MIS20090 Design Thinking

Academic Year 2021/2022

Design Thinking for Digital Projects equips you to act as an effective problem finder, solver and designer of human-centred solutions. You will acquire practical experience in user facilitation, requirements gathering, and collaborative design idea generation for human-centred design initiatives. Coursework is built around practical field studies of people encountering challenges and everyday problems.

These learning experiences will prepare you contribute to the requirements, analysis and design stages of digital projects. This class is relevant to a career path in product management.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students will have:
* Conducted original research into a social, industry or firm context and established the nature of a design need;
* Experienced facilitation techniques for revealing insights in multi-disciplinary teams;
* Knowledge and understanding of digital prototyping and mock-up tools.

You will be able to:
* Identify, create and capture descriptive user requirements for digital design relevant to specific business contexts;
* Formulate a design element and comment critically on its development, implementation and adoption;
* Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the field study and design methods used to develop digital systems.

Indicative Module Content:

This module connects user-centred design principles, designing requirements and requirements design for digital systems. Practical facilitation skills are developed using Lego Serious Play (LSP). Classes employ contemporary idea generation and experimentation techniques using the IDEO Design Kit [IDEO.org, 2015]. The module gives you the opportunity to learn to use popular Wireframe and Mockup Tools for digital design. A group project is organized along the lines of the ‘Sprint’ method [Knapp et al., 2016].

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24

Specified Learning Activities

60

Autonomous Student Learning

36

Total

120

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, workshops and seminars. Group project and poster presentation. Reflective journal. Independently produced term paper/research paper. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Studio Examination: Project poster presentation. This involves presenting a researched design component employing visual and verbal media. Varies over the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

20

Essay: Research essay and Reflection Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

60

Continuous Assessment: Homework assignments Varies over the Trimester n/a Graded No

20


Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Formative feedback on the project offered as it is developed throughout the module. Formative feedback on research essay offered as it is developed throughout the module. Summative feedback on project given at time of presentation. Summative feedback on research essay and reflection given at end of term.

Name Role
Ms Ruth Campion Lecturer / Co-Lecturer