SCAMPER is an acronym used in creativity and Lateral Thinking to stimulate creative thought. You can use the mnemonic SCAMPER not only for idea generation, but to trigger different methods of improving processes. 1. Substitute – is there a customer…
This is week 6 of the course I am taking on design. Week 6 focused on aesthetics in design. So why do aesthetics matter, especially when concerned with process design? Aesthetics matter for the following reasons: We, as humans, value…
This is week 5 of the course I am taking on design. Week 5 focused on concept testing. The purpose of concept testing is to determine if we are meeting user needs. There are two primary methods of concept testing –…
This is week 4 of the course I am taking on design. Week 4 focused on narrowing down the list of potential concepts and creating prototypes. A key method of performing this winnowing is the “Concept Selection Matrix.” In this…
This is week 3 of the course I am taking on design. Week 3 focused on turning user needs into design concepts. Design concepts are a visual representation of a solution. There are four elements to a good concept: 1.…
This is week 2 of the course I am taking on design. Week 2 focused on problem definition and user needs. My first takeaway was the Kano framework. This was proposed by Noriaki Kano and shows the four different types…
