1. My Three Key Learnings from Design Thinking:

•  Empathy: Empathy can be a useful way of solving problems. Listening to people and what they  have to say goes a long way.

•  Ideate: Brainstorming about ideas and thinking about them from a different perspective gives  you a real insight.

•  Don’t be afraid to fail: Failure makes you go on a different path and makes you doubt your ideas

2. My Mind Map:

3.  Reflection on how to apply Design Thinking to my workplace:  Design Thinking gave me insights on  how to make those sessions more fruitful. We had a brainstorm meeting during my second week of  taking this class. I told everyone to stand up and use post-it notes to make mind maps and help us with  our ideas. And it worked! Standing provides a more interactive environment than sitting and writing ideas  on a whiteboard made sessions more productive

4. Insight: Design Thinking made me want to share the ideas I learned in the course and how I could apply  it to improve our problem-solving processes. While we do already think of creative solutions for  problems, forming ideas, making prototypes etc help a lot in solving challenges.

Here is my list of Ideas:

•  Share my findings with colleagues.

•   Give a talk during a staff meeting about each of the steps in Design Thinking.

•  Interview readers to find out what they like and don’t like.

•   Make sketches for more prototypes.

5. Here are my ideas that I would further prototype and test:

•   Share my learnings with colleagues. At the end of our weekly production meeting, I could go  over one of each area that I learned about.

•   Make a list or write a summary of how to make brainstorming meetings more productive and  share it with the entire Marketing Division in one of our monthly meetings.


1 . My Three Key Learnings from Design Thinking : • Empathy : Empathy can be a useful way of solving problems . Listening to people and what they have to say goes a long way . • Ideate : Brainstorming about ideas and thinking about them from a different perspective gives you a real insight . • Do n’t be afraid to fail : Failure makes you go on a different path and makes you doubt your ideas 2 . My Mind Map : 3 . Reflection on how to apply Design Thinking to my workplace : Design Thinking gave me insights on how to make those sessions more fruitful . We had a brainstorm meeting during my second week of taking this class . I told everyone to stand up and use post - it notes to make mind maps and help us with our ideas . And it worked ! Standing provides a more interactive environment than sitting and writing ideas on a whiteboard made sessions more productive 4 . Insight : Design Thinking made me want to share the ideas I learned in the course and how I could apply it to improve our problem - solving processes . While we do already think of creative solutions for problems , forming ideas , making prototypes etc help a lot in solving challenges . Here is my list of Ideas : • Share my findings with colleagues . • Give a talk during a staff meeting about each of the steps in Design Thinking . • Interview readers to find out what they like and do n’t like . • Make sketches for more prototypes . 5 . Here are my ideas that I would further prototype and test : • Share my learnings with colleagues . At the end of our weekly production meeting , I could go over one of each area that I learned about . • Make a list or write a summary of how to make brainstorming meetings more productive and share it with the entire Marketing Division in one of our monthly meetings .