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I watched the following LinkedIn Learning video on Design Thinking by Turi McKinley.

This course provided invaluable insights into the user-centered problem-solving approach, emphasizing collaboration, customer journey mapping, concept creation, and prototyping. It deepened my understanding of design thinking and equipped me with practical problem-solving skills.

I learned to lead design thinking efforts, set goals, and engage diverse personalities effectively. The course fostered creative collaboration, guiding me through planning, research, and concept creation, alongside introducing essential prototyping techniques.

Furthermore, the course facilitated active participation through a dedicated LinkedIn Group, allowing for dynamic discussions and knowledge sharing among participants.

In summary, this course deepened my understanding of design thinking and helped me develop practical problem-solving skills

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In this LinkedIn Course, I learned what design thinking is and how to implement that mindset to help design teams. In addition, I also learned how to manage creative flow and what roles are required for success. To be a good design-thinking leader, constant planning, search, and concept creation are essentials to make designs a reality. Overall, the strategies that Turi covered opened up my mind to be a better leader and how to create change in an organization. CertificateOfCompletion_Learning Design Thinking Lead Change in Your Organization

Design thinking in terms of today’s business world is defined as a making-based approach to problem solving that is rooted in human empathy and collaborating in teams. It is designed to be used for solving complicated and complex problems that do not have one straightforward solution. The end goal of design thinking is to ultimately bring something to life, to a market, or to people or a community. The best leaders understand that this way of thinking is a mindset instead of a process with cookie-cutter steps to follow. It is an integrative and empathy-based approach that leads to success and differentiation that many companies are hoping to strengthen in their organizations.

There are four strategies that good design thinking leaders are able to do that will develop their design thinking leadership. I found these strategies to be really insightful. The first is being able to consistently frame the problem. Use both the details available and concepts that are later explored in order to reframe how the details are being approached. This will allow you to have multiple perspectives in solving a problem. Second, is to be experimental and welcome failure and small wins. The third strategy is to communicate ideas clearly in order to be affective to your peers. It will be more memorable this way and they are more likely to understand them. Lastly, you must define your role clearly as a leader and encourage collaboration as well as model it, in order to balance the vision and progress of team thinking. Set good examples within your organization, and your peers will more likely mirror that behavior.

However, since design thinking is a non-linear approach to problem solving, it can create ambiguity and anxiety. Strategies for managing ambiguity can include focusing on iterating ideas, recognizing that each iteration may be different, maintaining an optimistic attitude, and avoiding overcontrol. It’s important to identify signs of exhaustion, overcontrol, big picture paralysis, and step reliance early on in order to redirect the team’s energy.

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In this training, I learned about design thinking about creative collaboration. These list of objectives were defining and leading design thinking, implementing a design thinking mindset, aligning the design team, managing creative flow, guiding collaboration, generating hypotheses, and prototyping fast and often. This is helpful with my critical thinking skills when thinking about issues and challenges a project could face, then applying them to a framework in order to solve the problems.
This relates to my MIS 3535 course in project management because the process of defining issues, defining designs, and being creative to generate solutions could require iteration, thinking different approaches and collaboration among teams and stakeholders.

Throughout this course, I learned about the mindset of Design Thinking: “a user-centered way of solving problems.” The lessons gave me advice on how to become a good design thinking lead, regarding goal setting and managing people of diverse skillsets. Turi McKinley, instructor for this course, discussed extensive strategies used in Design-thinking, from collaboration techniques to service blueprints. I look forward to implementing these methods in organizations alongside what I have learned from the Lead Global Digital Projects MIS 3535 course regarding become a change agent.

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I completed the LinkedIn Learning course, Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization. I learned a great deal about human-centered design, as well as how to lead teams effectively. Additionally, this course taught me about design thinking and how to implement within a team and company environment. Lastly, this course provided many resources to help a team think creatively and solve goals and challenges. 

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This course did a great job of emphasizing the importance of user-centric design. Design thinking is a user-centered way of solving problems. Through this course, I learned about the basics of design thinking and the process of making a design into a reality. This course highlighted the importance of change management in effectively tackling barriers to integrate the design mindset into an organization’s culture.

Cybersecurity by User Experience Design

During this semester, we learned lots of aspects related the user design in MIS3506. Our professor, Munir, taught us the importance of user understanding and how it relates to your design.

At the end of semester, I researched some trends for cybersecurity that cyber security specialist can apply to their products/services. I’m interested to be cybersecurity specialist as so this project helped me understand UX design methods as security. I looked into:

• what should be protected?
• security pillars and trends
• privacy by design
• the connection to norman’s concepts

Results:

• Some available security trends such as focusing on microeconomics, maximizing user privacy, privacy policies
• Norman’s concepts: visibility, feedback, affordances, mapping, constraints, consistency.

Here’s the attached presentation of the project: Security by UX

 

Through Learning Design Thinking, I learned that human-centered design is crucial to get the full experience right for the end-user. Design Thinking requires the developing team to have deep empathy and constantly communicate with the end-users. This allows the team to provide a functional feature to the client step by step and improvise as it requires. Design Thinking is fluid and changes as the product develops.

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