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Which activity best exemplifies a Design Thinking workshop?

  • A collective activity only.
  • A mix of individual & collective activities. (correct)
  • An individual activity only.
  • Presenting a lecture.

What is the primary goal of developing a low-fidelity prototype in the early stages of Design Thinking?

  • Test fast and fail cheap. (correct)
  • Validate final concepts among your target audience.
  • Assess the technical feasibility of the solution.
  • Create a visually appealing demonstration for stakeholders.

During which stage(s) of the Design Thinking process is it appropriate to interview target users?

  • Yes. (correct)
  • No.

When conducting usability testing of a new prototype, what is a generally recommended number of users to interview per persona to identify the primary usability issues?

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A team using Design Thinking has generated over 100 ideas during the Ideation phase. What is the most effective next step?

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As a consultant, how can you assist a team struggling to 'think outside the box' during a brainstorming session?

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The principle of collaborative design is most closely associated with which individual?

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Is professional training in design mandatory to effectively practice design thinking?

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In the context of design thinking, how does developing product features specifically improve services for customers?

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When applying the comprehensive principles of design thinking, which element is LEAST likely to be directly included?

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In the empathy stage of design thinking, what is the primary goal?

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Which of the following sequences accurately represents the established steps of the Design Thinking process?

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How does design thinking primarily contribute to organizational improvement?

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Several prominent consulting firms offer Design Thinking as a solution. What benefit does this provide to companies?

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What is the MOST important characteristic of a prototype in the design thinking process?

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Which approach is generally discouraged during the user testing phase of the Empathy stage?

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A virtual team is characterized by team members working:

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Which action most effectively demonstrates organizational readiness for strategic innovation?

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Innovation is best defined as:

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Under what conditions does innovation provide only a temporary competitive advantage?

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Which of the following best describes the role of internal stakeholders in a company?

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In design thinking, what is the primary goal of collaboration?

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The scope of Strategic Innovation encompasses which of the following key elements?

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A company is launching a new product. How could a customer journey map assist the design thinking process?

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What is the MOST important reason for providing an introduction at the beginning of a design thinking workshop?

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How do closing remarks in a design thinking workshop primarily benefit participants?

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Integrating Design Thinking into strategic innovation involves which of the following activities relating to user needs and solutions?

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Why is design thinking often referred to as 'Human Centered Design'?

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When building a customer journey map, why is it important to interview multiple customers rather than just one?

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During the design thinking process, after empathizing with users, what is the NEXT crucial step?

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An apparel company owner who designs clothes specifically for typical consumers rather than models is primarily engaging in:

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In the design thinking process, who is the most appropriate group to test prototypes with and why?

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In which phase of the design thinking process would you engage experts to deepen your understanding of specific problem areas?

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A designer aiming to create a new type of bed for nursing home patients avoids interacting with older adults or people with disabilities. According to the design thinking process, what critical element is the designer missing?

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Though often presented as a linear process, design thinking is more accurately described as:

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What is the MOST direct purpose of the 'Test' stage in design thinking?

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At what stage of the design thinking process is a prototype presented to an authentic audience for their feedback?

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What type of information is MOST valuable to gather when testing a prototype during the 'Test' stage of design thinking?

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Which of the following sequences most accurately describes the order of steps in the problem-solving process?

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What does 'Ideate' mean in the context of design thinking?

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How does design thinking relate to the success of products?

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Which type of thinking is most effective for refining a broad range of ideas into a focused, actionable solution?

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Besides 'Design Thinking', what other term encapsulates a similar approach to problem-solving and innovation?

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How does design thinking align with traditional project management methodologies?

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In the prototype phase of a product, what is the primary objective when assessing the working and non-working components of an idea?

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Flashcards

Design Thinking

A method that aids in product development, strategy creation, and process improvement.

Design Considerations

Design considerations are broadly linked with products, services, and busines, but not with computers.

Design Thinkers

People, employees and managers within an organization

Design Thinking & Product Features

It supports developing product features to improve services to customers.

