Design Thinking for Innovation

Discuss with the students about their likes and dislikes, about their hobbies.

•         Sketch their liking in Padlet App.
•         Promise them that if they follow the classes and perform all the assignments end of the course they will be a better student
•         Divide them into groups according to their field of interest.

OUTPUT: Ice Breaking, Understanding the students and forming groups  

DURATION: 60mins

ASSIGNMENT: Pick up Best designed products/ objects around them which they feel is good and ask them to list down the reason or write a paragraph about it. And submit it Padlet

Part 1: Discussion on the Assignment submitted on the  previous day

•         Part 2: Common interaction
•         Part 3: Meeting groups

OUTPUT: Group Interaction.  Trigger their observation skills.

DURATION:  60mins

ASSIGNMENT: Small exercise on creating, making, sketching objects about what they like.

Part 1: Discussion on the Assignment submitted on the  previous day

•         Part 2: Discussion on  why certain products looks attractive –

E.g.: Car has its own shape, colour, proportion of headlight etc. Series characters, pen, pencil that they use daily.  Floor mate has got texture that has a purpose of texture to the functionality. Soap that they use

OUTPUT: Understanding the elements of design – Line, Shape, texture, colour, space, form and value.

 DURATION:  60mins

ASSIGNMENT:  Collect objects which you feel is a bad design and try to list down the solutions.

Part 1: Discussion on the Assignment submitted on the  previous day

•         Part 2:  An activity on writing using the opposite hand . Eg. If the child is right hand person, he/she has to write using left hand 

OUTPUT: To give an essence of Empathy – Research the  Users’ Needs

DURATION:  90-120mins 

ASSIGNMENT:  Be like the Personality for a day . Eg if the kid wants to develop a product for blind people – then blind fold yourself to understand the pain that they will go through.And identify the pain that kid would have experienced – to validate the Observation done on the previous day.

Part 1:Ask them to write down the problem statement . and discuss further on that.

•         Part 2: Discuss a common problem – Current scenario – Covid 19 (HCWs fighting in front end ) and come up with a problem statement

OUTPUT: To understand how to define the initial problem statement.

DURATION: 90-120mins 

ASSIGNMENT: Choose a problem or product to take up the further courses . Brainstorm with the family and highlight the Top three problem statements

Part 1:   Present the problem statement with the team .

•         Part 2:  Ideate on  ideas to make a video game that teaches you concepts of magnetism

OUTPUT: Ideation with sketching 

DURATION:  60-90mins

ASSIGNMENT : Ideation on the personal topic chosen.Sketching/doodling/etc 

Part 1: Presenting the ideas /solutions. ·        

 Part 2: How to choose the idea! Brainstorm with students on how to carry milk packets from      ground floor to 3rd floor and cumulatively help them choose one best solution .

OUTPUT: Selecting one option from the ideas generated.

DURATION:  60-90mins

ASSIGNMENT :Choose the best solution from ideas sketched .

Part 1: Let students present their chosen best idea 

•         Part 2:  Ideate with student and choose a solution on “a tool that allows you to open doors hands free”

      Part 3 : Interact with children on material exploration . ask them to pick up objects of different materials and discuss the properties of materials used. 

OUTPUT:  Prototyping 

DURATION:  90mins 

ASSIGNMENT : Explore ideas on Prototyping  for the individual topics 

 Part 1: Presenting the initial prototyping ideas      

      Part 2: Asking students how cars are made, toys are made, jewels made.Tools

      Part 3: Session on tools for Prototyping. 

OUTPUT: Steps, techniques  and tools

DURATION:  90mins 

ASSIGNMENT: Start  Prototyping for the individual topic 

Part 1: Presenting initial Prototypes .

•         Part 2: Exchanging ideas . Discussing what are the other ways to make the same prototype made by the students and takina tour in warehouse showing machines and equipments used for prototyping 

      Part3: Introduction to Tinker cad

OUTPUT:  Digital Prototyping methods 

DURATION:  60- 90mins 

ASSIGNMENT : Exploring TinkerCad online software

Part 1: Presenting the work done by them and clarifying if  doubts on Tinker cad software·

         Part 2: Discussing 3D printing and its benefits – Asking them how game boards and Pawns in the game  are made. What has the manufacturer done before the huge number of pawns are manufactured ?

OUTPUT: Introduction to 3D printing , Laser cutting machine 

DURATION:  60-90mins

ASSIGNMENT: Final prototype making  and testing of the same. And list down the observation

Part 1: Presenting the testing result of the prototype made 

•         Part 2: Discussing the gaps 

      Part 3:  Discuss on how to improve on a normal dustbin to make it into one that can be  kept inside the house and does not stink and fill the gaps . How to take good feedback .

OUTPUT: Importance of testing 

DURATION:  60-90mins 

ASSIGNMENT : Improve the prototype and make a better model addressing the gaps in the testing /; 

(For next day – a session on how to cook without fire ,hence few ingredients can be asked to keep it ready for the same)

Part 1: Let everyone prepare food without fire – Fruits salad or sandwich etc. Where the students will have to take pictures of each stage and post it in Padlet . And they have to present the food differently with a story . 

•         Part 2: Discussion on why documentation is important. / How interestingly we present things. 

OUTPUT: Importance of documenting / 

DURATION:  60-90mins

ASSIGNMENT: Prepare a dish and make a video showing a dish is prepared from start to finish. Can combine the video in Video Collage App.

Part 1: Feedback on the videos made 

•         Part 2: Asking them if they were given a chance to re-design the progress card , how would it be ? Leading the discussion to portfolio making. 

      Part 3: Interaction with Design Expert

OUTPUT: Discussion on Portfolio Making 

DURATION:  60-90mins 

ASSIGNMENT: Document the entire 14 Days work

Part 1:Feedback (by other students)on Documentation along with the portfolio.

•         Part 2: Feedback of the entire Course 

OUTPUT: Concluding the session , Giving them point of contact 

DURATION:  90-120mins 

ASSIGNMENT: Asking them to send their design to BFF so that their models can be made and sent