Abstract
Under the COVID-19 epidemic, faced with the problem of ensuring the quality of teaching online, Design Thinking, as a design teaching and evaluation tool for interdisciplinary collaborative courses, has attracted much attention. The research purpose is to explore the performance and preference of four popular design thinking methods in interdisciplinary online courses. This study took an intensive online course as the case study, which developed curriculum based on Brainstorming, Crazy8, User Journey Mapping and Storyboarding. Quantitative evaluation and Evaluation Grid Method were adopted to compare participants’ performance and preference of these four design thinking methods. The results revealed that, compared with Crazy 8, Brainstorming which has the characteristics of open communication and out-of-convention ideas may be the reason why industrial design students are more prominent in Flexibility and Elaboration. By contrast, compared with User Journey Mapping, Storyboarding performed better in Originality and Elaboration than others. This study provides an educational scientific reference of design thinking methods and expects to help educators improve the design curriculum in the future.
Keywords
interdisciplinary education, cooperative design, learning performance assessment, information engineering, industrial design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.05.128
Citation
Li, J., Liu, S., Ho, M.,and Li, Z.(2021) Assessing learning performance and using preference of design thinking methods in graduate interdisciplinary online course, in Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Pan, L., Börekçi, N.A.G.Z., Zhang, Y. (eds.), Learn X Design 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education, 24-26 September, Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.05.128
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Assessing learning performance and using preference of design thinking methods in graduate interdisciplinary online course
Under the COVID-19 epidemic, faced with the problem of ensuring the quality of teaching online, Design Thinking, as a design teaching and evaluation tool for interdisciplinary collaborative courses, has attracted much attention. The research purpose is to explore the performance and preference of four popular design thinking methods in interdisciplinary online courses. This study took an intensive online course as the case study, which developed curriculum based on Brainstorming, Crazy8, User Journey Mapping and Storyboarding. Quantitative evaluation and Evaluation Grid Method were adopted to compare participants’ performance and preference of these four design thinking methods. The results revealed that, compared with Crazy 8, Brainstorming which has the characteristics of open communication and out-of-convention ideas may be the reason why industrial design students are more prominent in Flexibility and Elaboration. By contrast, compared with User Journey Mapping, Storyboarding performed better in Originality and Elaboration than others. This study provides an educational scientific reference of design thinking methods and expects to help educators improve the design curriculum in the future.