diploma project

Developing Design Thinking Toolkit for Schools

The objective was to create a design thinking toolkit for education; developed for children to get habituated with the design thinking process of design for change. The brief was studied through brainstorms, mind-maps, surveys, interviews and experimental research to understand the target audience.

The tool-kit is a deck of cards which speaks through images instead of words. Design thinking is a tool that empowers huge conglomerates, governments, systems and life in general. This is a practice which, besides solving problems as a curative measure, helps develop ideas so that problems are reduced to a minimal. Although design thinking is usually practiced by people exposed to design education, it may be cultivated from an earlier stage to create new meanings through interaction and rational thinking.

Various insights were drawn, which were conceptualised into prototypes and user-tested. Following a series of iterations a final version was prototyped.

class room project