2024-25 Spring - ISDN1006 - Human-centered Innovation

Course

Description

A project-based, experiential course that exposes students to practice the five modules in design thinking - “Empathize”, “Define”, “Ideate”, “Prototype” and ‘Test”. The unmet needs will be identified by observing the daily routine of real services and people. Research on existing solutions and how to conduct the stakeholder and market analyses will be taught for designing the needs screening matrix in needs selection. Students are going to unlock their creativity potentials through the in-class activities.The new ideas of addressing the unmet needs are generated in which the ideas are grouped ad organized into a concept map. To translate a promising concept from an idea into a rudimentary design, the concept exploration is facilitated by prototyping. The prototypes are tested by the potential users. This course aims to develop students’ communication, interpersonal, analytical, design and project management skills.
Course period1/02/2530/06/25
Course levelUG
Course formatLecture