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Comprehensive Principle of Design Thinking

Relationship, collaboration and communication.

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Communication Skills

Speaking, writing and visual.

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Empathy in Design Thinking

Identifying from the perspective of the product.

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Design Thinking Process Steps

Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test

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Convergent Thinking

A method to narrow down ideas to reach a final solution.

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Agile methodology

An iterative and incremental method for managing development and design.

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Goal of the Prototype Phase

To understand what components of your idea worked and didn't work.

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BPM

Business Process Management

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Waterfall Methodology Sequence

Define->Design->Develop->Test->Deploy.

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Virtual Team Location

Working remotely, not in a shared physical space.

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Innovation

The commercialization of a new product or process.

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When does innovation provide a temporary competitive advantage?

When barriers to imitation are low and intellectual property rights are hard to enforce.

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Scope of Strategic Innovation

Managed Innovation, Strategic Alignment, and Industry Foresight.

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Integrating Design Thinking

Reviewing, Simulating, and Conversing.

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Design Thinking Process

A non-linear process, where steps are repeated and refined.

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Low-fidelity prototype objective?

A fast, inexpensive way to test ideas and uncover potential issues early in the design process.

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Interview users at any step?

Yes, user interviews are valuable throughout the entire Design Thinking process to gather insights and feedback.

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How many users per persona?

Interviewing around 5 people per persona is generally sufficient to identify the main usability issues in a prototype.

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First step with 100+ ideas?

Categorizing ideas is a useful first step to organize and make sense of a large number of ideas generated during ideation.

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Team struggling to ideate?

Suggest new brainstorming techniques or remind the team of the problem statement to help overcome creative blocks.

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Who bought collaborative design?

Steve Jobs adopted a collaborative design philosophy.

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Design training needed?

False. Design Thinking is a methodology that can be learned and applied by anyone, regardless of their professional background.

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Prototype stage benefits?

The Prototype stage permits the design team to break testing down into smaller, more manageable portions.

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Internal Stakeholders

Individuals or groups within a company that can directly or indirectly affect a task or project.

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Customer Journey Map

A visual representation of a customer's experiences with a product or service over time.

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Uses of a Customer Journey Map

Understanding customer experiences, identifying emotional responses, and pinpointing problem areas.

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Human-Centered Design

An approach to problem-solving that prioritizes the needs and perspectives of the people involved.

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Customer Interview Group Size

A smaller group of target users, not just one person.

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Testing Prototypes

Obtain feedback from target audience by allowing them to use the prototype, and giving their opinions of it.

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Problem-Solving Order

The sequence of solving a real-world problem. Define, Prepare, Try, Reflect.

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Prototyping

Creating a tangible representation of an idea or solution.

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Learning Outcomes

Specific statements that describe what students will know, understand, and be able to do as a result of a learning experience.

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Introduction Importance

Engaging participants through introductions is crucial for a productive session.

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Closing Remarks Impact

Concluding remarks can inspire participants to implement design thinking principles.

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Strategic Innovation Collaboration

Involves all members of the organization to find shared solutions for complex problems.

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Organizational Readiness

An organization's willingness to accept and adapt to changes in its processes and capabilities.

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Design Process: Test

The last stage of the design process, involving evaluating solutions.

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Empathize Stage

Consulting experts to deepen the understanding of challenges and experiences during the Design Thinking Process

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Design Process: Empathize

The initial phase of Design Thinking, centered on understanding user needs and motivations.

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Study Notes

  • Design Thinking supports developing the product, strategy, and process.
  • Design considerations link with products, services, and business.
  • The Design Thinker includes people, employees, and managers in an organization.
  • Design thinking supports developing product features to improve customer service.
  • Comprehensive Principle of Design Thinking includes relationship, collaboration, and communication.
  • Comprehensive Principle of Design Thinking does not include suppliers.
  • Communication Skills include speaking, writing, and visual representation.
  • In the stages of design thinking, empathy means identifying from the perspective of the employees.

