Design Thinking – Hamster Cage – Freshmen
Empathy, define, ideation, and prototyping for the ultimate hamster cage design.
The five phases to the design thinking process are:
Phase 1 - Empathize:
The objective of this lesson was to engage students with the empathizing phase of the design process. In order to define the problem, we need to ask why? Understanding and empathizing with the user brings us closer to that question, why? This ultimately lends itself to building a better product.
After reading the following fake news bulletin, students were divided into teams and
then asked to write down all of the things that a high school student would need in
their bedroom.
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then asked to write down all of the things that a high school student would need in
their bedroom.
See our Design Thinking page
In order to further engage students in the empathy process,
students created hamster profiles.
Phase 2 - Define:
Students were asked to list the needs of their hamster.
Phase 3 - Ideate:
On the Smart Board and then in assigned groups, students brainstormed via concept mapping. If I were a hamster, I would want...
Phase 4 - Prototype:
After the empathize, define, and ideation phase, students worked together in their individual teams to refine five directions.
Each team had to make two suggestions to their neighboring team's hamster cage.
Links to final team presentations:
Phase 5 - Test:
Once the hamster cages were prototyped, students presented and tested their creations to our Junior class. The Juniors then placed money (from the Bank Of Multimedia) on the best hamster cage design. The hamster cage with the most money would (in the real world) go into production.
Mr. Mayo
Ms. McCabe
Mr. Millette
Ms. Ellis
The next project will involve redefining the Rama Noodle experience. Stay tuned!
Our design thinking (problem solving) course is based on Stanford University's Design School (d school). The d school is a hub for innovators at Stanford. Students and faculty in engineering, medicine, business, law, the humanities, sciences, and education find their way here to take on the world’s messy problems together. We know that our students at BVT will have no problem tackling these problems too.
http://dschool.stanford.edu
"Design Thinking Projects and Challenges." Design Thinking Projects and Challenges. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 April 2015.
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