COLLABORATIVE CAPSTONE I

INTEREGR 941

Explore chosen opportunity area through prototyping, user testing, and iteration. Creation of final, high resolution design, with communication and launch plan for startup, product or service. Practice behaviors of design thinking - ethics, critique, and storytelling.

DS 650

Culminates design education through real-world challenges. Develops critical thinking, creativity, innovation for effective solutions. Emphasizes collaborative teamwork within multidisciplinary groups. Guides portfolio development, underscoring growth and versatility as a designer. Topics include defining problems through research, conceptualizing solutions, designing prototypes and interfaces, conducting user testing, and implementing designs.

DS 641

An empathetic, human-centered perspective that uses Design Thinking and draws from historical precedence and current research from a variety of fields to help solve complex and persistent problems such as student mental health awareness and lack of clean drinking water. Utilizes advanced design thinking techniques to enhance creative analysis and problem solving to address real-word problems with real-world constraints and the limitations of technology. Projects range from ways to improve everyday situations to community issues.

DS 341

Learn design thinking techniques to enhance creative analysis and problem solving. Directly apply those techniques to a variety of human centered design challenges. Innovate, prototype, and test designs that address real-word problems with real-world constraints and the limitations of technology. Projects range from ways to improve everyday situations to community issues.

DS/GENBUS 240

Design thinking is an iterative problem-solving process geared toward producing innovative solutions for complex and persistent problems in various fields and organizations. Its process, culture, and value system from both design and business point of views will be covered: Empathetic understanding of the end users, problem definition rooted in systems thinking, ideation with a strong emphasis on creativity, visualization and prototyping, testing rooted in a set of research methods, and finally, the importance of iteration in bringing about innovative solutions. The path from project to market will also be explored, with an understanding of how one might balance desirability, feasibility and viability.