Design Thinking Process Steps

  • The steps are Empathize > Define > Ideate > Prototype > Test.

  • Design Thinking is not a linear process.

  • Design Thinking typically helps in innovation.

  • McKinsey & Co, BCG, and Bain & Co offer Design Thinking as a solution.

Prototyping

  • The objective is to have people interacting with the product.
  • Interviewing to get concise answers is NOT a good interview practice for user testing in the Empathy step.

Brainstorming Sessions

  • They are a mix of individual and collective activities.
  • The objective of a low-fidelity prototype is to test fast and fail cheap.
  • It's recommended target users be interviewed at any step of the Design Thinking approach.
  • The more persons per Persona the better to detect the main usability issues when testing a new prototype.

Ideation

  • A team in the Ideation step with over 100 ideas should first prototype some of these ideas.
  • It is helpful to give feedback about ideas like highlighting the good ones already proposed to the team.

Collaborative Design

  • Henry Ford and Steve Jobs bought a collaborative design philosophy.
  • Having professional training in design isn't necessary to become a design thinker.

Design Thinking Stages

  • The Prototype stage of design thinking enables better management by allowing the design team to break testing down into smaller chunks.
  • The test stage of design thinking allows tweaks by observing and talking to customers, you can learn whether your product hits the mark.

Virtual Teams

  • The characteristic location is remotely.
  • Innovation is defined as the commercialization of a new product or process.

Innovation Advantages

  • Innovation can provide a temporary competitive advantage when barriers to imitation are low and intellectual property rights are difficult to enforce.

Strategic Innovation Scope

  • Strategic Innovation include Managed Innovation, Strategic Alignment, and Industry Foresight.

Integrating Design Thinking

  • Integrating Design thinking in strategic innovation includes reviewing, simulating, and conversing.

Mr. Anil's Clothing Company

  • Mr. Anil is engaging in design thinking by planning his designs around the end user.

  • Mr. Ravi will face problems due to missing Empathy.

  • Design Thinking is an iterative process.

  • Design thinking can accelerate effectiveness for companies.

Empathize

  • The Empathize step involves addressing who and understanding the target market.
  • Internal stakeholders are people or groups that affect the company or organization and can be employees, business units, or top management.

Customer Journey Maps

  • These is a typical journey of a customer who goes through a certain experience.
  • The map is gives the design thinkers a near first-hand experience of what a customer goes through. Also the map can give us the emotional roller coaster of the user. A list of problems also serves as a visual aid to communicate the situation of the user

Design Thinking Alt Names

  • Also called human-centered design.
  • A customer journey map involve multiple customer interviews
  • It is recommended to test out prototypes with target customers.

Interaction with Prototypes

  • Feedback should be obtained during the test step when an authentic audience interacts with the prototype.

Problem Solving

  • The usual order is Define, Prepare, Try, Reflect.

Interactive idea Presentation

  • It is created in the Prototype step.
  • Ideate means the process for creating and sharing ideas where images and sketches are used instead of words.
  • The various stages of design thinking are not fixed and linear.
  • Stages of a design thinking workshop include a planning stage and a workshop stage.
  • Learning Goals in design thinking workshop are related to understanding the culture of the organization.
  • Providing an introduction is important to engage participants during the design thinking workshop.
  • Closing remarks support motivating participants to apply design thinking concepts at the workplace.
  • Collaboration in design thinking for strategic innovation includes working with all members of the organization for shared solutions.
  • Readiness means changing innovation processes.

Design Process Final step

  • The process culminates in the Test phase.
  • Consulting experts happens during the Empathize stage to gain understanding of other's experiences.

Gathering Needs

  • Done in the Empathize stage.

Interviewing People

  • It should be undertaken during the Empathize stage.
  • Testing allows consumers to test a product or service.

Feedback Collection

  • Is an important portion of the testing phase

Design Thinking Defined

  • Defining, framing, and solving problems from users' perspectives is core to design thinking.
  • The process is Empathize > Define > Ideate > Prototype > Test.

