Introduction to Design Thinking for Engineers

- Introduction to design thinking for [engineer - Tokyo Institute of Technology Engineering Design Projects - One of the authors, Mr. Yukinori Kaku, is a specially-appointed lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology College of Environmental and Social Science and Engineering. - Authors Shigenori Saito , Kei Sakamoto , Yoko Takeda , Seisuke Kaku , Takako Ouchi

• On p. 172, there is a column with a text that I saw on the Internet before and thought was very good.

  • When I was on the team of Art students and Tokyo Tech students, the first thing I and other art students felt was “language barrier”.

  • Art students use onomatopoeic and abstract words, but Tokyo Tech students try to make them concrete right away, which causes misunderstandings.
  • This style of communication works well within an art college because both parties understand that the words that come out of the idea generation stage are only “seeds. We allow each other to be less specific.
  • https://medium.com/titech-eng-and-design/美大生の感じたすれ違いと学び-2569c065a373
  • The second half is not listed?
  • It was published on p. 219.

  • Most art students work with a sense of “Something’s different.” when making things. - uncomfortable feeling.

• Appendix A is a very good collection of case studies of failures

  • overwhelming awareness of the parties involved
  • Make it messy anyway.
  • Diverse teamDiversity

• A Place to Generate Ideas

• It all starts with empathy.

• How to make [EDP

• Building a diverse team

• Understanding UsersUser Understanding

• Generating Ideas

• Build and verify things.

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