DESIGN

THINKING

for Social Innovation and Inventive Problem Solving

FIVE PHASES OF DESIGN THINKING

1. Empathy is being sensitive to or emotionally understand an individual’s feelings.

2. Empathy can make a difference to solve problems and improve circumstances.
1. A great definition of your problem statement will guide you to kick start the ideation process.

2. Advance your design thinking by defining your problem.
1. A brainstorming session where participants gather with open minds to generate diverse ideas to address a problem statement.

2. Expand your solution space using creativity and innovation.
1. Prototyping allows you to test your ideas and improve on them.

2. Create a simple model of a proposed solution to validate or test your ideas.
1. Generate user feedback based on the prototypes developed to understand your users.

2. Testing leads to insights that change the way you define your problem statement.