Workshops: Nov 19-20, 2015
Presentation: Models of Innovation
Abstract
So you're an engineer and you've been introduced to Design Thinking. How's that matter to you? Jon will share his story around learning about and applying Design Thinking to his daily software development process, and talk about engineering practices through the lens of Design Thinking.
The following will be discussed from an engineering perspective:
- Why are we buliding it?
- Brainstorming
- Logging ideas
- Personal Kanban
- Empathy
- User empathy
- Customer Empathy
- "Can you LEARN first?"
- Prototyping
- Build to learn
- Understanding Fidelity Levels
- Writing tests in the context of Design thinking
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