Design Thinking Skills Course in Kenya

Design Thinking is a mindset and a human-centred process of finding suitable solutions to complex problems to get the desired outcome. This method is used to figure out unknown problems by understanding human needs. It’s a solution-focused method to, actively, build up to a preferred result. It induces logic, creativity, intuition, and systemic reasoning, to examine possibilities.

The Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford is said to be the leading university when it comes to design. They proposed five (5) stages to Design Thinking. These stages are Empathizing, Defining the Problem, Ideating, Prototyping, and, Testing. They also emphasized that the process doesn’t always follow a linear course in actual applications. It could be that during the later stages, there will be a need to revert to the first or second stage of the design process.

This mindset revolves around what can be done to improve or help the community, the client, and, generally, anybody with a problem. The question, “What can I do to help?” is often in mind. Unlike, deductive reasoning where the top is always right, design thinking allows one to explore problems individually and not just to address as a whole.

Ergonomics is a field of science involved in human and machine interaction. Ergonomists study and evaluate the operator’s comfort and safety to improve their working environment. They considerably use their Design Thinking skills to find solutions and improve the operator’s overall health and productivity. There are plenty more fields using these skills besides Ergonomics. Building up these skills will positively affect one’s way of life and the lives of others.

This course will introduce individuals to Design Thinking. It will serve as a guide to build up the mindset and get involved in the community or the workplace.

This Design Thinking Skills Training Course in Kenya workshop is ideal for anyone who would like to gain a strong grasp and improve their Design Thinking Skills.

The ideal group size for this Design Thinking Skills course in Kenya is:

The duration of this Design Thinking Skills Training Course in Kenya workshop is 2 full days. Knowles Training Institute Kenya will also be able to contextualised this workshop according to different durations; 3 full days, 1 day, half day, 90 minutes and 60 minutes.

Below is the list of course benefits of our Design Thinking Skills course in Kenya

1. Improve creativity in tackling problems.
2. Boost teamwork and collaboration to figure out solutions.
3. Increase social and cultural awareness from citing possible people-oriented problems encountered.
4. Raise morale and self-confidence after testing and implementing solutions.
5. Improve adaptability to changing situations and solutions.
6. Develop an initiative to reach out and provide a solution to problems.

Below is the list of course objectives of our Design Thinking Skills course in Kenya

1. Recognize issues in the workplace, community or surroundings.
2. Interact with the people affected.
3. List down their prominent concerns.
4. Break down issues to work with detailed pointers.
5. Investigate possible ways to improve the issues.
6. List ideas gathered to resolve the problem.
7. Compare ideas to come up with the most suitable solution.
8. Explain selected or resulting conclusion from the collaboration.
9. Create a prototype or proposal based on the study.
10. Present the prototype and proposal to the people involved.
11. Evaluate the effect of the proposal to the people involved.
12. Review the conclusion from the feedback received from the people involved.
13. Improve proposal for implementation.

Below is the list of course content of our Design Thinking Skills course in Kenya

1. What is Design Thinking?
2. What are the benefits of having a Design Thinking mindset?
3. How do you implement the stages of Design Thinking?
4. How do you recognize a problem in the community, workplace, or your surroundings?
5. What are the tools to be used to gather information from the people involved?
6. Design Thinking Applications.
7. Design Thinking Companies.
8. Community Involvement.
9. Group discussion to come up with appropriate conclusions.
10. How do you test the Design Thinking solution?
11. When does the reviewing process of the Design Thinking solution end?

Each participant will receive the following materials for the Design Thinking Skills course in Kenya

Design Thinking Skills Course in Kenya Learner’s Guide

Design Thinking Skills Course in Kenya Handouts

Design Thinking Skills Course in Kenya PPT Slides Used During Course

Each course participant will receive a certification of training completion

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1. What is the meaning of design thinking?

Design Thinking is an iterative method where we seek to understand the user, challenges, and redefine issues in an attempt to identify alternative approaches and solutions that might not be directly apparent with our first level of understanding. Design Thinking gives a solution-based method for solving problems. It is a way of thinking and operating, as well as a compilation of hands-on techniques. Design Thinking rotates around a deep interest in advancing an understanding of the people for whom we are designing the goods or services. It assists us to observe and form empathy with the target user.

