U101: The Design Thinking Blog

Design thinking for educators

I stumbled upon a great IDEO initiative that introduces design thinking to schools and educational institutions in the form of a toolkit. How design thinking is used on a social level is demonstrated in many fascinating stories and case studies.

I particularly liked the case study on educational game design. It is very relevant to Block 3 in U101 Design Thinking. A key learning from reading the story is engaging in iterative design in the design process and testing your designs with all stakeholders.

http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com

d.School Set of Cards

Matthew Shears, a former T307 student, directed my attention to a set of cards produced by Stanford University's d.School (Design School) and similar to the U101 Welcome Pack cards.

The cards are more wordy than the U101 cards, and similar to IDEO's innovation cards in that they outline the process of design thinking. Nevertheless, I agree with Matthew who found them inspiring.

d.School Design Thinking Cards

GameGame

I found a great Blog about how to design Games: a game to design games, in fact. This could be a nice welcome box component together with a first task of designing and playing a game collaboratively.

http://gamegame.blogs.com

I got this link from a blog entry that reported about the design of a game to design products. Maybe we can design a game to support design thinking with this game?