystem in colleges and universities can be built to link the integration of industry and education with digital technology design innovation. In the Paper, the “three innovations” (creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship) were focused to explore a new path to cultivate students’ ability in innovative digital technology design, which is of great significance to the cultivation of innovative talents in digital technology design, the reform of teaching forms, and teaching contents.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage through Design Thinking

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Andreescu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Urban Study ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
User Centered

The general purpose of the Design Thinking approach (concept taken over in Romanian without its translation and which involves conception-oriented thinking) is to support the conception and design of products, services, processes, strategies, spaces, architecture and experiences ideal for use optimal. Applying the approach leads to the development of practical and innovative solutions to the problems identified in the product and / or technology design departments of companies. As described in the article Design Thinking is a process springing from the user-centered conception-design paradigm. The objective of the article is to highlight the need to combine urban study within Design Thinking, in the case of all areas of conception-design of solutions.

How to Create Successful Product or Service? Introduction in Design-Thinking for Project Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Лидия Борисова ◽  
Lidia Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Value Proposition ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Management Technology ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Service Introduction

In the article author describes the definition and the process behind the project management technology – design-thinking. The uniqueness of the approach is that project management is done in close cooperation with client from problem definition, to solutions ideation and testing. The methodology allows to deliver product or service with defined value proposition.

Design Thinking as a Tool for the Analysis of Project Risks

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
E. V. Vasilieva ◽  
T. V. Gaibova
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Risk Management Process ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Project Risk Analysis

This paper describes the method of project risk analysis based on design thinking and explores the possibility of its application for industrial investment projects. Traditional and suggested approaches to project risk management have been compared. Several risk analysis artifacts have been added to the standard list of artifacts. An iterative procedure for the formation of risk analysis artifacts has been developed, with the purpose of integrating the risk management process into strategic and prompt decision-making during project management. A list of tools at each stage of design thinking for risk management within the framework of real investment projects has been proposed. The suggested technology helps to determine project objectives and content and adapt them in regards to possible; as well as to implement measures aimed at reducing these risks, to increase productivity of the existing risk assessment and risk management tools, to organize effective cooperation between project team members, and to promote accumulation of knowledge about the project during its development and implementation.The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Keynote

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne LIEDTKA
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Lens Design ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The Impact

The value delivered by design thinking is almost always seen to be improvements in the creativity and usefulness of the solutions produced. This paper takes a broader view of the potential power of design thinking, highlighting its role as a social technology for enhancing the productivity of conversations for change across difference. Examined through this lens, design thinking can be observed to aid diverse sets of stakeholders’ abilities to work together to both produce higher order, more innovative solutions and to implement them more successfully. In this way, it acts as a facilitator of the processes of collectives, by enhancing their ability to learn, align and change together. This paper draws on both the author’s extensive field research on the use of design thinking in social sector organizations, as well as on the literature of complex social systems, to discuss implications for both practitioners and scholars interested in assessing the impact of design thinking on organizational performance.

Development of JIT patient-specific implants

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne SOBEL ◽  
Katrina SKELLERN ◽  
Kat PEREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Critical System ◽  
Patient Specific Implants ◽  
Human Centred Design

Design thinking and human-centred design is often discussed and utilised by teams and organisations seeking to develop more optimal, effective or innovative solutions for better customer outcomes. In the healthcare sector the opportunity presented by the practice of human-centred design and design thinking in the pursuit of better patient outcomes is a natural alignment. However, healthcare challenges often involve complex problem sets, many stakeholders, large systems and actors that resist change. High-levels of investment and risk aversion results in the status quo of traditional technology-led processes and analytical decision-making dominating product and strategy development. In this case study we present the opportunities, challenges and benefits that including a design-led approach in developing complex healthcare technology can bring. Drawing on interviews with participants and reflections from the project team, we explore and articulate the key learning from using a design-led approach. In particular we discuss how design-led practices that place patients at the heart of technology development facilitated the project team in aligning key stakeholders, unearthing critical system considerations, and identifying product and sector-wide opportunities.

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