Design Thinking Portfolio

Authors

Christine Ingersoll, Marshall UniversityFollow

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Description

Revised in August 2024, The Design Thinking Portfolio engages learners in the design thinking process by applying problem-based learning through team engagement. This nontraditional “textbook” has interactive fillable PDF forms that engage learners in creating an artifact that showcases their understanding of design thinking. The portfolio project starts with compiling existing problems that learners wish to tackle as they work across the spectrum of design thinking to sell their best solution in a team pitch. Learners use a design thinking mindset to solve a regional social or civic issue as social entrepreneurs. Coming together and sharing their own diverse backgrounds forces learners to think outside of their own views to create an open and innovative solution. The portfolio project introduces several professional tools needed to find the right problem to compile as many solutions as possible based on research, empathy maps, interviews, observations, identifying user needs and stakeholders, recognizing constraints, producing customer journey maps, and creating prototypes as evidence for the pitch. This portfolio will not only walk learners through the process but also serve as an artifact of the learner’s abilities to apply design thinking in evaluating complex problems.

ISBN

978-0-9837621-9-5

Publication Date

8-20-2021

Publisher

Marshall University Libraries

City

Huntington, W. Va.

Keywords

Design Thinking, Portfolio Project

Disciplines

Communication | Communication Technology and New Media | Mass Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Comments

Copyright © 2021 by Chris Ingersoll. This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 Published by Marshall University Libraries.

Recommended Citation

Ingersoll, Chris. Design Thinking Portfolio. Marshall University Libraries, 2021.