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What are the Design thinking process?

Design thinking has five phases which are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test.

Phase 1: Empathizing

Empathize: refers to the work you do to understand people within the context of your design challenge. You put much effort to understand the way they do things, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about a given issue, and what is meaningful to them (dschool-old Stanford , 2010). As a design thinker, one need to understand and empathize with the audience. This will be done by observing their behaviors, engaging with them to know well their problem and collect information, and understanding their problem better.

Phase 2: Define

This is a phase of design thinking where there is a description of problem to help in finding strategical solutions (Siang, 2019). At this phase, the researcher digs deeper into the problem where one develops the problem statement. This is where the researcher understands well the problem and identify its root causes. Also, the researcher identify possible challenge faced to help in developing solutions.

Phase 3: Ideate

According to (Dam, 2018), ideate refers to the brainstorming stage where the researcher find different solution to the identified problem. While brainstorming, one come up with various ideas that helps find solutions to the problem. Ideating involves generate various solutions to the identified problem.

Phase 4: Prototype

Prototype refers to the design thinking phase where the researcher find the best solution and make a sample that is shown people to be tested (Teo, 2018). The sample should be clear to end user in order to facilitate provision of feedback

Phase 5: Test

In the test phase, one test the sample by seeking feedback from the end users (Rikke, 2018). With the above four phases, one need to make sure that s/he gained empathy with end user. This helps in getting enough and reliable feedback

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