Megha Parmar

How to be a design king even if you don't have strong artistic background?--- Design thinking

Design thinking is philosophy to develop creative mindset even if you do not have a strong creative background. Design thinking can be broadly classified into following steps by which one can expertise creative mindset not over night but with constant practice.

• EMPATHIZE 

The first step in design thinking is to collect the information about the problems, requirements, expectations regarding the project. Here we take example of a website development, know about the requirements, problems faced by the users etc.

• DEFINE

After completing the above step make a list of the points you need to solve. The list should be such that it covers most problems, requirements and expectations.

• IDEATE

Now you have a list of questions of which you need to find a solution. Try out different ideas, make yourself think about the problems personally and find solutions. Make every possible effort to solve the question list prepared

• PROTOTYPE

After having a large number of solutions, choose solutions which can be executed and suit best for the problem. Bring the mind map points in the real world. As we took the example of website development, design the website according to the best possible solution.

• TEST

Last but not the least, test your product (website) by exposing it to the same community from whom you started the process of empathizing. Note down their reviews, repeat the whole process till required to develop the best product.

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