The YEA participants attended a full-day design thinking course on 29 July, where they learnt valuable and comprehensive skills on how to design and manage a project.
In the morning, our design thinking course trainer, Aki, introduced the concept of design thinking to the participants, and they did a design thinking sprint together. The four phases of design thinking were explored: empathy, define, ideate, and prototype. The students spent time learning the concept of empathy through a fun exercise to gather information and emotions on the pain points of their target audience. Then, they presented to the other groups on their craziest, most beloved, most inefficient, and most reasonable solutions to conceptualise the phases of ideate and prototype.
In the afternoon, the students continued their journey of design thinking. The concept of pain point was reiterated, which prompted the students to rethink why a certain action is taken by a group of people, the processes that led to such action, and how to choose which part of the process they should focus their solutions on. They learned different types of observation and how they can gather information through various means, such as interviews and questionnaires. We look forward to seeing the project ideas from students generated using the design thinking skills they learned on the day.
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