Collaborative Capstone I
Collaborative Capstone I introduces the design thinking process, focusing on user empathy, ethnographic research, and synthesizing insights to define design opportunities within an interdisciplinary team.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Apply an iterative design thinking process on an interdisciplinary team.
Frame a challenge at an appropriate level for design exploration.
Empathize with a broad range of stakeholders to understand needs through the ethnographic method.
Synthesize raw learnings into opportunities for design.
Communicate effectively, both visually and orally.
Demonstrate constructive collaboration behaviors— creative critique, balancing independent work with group work, and knowing when to get an outside opinion.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapDeclared in the MS Design + Innovation
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- Declared in the MS Design + Innovation
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.83 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2022: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
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Topics
- Design thinking process: exploration, empathy, and definition
- Ethnographic research and synthesis of insights
- Visualization, desirability, feasibility, and viability
- Design thinking behaviors: ethics, critique, and storytelling
Skills
- Applying iterative design thinking in interdisciplinary teams
- Framing challenges for design exploration
- Conducting ethnographic research to understand stakeholder needs
- Synthesizing research findings into design opportunities
- Visual and oral communication
- Constructive collaboration and creative critique
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