Design Thinking Challenge

Elham Raslan
Nov 4 · 2 min read
Source: https://thei4group.com/design-thinking/

Moving on with the final ‘Capstone 1’ project preparations. We were asked to apply creative thinking towards a problem that currently exists.
A group of four ladies was formed, 3 of which were used to each other in many projects. When the fourth lady joined, we were worried that she doesn’t adapt or blend with the enthusiasm of the Group, the positive spirit on productivity was what we were mainly focusing on.
The session began with brainstorming ideas; each of us stated her issues or problems she seeks solutions for. We were juggling between managing financials, to choosing the daily outfit, to working mothers obstacles and how to figure babies issues from the way they scream, ending with what we have been thinking about since forever and has been discussed during the previous semester “Domestic Violence.”

Discussions started very positively, until I found that the main challenge is not only to come up with the perfect idea, In fact how to achieve a great result by dealing with different personalities, with different backgrounds, how to manage controversy and coordinate as a moderator in the middle to accomplish what we have in our minds.
Two of the ladies voted for a point, and the other two were contradicting the ideas proposed. I discovered that diplomacy could be played smartly in such situations.

We ran out of time arguing about different points; different ideas can sometimes distract rather than keeping us focused.
Post every idea furnished, we follow it with the surveys and researches we can implement, most of our ideas led us to medical cases which we lack experiences and backgrounds in. We finally agreed to stick to our foremost purpose, putting into consideration that we have to erase what we have built earlier effectively and to start from scratch.

The surprise that when we applied design thinking towards ‘Domestic Violence”, a complete fresh ideas started to flow and got us thrilled and excited to unite in concept, yet in methodology, to an extent we didn’t think of the next step “solutions” due to the number of questions/information anticipated narrowed the options down one clear point to target solutions.

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