Design Challenge - Discover, Ideate
Summary
Materials
Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments
- Organize into pairs and select a design challenge (10 minutes)
- Discover stage (10 minutes)
- Ideation stage (20 minutes)
- Select idea to prototype (5 minutes)
- Homework
Learning Objectives
Essential Knowledge
CRD-1.B.1
CRD-1.C.1 Effective collaborative teams practice interpersonal skills, including but not limited to:
- Communication
- Consensus building
- Conflict resolution
- Negotiation
CRD-2.E.1 A development process can be ordered and intentional, or exploratory in nature.
CRD-2.E.2 There are multiple development processes. The following phases are commonly used when developing a program:
- Investigating and reflecting
- Designing
- Prototyping
- Testing
CRD-2.E.3 A development process that is iterative requires refinement and revision based on feedback, testing, or reflection throughout the process. This may require revisiting earlier phases of the process.
CRD-2.E.4 A development process that is incremental is one that breaks the problem into smaller pieces and makes sure each piece works before adding it to the whole.
CRD-2.F.1 The design of a program incorporates investigation to determine its requirements.
CRD-2.F.2 Investigation in a development process is useful for understanding and identifying the program constraints, as well as the concerns and interests of the people who will use the program.
CRD-2.F.3 Some ways investigation can be performed are as follows:
- Collecting data through surveys
- User testing
- Interviews
- Direct observations
CRD-2.F.4 Program requirements describe how a program functions and may include a description of user interactions that a program must provide.
CRD-2.F.5 A program's specification defines the requirements for the program.
CRD-2.F.6 In a development process, the design phase outlines how to accomplish a given program specification.
CRD-2.F.7 The design phase of a program may include:
- Brainstorming
- Planning and storyboarding
- Organizing the program into modules and functional components
- Creation of diagrams that represent the layouts of the user interface
- Development of a testing strategy for the program
Details
1. Form pairs and select a design challenge (10 minutes)
- Organize groups as you choose – allow them to select their partner, select partners randomly "out of a hat" or with another random selection process, or you can organize groups purposefully by matching students that you feel need to work together.
- You can use the Group Generator program to randomly sort students.
- Have teams select their design challenge - display the list of challenges and let students select, or assign the challenges randomly by selecting them "out of a hat" or with another random selection process.
2. Discover Stage (10 minutes)
- Research your users' career and activities; make notes of:
- Procedures or actions that they must complete.
- Daily routines.
- Anything noteworthy that would help you decide how you can help him/her.
- Define the problem you want to solve with your app, program, or device.
3. Ideation (20 minutes)
- Brainstorm every possible solution you can imagine.
- Focus on quantity rather than quality.
- Do not place judgment on your ideas; share any idea you have.
- Do not stop after five ideas because you think you have one that will work; generate as many ideas as possible.
- Explore ideas for all types of computing innovations - apps, programs, and devices.
4. Select one idea to prototype (5 minutes)
- Teams should look at all of their ideas and decide which idea they want to prototype.
- Teams also need to decide what type of computing innovation they will prototype - a device or program; if it is an app, for what type of device (e.g., apple watch, phone, laptop).
- If they are unable to finish before class ends, they need to finalize their decision for homework.
5. Homework
Complete the Prototyping Prep Homework page.