“Design Thinking Bootcamp Bootleg” by d school Stanford University is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Prototype stage:
“Traditionally prototyping is thought of as a way to test functionality. But prototyping is used for many reasons, including these (non-mutually-exclusive) categories:
• Empathy gaining: Prototyping is a tool to deepen your understanding of the design space and your user, even at a pre-solution phase of your project.
• Exploration: Build to think. Develop multiple solution options.
• Testing: Create prototypes (and develop the context) to test and refine solutions with users. • Inspiration: Inspire others (teammates, clients, customers, investors) by showing your vision” (d school Stanford University, 2020).
Activity
In this activity, you will do Gut check.
Step one: Take five minutes and outline a plan to solve our original questions. Use the top five ideas from our Brainwrite activity in Module 4 to create the plan.
Original question from the Tiger Team: How does the administration address getting students excited about studying at GMU in the fall? What can Mason do immediately and when the students return?
Step two: What kinds of obstacles stand in your way of achieving your plan? Write your answer in the blog.
What kind of obstacles get in your way? Do you feel that you may need to revisit a previous stage? Write your answer in the reply box below.
d school Stanford University. (2020). Design Thinking Bootcamp Bootleg. Stanford d.School. https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/the-bootcamp-bootleg
Design Thinking e-learning module for GMU faculty 