Content Critiques are intended to provide you with space to engage some of our course readings in a bit more depth. In particular, they complement readings that may not be directly applicable to design work. Reading about design, for instance, will not necessarily describe a process or method that you can experiment with as you work on design projects. Such a reading may simply try to distinguish design from other things in the world like science, and this is important. What makes something a design project instead of a scientific one or an artistic one?

A fundamental assumption in this course is that you will do better design work if you have a deeper understanding of design as such, and these content critiques are designed to contribute to that understanding.

At this point, you’ve read three additional texts about design thinking: 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process (Dam & Siang, 2017), Design Thinking 101 (Gibbons, 2016), and Principles of Service Design Thinking (2017). In this second critique, pick one important core idea from one of the texts and write a 300-500 word document consisting of the following:

Summarize the idea you have chosen.

Explain what the author means with the idea.

Critique or discuss the idea and express your opinion/view of it.

In order to get full points for the assignment, your submission must include all three of these elements and it must be submitted on time.

Links

Gibbons, S. (July 31, 2016) Design thinking 101. Retrieved from https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-thinking/

Dam, R., & Siang, T. (2017). 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process. Retrieved from https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-stages-in-the-design-thinking-process

The Principles of Service Design Thinking -Building Better Services. (2017). Retrieved from https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/the-principles-of-service-design-thinking-building-better-services