| Subject Area | Software and Information System Engineering |
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| Semester | Semester 9 – Fall |
| Type | Elective |
| Teaching Hours | 4 |
| ECTS | 6 |
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- What is design thinking
- Problems in design processes and how these are addressed through design thinking
- What are the benefits of design thinking to entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship?
- Human centred design processes
- How design thinking contributes to more effective design of products, services, and processes
- What is a empathy
- Empathy processes, deploying observation, engagement with users, experiencing the user environment
- What is the definition of a problem statement
- Processes for effectively building a problem statement that accurately reflects actual and not perceived needs
- What is ideation
- Ideation processes for the generation of a multitude of ideas for addressing a given problem
- What is prototype design
- Processes for building effective prototypes that, when deployed by users, can generate effective feedback on the suitability and effectiveness of a proposed solution
- What is evaluation
- Evaluation processes that produce effective feedback that reflects the user’s experience and feelings when being exposed to a proposed solutions
- Design thinking cases
- Design thinking projects
Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
- Understand design thinking and related concepts
- Understand the applications of design thinking in entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship towards designing products, services, and processes that more effectively address user needs
- Understand design thinking approaches and steps such as empathy, problem statement definition, ideation, prototyping, evaluation
- Be able to apply design thinking principles and approaches in practice in human centred design activities that can bring change to the industry and society