My First Encounter with Design Thinking.

After our first session of class and after reading the information for the d.school text about Emphathy, design, ideate, prototype, and test I feel that many of the steps show in design thinking closley resemble the way we have been told to think here in many of my classes. There are however a few differences that I found interesting that really interest me. The whole Idea of focusing on Empathizing was interesting, putting yourself in the shoes of the customer or industry that you are designing a solution to would open such a better understanding of there needs and goals. Placing yourself in the shoes of someone that directly has to deal with the problem allows you to see first hand where the problem originates form and even allows you to start idaeting with your team towards solutions.

Another thing that I found interesting when reading into the 5 steps a little more was the whole idea of ideate. Which was basically the idea of creating ideas that were unique and not the typical solution to the problem. Ideate was interesting to me because in many cases constraints often limit the level of creativity to some limit but it may also force your team to look for solutions to the problem that fit within those constraints in the end creating an even more unique solution than you though was possible.

Im pretty excited to attend the farmers market tomorrow where we will practice empathy at the farmers market.