2. What is an example of design thinking?

Design thinking is a component of Airbnb’s success. They built a culture of experimentation. They mentioned that it was only when they allowed themselves to experiment with non-scalable changes to their business that they improved. 

3. What are the steps of design thinking?

When analyzing the five steps of Design Thinking, it’s crucial to remember that it is not a linear process.

• Empathize: It starts with empathy. You need to understand what your uses need and who they are. What is their expectation?
• Define: After compiling your findings from the first stage, piece them together. Are there patterns to observe? What challenges regularly came up?
• Ideate: Come up with possible solutions to the above challenges.
• Test: Observe your users as they interact with your prototype. Gather feedback on how they feel. How can you use this data to improve?

4. Why is it called design thinking?

Design thinking was created not solely because Tim Brown coined the word that became a buzzword. There is a legitimate reason for it. It was created because big corporations were unable to be creative and, in extreme cases, they were not able to develop new goods and services that meet the unmet requirements of their customers.

5. What are the applications of design thinking?

Design thinking finds its application over numerous professions. From sports, education, research to business, management, and design, design thinking is commonly used by specialists around the globe. It is halfway between analytical and intuitive thinking. Analytical thinking involves purely deductive logic and inductive logical that employ quantitative methods to come to outcomes. However, intuitive thinking applies to knowing something without any reasoning.

6. What is the purpose of design thinking?

Design thinking has a human-centered focus. It assists organizations to concentrate on the people they’re creating for, which points to better products, services, and internal methods. When you start to create a solution for a business need, the first question should always be what the human need behind it is.

7. How do you use design thinking in everyday life?

Design Thinking is not limited to designers. In fact, everyone can learn to understand design thinking.

Here are 3 (three) ways to implement Design Thinking in your daily life.

• Visualize your problem: The ability to do this will help you see your problems better and how to come up with solutions
• Question everything: This approach will help you break down assumptions and begin with devising ideas.
• Reverse your thinking: This of your problems in reverse and not as a significant roadblock. E.g.,: Instead of thinking how to appeal to your target audience, think about how to ensure the target audience will never be exposed to your brand. This could help give you ideas.

8. How do organizations use design thinking?

Organizations embraced design thinking for several reasons, not just innovation. Some plans were developed out of past initiatives that had failed; others arrived as a result of management’s disappointment that the organization was negligent and bureaucratic; others to improve communication with customers, to promote collaboration, or to attract and engage talent. Some had these goals and more.

9. What does design thinking help you achieve?

The overall purpose of design thinking is to help you design more reliable products, services, strategies, architecture, experiences and more. Design thinking will assist you, and your team develop practical and innovative solutions for your issues.

10. How do you ensure that design thinking is taking place in business?

Here are several ways you can ensure that design thinking is taking place in your business.

• Creating a roadmap for the future
• Identify the right problems
• Team collaboration & innovation
• Deep understanding of customers
• Staying ahead of competition
• Getting more opportunities
• Clarity in meetings
• Improving customer experience
• Launching products & services
• Sales interactions

11. What is the most important skill of a design thinking leader?

Design Thinking leaders concentrate on developing the best goods and services for their clients and operating with the experiences and views of subordinates.

Top Qualities Of A Design Thinking Leader

• Empathetic
• Collaborative
• Ability to learn from failure
• Experimental

12. What are the three core factors in the design thinking process model?

The quality of the design thinking process contributes to feeding the innovation inside the company as achieving change requires the consideration of three main factors.

• User desirability: the goods should satisfy the consumer’s requirements and needs through resolving their everyday issues using a user-centric approach.
• Business viability: a combined business approach should be considered to secure the good’s success.
• Technology possibility: technology should be seen as an indispensable component of the new product development process.

13. Why is design thinking important?

Design thinking is a proven and problem-solving process that any business can apply to achieve significant results. Design thinking joins creative and critical thinking that enables information and ideas to be organized, arrangements to be made, situations to be developed, and knowledge to be gained.

14. Who introduced design thinking?

IDEO is usually credited with inventing the phrase “design thinking” and the practice. In fact, design thinking has extensive roots in a global discussion that has been releasing for decades.

15. What are design thinking tools?

Here are 10 Useful Online Tools For Design Thinking

1. Zoom
2. Typeform
3. Creatlr
4. MakeMyPersona
5. Userforge
6. Ideaflip
7. Boords
8. POP
9. Mockingbird
10. Pingpong

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