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MIS20090

Academic Year 2024/2025

Design Thinking (MIS20090)

Subject:
Management Information Systems
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
2 (Intermediate)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Mr Allen Higgins
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

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 Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Participation in Learning Activities: Set homework activities e.g. comments on a reading; comments on a listening exercise; protocol design and application of a research method for gathering data. Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No
25
No
Group Work Assignment: Studio work - a design thinking simulation run in-class over 6 weeks in small groups. Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7 Graded No
15
No
Assignment(Including Essay): Present a term paper describing an original research project defined by the individual student and conducted during term. Week 11, Week 12 Graded No
60
No

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

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Thurs 13:00 - 14:50