Design Thinking

Learning Objectives 

• Apply design thinking to infrastructure for sustainability 
• Recognize how to improve design by thinking like the user

Agenda

1. Design Survey
2. IDEO video
3. Slides - Stresses, human feel to city, biophilia, 311 
4. Activity - Empathize
5. Complete Assignment 

Input on Design

Survey Links to an external site.

IDEO Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkb6vfKMI4 Links to an external site.Watch 0 - 11:45 minutes.

While watching the video, think about how this design-thinking process could work for designing infrastructure. What would that look like? What does design-thinking have to do with user? 

Design Thinking

Slides Links to an external site.

Activity 

• Take 5 minutes to read through your notes from the interviews and your experience 
• Write down the top 3 things you learned
• Share your notes with your neighbor (10 minutes) 
• We will repeat this process at least 5 times

Based on what you learned, redesign your solution to the transit system. What additional recommendations can you make now. How does your recommendation change. 

In Class Assignment 

Update your prosed solution to the transit system based on the experiences and interviews you learned from your classmates. Submit your changes here. 

Assignment 

1. Submit your updated transit system recommendations.
2. Take the survey Links to an external site.
3. Watch 30 mins of William Whyte's classic study on small urban places Links to an external site..
4. Spend time working on your flow project.