Design+Thinking
EID100 • Week 8
Icon: Björn Andersson
Announcements
- Final exam (April 20 @ 8am, TRS1147/9
- Group registrations: eid100.com/group.php
- #Module6 due today
Design & Thinking Official Trailer
What's involved?
Who can achieve it?
DESIGN THINKING
A focused approach
Human-centred
Empathy vs. Rationality
Application > Thinking
Trial & Error (with customers)
Usable vs. Useful
Design Thinking Tactics
- Make a profile of your ideal user
- Create a story of the user experiencing the problem
- Insert your solution and play back the story
- Simplicity is sophistication
- Design from the inside outwards
Eero WiFi mesh
Æsthetics
Branch of philosophy dealing with art.
Critically thinking about creation and its merits or impacts.
form + function
"MoreSky" by Aldana Ferrer Garcia
Matthew Reimer's Tractor
DRM
Waterfall Production
We have ideas...
But what makes a good one?
MVP
How do we determine the minimum?
What makes it viable?
When is it a product?
Are you solving a specific problem
or trying to be everything for everyone?
Image: Marvel Blog
What's your angle?
Digital Prototyping
What does the digital space afford us in terms of prototyping?
Wireframes
Interactive Mockups
Interop Design
Photo: Ben Melbourne
Apps
Native vs. Web App
Functions
Notifications
Offline data
Platform
1
Stickiness
Freemium