Top firms associated with Design Thinking

  • Ideo is the most associated

Innovation helps

  • Its most useful for innovation itself

Incorrect facts

  • That Google uses a 3 step innovation process
  • Design thinking is not a linear process.
  • Simplicity is not one of the profiles of the design thinker Empathy is a top leadership quality
  • Design sensibilities are a combination of design features, qualities, and aesthetics.

statements about design thinking

  • Individuals, teams, and organizations must have a leap of faith about the existence of a solution to derive the power of design thinking.
  • Design thinking is a convergence-divergence process.

College Websites should at least have?

  • Information about courses
  • Information for a problem statement comes from the Empathize Stage.

This product maybe has a design issue?

  • It will not be comfortable for the user.
  • Prototyping & Testing was skipped in the design process.
  • Designers forgot to ask how much space is needed per person.
  • It is a poor interview strategy to encourage short answers that get right to the point.

Define Step

  • Not an aspect to define as many solutions as possible to our problem
  • POV should be made at the define step
  • A prototype should not only demonstrated and tested within the team
  • Also the client provides the initial design brief.
  • A problem statement should not include the solution.
  • Design thinking can be applied in other professions.
  • In the empathize phase we address who we are creating the product for?
  • Prototyping is is a step in the design-thinking process.
  • The element of User Experience Design the design strategy falls under Experience strategy.
  • User-experience design also involves look and feel of a product and its presentation No alterations are to be made in the design after testing phase
  • prototypes are used to help handle and visualize
  • Design brief given by the client cannot be modified All of above are goals of design thinking

what is design thinking

  • design thinking provides a solution based to problem in the delivery phase we
  • Everything to do with products that succeed. what is the way to narrow down the thoughts to reach at the final solution
  • Everything to do with products that succeed.

convergent vs divergent

  • Convergent thinking is the way to be sure to narrow down the thoughts to reach at the final solution

A prototype and the goal

  • All of them are the goal or prototypes Empathetic is crucial

Design Thinking Key

  • defining the problem is key
  1. The winning design is typically that which most closely meets the design brief and need need not necessary adhere to budget and timeline

High Level Model

High level models is a sitemap MVP

  • Minimum viable product
  • continuous iterations can take place in the prototype Defining what design thinking really is 1 What is Design Thinking?:A process for creative problem solving 2 -Profit-centric-Which of the following principles are not considered for design thinking? To empathize, one has to
  • All of the above

NOT Visualization Tools

4.Which of the following are NOT tools of visualization

  • Stories
  • Not a great type of story telling
  • Visual Feedback
  • You allow consumers to test a product or service. Mind maps are used to
  • all ideas a. Generate b. Visualize c. Structure d. All of the above Journey mapping is also called
  • experience

NO Tools For design thinking

  • Online markiting is not a tool for design thinking

a NO Component of a mind map

A component of a mind map a. Branches b. Arrows c. Central Idea d. All of the above are components

Jounrey mapping

  • All of the above

Identifying Needs

  • Experience mapping Partners to make improvements
  • *All of the above Prototype is
  • both test and validate grounded is the most sure
  • Learnings helps identify
  • that is true Model is the correct definition -Prototype To Ideate is
  • To test some ideas Empathetic
  • The Empathize Stage Case Study- a. a research strategy b. an empirical inquiry c. a descriptive and exploratory analysis d. All of the above Bad -
  • Encourage short answers that get right to the point.

Defining the Problem

  • define as many solutions
  • *empathy step
  • to demonstrate and test only the team prototypes

User Research

  • First you design

No Modifications Design

  • false after you research you iterate

Visualization

  • Help clients visualized design

  • Agile Methodology

  • *Help clients visualized design

  • All are the goals of the phase and product

  • A sitemap is a true statement MVP

  • Minimum viable product

Phase

  • *Help clients visualized design

BPM

  • Business product managers

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