Laura H

Well when I started looking up articles I thought I had found the perfect one and then to my surprise everyone else had also found the same article. So I decided to do a little more digging on some articles on human-centered design and I would this article by Nick Babich on the UXPlanet.org. He talks about the “4 Principles of Human-Centered Design”

Focus upon the people:

As the designer when need to remember that real people will be using this product and that it needs to best fit their needs now ours. He then talks about a few points to always remember to think about through out the process. “Who will using the product?” “And in what context”. I feel that is a really good thing to remember us about because I feel that it is very easy to lose track of the main point in making the product .

2.Find the right problem:

Babich talks about the designer or the design team needing to find the root of the problem. There are two types of problems and they are the fundamental problem, being the root problem and then the symptoms problem which is still a problem but it will not fix the bigger picture. But the find out what is the fundamental problem you must conduct research with the people this product is for. I like they he states the better your research is the more time you will same in the project as a whole.

3.Think of everything as a system:

Don’t only look at one part, to make a good design you have to think of the end product. They then give a really go example of why this is so important: think about using and app on your phone, everything is going great but if you have a problem with on part of the app over and over it will making the rating of the app go down on how well it works.

4.Always test your design decisions:

No matter how well you or your team may think the product works, you have to try it out with real people and get their real feedback on what is working and what isn’t working. So that you can go back and try to fix those problems.

I feel that this article does a great job of breaking down the basics behind human-centered design, so they they are easy to remember and also easy to apply.

Laura Holifield

ARTC 1302 Palak Modi   Design Thinking

In my article Prince Pal talks about what design thinking is and what the process of design thinking is. He also does a great job of talking about why design thinking is so important in our current time and why it will continue to only grow as time goes on. The article talks “Design vs Design Thinking” and puts the basic idea of design into a new perspective.

He goes really in depth to explain why design thinking is so important to all most everything we will do in our job. He quotes a slogan that many people say” innovate or die”. This quote works great with the idea of design thinking. The fact that every job wants you to have design think because it shows that you are an innovated person who is ready to further that business. The world is constantly changing and if you can change with it you will be left hide in the job field, no matter what job it may be.

Design thinking has a five stages process that is simple and easy to follow. Step one is to empathize, which means to learn your audience and what they are wanting to gain in the end. Step two is the define, you need to see what are the needs and wants of your audience customer, so you can best meet those needs. Step three is ideate, start brainstorming of what you can show to the audience that best conveys what they are wanting, this where you have to step out of the normal and become the innovative person you need to be. Step four is prototype, put together a representation of what you have brainstormed from what they have told you in past steps. Last step is to test, which is showing your ideas to your audience/custom to see if you have created what they have imaged. If it is not what they want it is easy to go back to step three and start brainstorming again.

The design and design thinking, which I did not even really think about until after reading this article. Design falls under basic human intelligence. Which means every human weather they know it or not is creative and has the ability to design, but what most don’t realize is the it is not all about looks, which is where design thinking comes into play. Design thinking is a process in which a person is taking, to perfectly craft something to convey a big picture to and audience of some type.

Over all this article covers design thinking in a great way that is easy to understand and comprehend. Pal talks about why design thinking is so important in today’s jobs and why it is a growing need. It gives all the steps with great example for each so you can understand. Design and design thinking the way he presents it to the write is really innovated. Over all the article is great for explains what design thinking is.